kidgorgeous
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Hey, I've been practicing mixing everyday for about an hour. I don't have my speakers blaring, but for some reason I keep getting audio dropouts in my actual ears during the day doing normal day to day activities. Like my hearing won't go away completely but sometimes it will drop down a few decibels and then sometimes I'll hear a high pitched sine wave like the tests they used to do for the Emergency Broadcast System. This will last for roughly five minutes.I used to have just one earbud in my left ear to cue the tracks while my right ear was free to listen to the speakers main output. Since I started having these problems in my left ear, I switched the earbud to my right ear just a couple days ago and now I'm starting to have the same problem in my right ear but even worse. Now I just got a sound in my right ear about 20 minutes ago that sounds like the internal fan of a computer that's under high CPU usage.
Could this be a product of my headphones? Like I said I use cheap Sony earbuds I think I've had for ages when I got them with a DiscMan back in the day and they sit directly into the ear canal. And I'm not even cueing tracks super loud, nothing louder than if I was just listening to my Ipod. But I will admit when I'm turning the knob up and down to kill and then hear the cued track, maybe a couple times it will get too loud.
Is this a product of my headphones, my technique, my speakers? Would my ears benefit from higher quality headphones? I had those Denon DN-HP1000's before they got stolen, but I don't like those big clunky Dj headphones. I think they were more of a hassle putting them on and snatching them off and trying to maneuver them when all I want to do is just cue a record. Would higher quality earbuds solve my problem?
Could this be a product of my headphones? Like I said I use cheap Sony earbuds I think I've had for ages when I got them with a DiscMan back in the day and they sit directly into the ear canal. And I'm not even cueing tracks super loud, nothing louder than if I was just listening to my Ipod. But I will admit when I'm turning the knob up and down to kill and then hear the cued track, maybe a couple times it will get too loud.
Is this a product of my headphones, my technique, my speakers? Would my ears benefit from higher quality headphones? I had those Denon DN-HP1000's before they got stolen, but I don't like those big clunky Dj headphones. I think they were more of a hassle putting them on and snatching them off and trying to maneuver them when all I want to do is just cue a record. Would higher quality earbuds solve my problem?