RTP-area local music and culture

["Evan Rowe" <evanrowe AT fastmail.fm>]

We've already talked about it, Rob, but I'll chime in that I have the
15dB filters and am very happy with them in two exceptionally loud rock
bands and a marching band.  I can carry on a conversation at normal
levels when not playing.  They sound good.  They're more comfortable
than any other plugs I've used.  So consider the 15 dB, too.
Mine were made by Emtech labs and use the polyurethane material, I
think.  The silicone might be a little softer.
I can't really recommend Hatfield and Berrang, where my fitting was
done, because they weren't very friendly, gentle, or informative. 
Efficient, I guess, but not interested in me once they realized I wasn't
buying much from them.
My fitting was $30 (no exam, though), and the plugs were ~$130, though I
had a discount.  I'd buy them again, were I to lose them.
To the best of my knowledge, unless your job requires you to be exposed
to high SPLs regularly, you pretty much have to buy them yourself;
insurance won't help.
A little over a week ago I dropped one at Joe and Jo's (RIP) and
panicked for about fifteen minutes until I found it underneath a
barstool.  This is because I love them, I have been spoiled, and they
are not cheap.  I washed it, though.  What are you, Koegler, a savage?

Wearing earplugs is good for you!  (It never comes back.)

=ER



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----- Original message -----
From: "Koegler, Robert" <Koegler AT ncssm.edu>
To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:27:05 -0500
Subject: custom musician earplugs

So,  do any of you sport custom earplugs (ones where you have a mold
made of your ear canal, send them away and the plugs come back w/ little
replaceable sound baffles blocking 9, 15, 25dB)?  If so, what kind do
you have?  Where did you get fit for them?  How much did it all cost?
Did insurance cover any of it? How do you like them? 

 

I've worn disposable plugs for years, but I'm not really happy w/ them
and they fall out and when one fell out at Blue Cheer and my options
were going deaf from the very very loud 80's crunch metal guitar stack
or picking that little sucker up off the 506 floor, dusting it off and
jamming it back in my ear, I did the latter.  That act haunts my dreams
now as I can only imagine what lives on the 506 floor.

 

Whyfor Mr. Mullet have to play that crunchy 80's metal guitar sound when
late 60's sludge was what was called for?  Whyfor he do that?  Still
they rocked w/ much greatness.

 

RK

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