does working with sound sensitizes our ears?

[bandcoach]

Don't be intimidated, I studied the ear from the point of view of perceptual psychology i.e. what is it that we actually believe is being transmitted to our ears.

One final note to make about wearing ear plugs to a concert/rave/club/what-have-you: you will hear the music a quarter-tone flat from what you would with your ear canals open.

check and see simply by putting your fingers into the outer part of the ear, opening and closing the canal opening whilst paying attention to what happens to the pitch.....

[WeissSound]

louder the better was my motto. but now i find myself wanting to listen to music at lower levels and saying things like, "too loud" and "smh, damn that loudness war" lol. i won't even go to a night club or music festival without earplugs. is all this the result of learning how to make music? a subconscious way of wanting to turn things down?

There's two sides of it. Generally, things that are less compressed will sound better turned up. You might just be hearing that fact.


At the same time, engineers are a bunch of sissy ass pansies that cry every time they see a red light. Here's the thing, if you give two different songs to an engineer to criticize, and one is severely over compressed but the output is turned down - the other is compressed hard but not disturbingly hard and kept at full output - the engineers will criticize the louder one for being over compressed but will deem the other one to be "stylistic." Not all engineers, but a lot. So, you might find yourself getting over it pretty soon.

[talos]

i hear what youre saying, sounds smoother at a lower volume sometimes

[acetheface954]

i hear what youre saying, sounds smoother at a lower volume sometimes

are you referring to what bandcoach said? because i don't know what i'm supposed to be hearing blocking sound with my fingers.

There's two sides of it. Generally, things that are less compressed will sound better turned up. You might just be hearing that fact.


At the same time, engineers are a bunch of sissy ass pansies that cry every time they see a red light. Here's the thing, if you give two different songs to an engineer to criticize, and one is severely over compressed but the output is turned down - the other is compressed hard but not disturbingly hard and kept at full output - the engineers will criticize the louder one for being over compressed but will deem the other one to be "stylistic." Not all engineers, but a lot. So, you might find yourself getting over it pretty soon.

sissies? loolol. so you're saying its all irrelevant?

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Don't be intimidated, I studied the ear from the point of view of perceptual psychology i.e. what is it that we actually believe is being transmitted to our ears.

One final note to make about wearing ear plugs to a concert/rave/club/what-have-you: you will hear the music a quarter-tone flat from what you would with your ear canals open.

check and see simply by putting your fingers into the outer part of the ear, opening and closing the canal opening whilst paying attention to what happens to the pitch.....

all i hear is a filtered sound. no pitch change...