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[nN AAt e e]

> 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