Are you a working musician with some hearing loss or tinnitus? What do you do to protect your ears now?
I have mild hearing loss in one ear, extremely (to the point of insanity) protective over my ears and what’s left of them.
I worry about mixing down a track, but then often think of Brian Wilson who was deaf in one ear. I think there’s somebody who I can look up to.
I’m wondering what other musicians are doing to cope.
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…not only Brian Wilson but Ted Nugent and Phil Collins ( and of course, Beethoven) all have experience deafness though Beethoven lost most his hearing due lead toxicity from drinking water that were plumbed through lead pipes.
I lost some of my hearing myself. I missed the party bands I used to be on. Had things been different, I would have gotten inner ear monitors that would have protected my ears better from the amps.
If I was mixing a track, I would start with the softest track first then layer it after that turning down my ear phones as I would go along. Its a hazard of the profession…thats show biz.
More important than coping (I think) is making sure that you have really good custom made ear molds to prevent further damage. Noise induced hearing loss is not recoverable, and even the best medical treatment available is never going to get you back to where you were before the damage occurred,