[sdiy] Cutting rotary encoder shafts??

[harrybissell]

Sound levels have exposure limits... high decibels for a shorter period of time
is
the same as lower decibels and a longer exposure...

provided you don't pop your eardrums in the first minute...   ;^P

H^) harry    (needs to protect remaining hearing...)

nN AAt e e wrote:

> > Now how many of you wear earplugs at loud concerts ???
>
> the answers here will be biased... not many of the regulars aren't old farts
> :P
>     some one needs to write more about the sound properties of high decibles
> and feedback...
>     i saw a noise/experimental artist Prurient play a few weeks ago...
> [ quite similar to this http://blastitude.com/15/pg23.htm show, but it
> sounds like when i saw him he had more amps... and i counted six cabs... two
> 4x12s, one 2x12 and two huge PA speakers ] it was a small place but had
> enough side rooms and nooks for the sound to bounce around and over fill the
> area, at least two thirds of the people in the room had earplugs...
>     after the set, i had no problems at all; my ears weren't ringing or
> anything, which i thought was kind of weird after such an INTENSE set [about
> ten minutes, nonstop, and the volume never dropped, it was an amazing show]
>
>     but then the week after that show, i got to see Mission Of Burma play in
> a much larger club... average club size rock show... volume level was
> nowhere near as high and i was further away than the other show [for
> Prurient i was only about ten feet away from the amps... this one was
> probably forty]... after the show my ears were ringing...
>
>     some acoustic property stuff is crazy.
>
> - nate