agh i'm going deaf

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i didn't really know where exactly to post this.. its more of a funny story than a mixing dilemma but i'm hoping you guys will get a kick out of it.

so yesterday i recorded a song .. no big deal.. i spent about an hour on it and it turned out ok for doing everything in 1 or 2 takes.

tonight i finally got around to going and and poor man mastering it.. as i'm not very skilled at mastering.. i just do enough to get by..

it sounds fine.. so i go to the store and pop in the cd in my car stereo and stick the volume up to the 20 mark(which is pretty loud)..
i notice my song is pretty quiet even at this level so i adjust the volume way up until my speakers are distorting and it barely sounds loud enough here..

at this point i'm freaking out wondering how i could have made such a gross volume error..

i come back and push the RMS up and re-burn it..

volume at 20 in the car again.. but its no good.. its STILL WAY too quiet.

then i go back again to look at it and i realize its pushing a constant -9 RMS.

that's when it hits me .. i've been building a studio live room all day and using a gun that is loaded with .22 calibre bullets to shoot nails into concrete(it is VERY loud). on top of that i came right home and cranked my monitors up almost full blast.
i'm sure the super loud monitoring level didn't help much.. but i didn't notice as i was already half deaf.

needless to say.. i spent 2 hours trying to figure out what was wrong with my mix when all along i didn't even realize there was nothing wrong.. it was my ears :(

whats funny is it was actually a big sigh of relief that came out of me when i realized i just had some hearing loss :P i was thinking "oh great then i really am mixing this just fine, yay!"

let this be a lesson to us all.. don't forget the earplugs :(

heres to hoping my ears recover soon!
 
good luck with your ears :)

you know, the hair that vibrates in your ears that has something to do with picking up the sound, when there's loud noises, they kinda get flattened and blown down, but after some days, they prick back up. But after repeated abuse, the wont prick back up so easily.

at least i think thats how it works hehe
 
cillia i believe they're called...

i discovered i have tinnitus. I have to watch old simpsons episodes to fall asleep.
 
I sleep with a fan on (hot or not), just for the background noise....

WEAR EARPLUGS!!! Especially when using powertools.
 
are you u sure they "prick back up" im a helicopter pilot and im pretty sure they dont, but i could be wrong.

Doctors and Pilots can not say oops!!
 
nah i dont think they really prick back up to where they were before. sometimes doing live sound if i forget to put in plugs i can a ctually feel my ears compress a sound and try and reduce the db or somthing. its an odd feeling
 
mr.rich said:
nah i dont think they really prick back up to where they were before. sometimes doing live sound if i forget to put in plugs i can a ctually feel my ears compress a sound and try and reduce the db or somthing. its an odd feeling
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Yeah, I've noticed that too... Kinda' slow, like an LA2A.
 
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