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Can you hear this?

• • • Hearing Test: noiseaddicts.com
    • -8,000 Hz should be easily heard by everyone with normal hearing
      -12,000 Hz is hard for anyone over 50 years of age to hear
    • Sound Levels: makeitlouder.com

Listen Smart – Safely Handling the Power of Sound –

• • • Goal: Listen to music in a way that does not harm you but enriches you
    • Sound is measured is decibels
    • You shouldn’t be in 125 decibels or higher , called the threshold of pain
    • Rock concerts can get up to 150 decibels
    • You don’t have to be old to get hearing loss
    • 10%-20% of highschoolers have hearing damage
    • A third of hearing loss is related to noise
    • You have hair cells deep in your ear that you’re born with and never grow back, if you listen to loud music and sounds then it can kill these hair cells and you’ll lose your hearing
    • There’s no cure to hearing loss
    • Earplugs don’t change the quality of sounds, only the volume

Audio Career Tips –

soundadvice.info

• • • You need to be responsible of your own hearing in the workplace, you need to know your limits.
    • Everyone involved in music and entertainment has a responsibility to help with noise management.
    • If you play in an orchestra you are exposed to loud noises even if you’re in the pit or on or off stage
    • Lost of people in the live music industry struggle with permanent
    • If you work in or around a sound studio you have to be careful and perform a noise risk assessment, musicians and technicians are exposed to high levels of noise.
    • If are a teacher for music at a school or college establish whether your employees are at risk, perform a noise risk assessment
    • If you work at a pub or bar with loud music playing being played establish if you or your coworkers are at risk. This happens because you are exposed to loud levels of sound for a very long exposure of time
    • If you’re a member of a marching band you get exposed to very high levels of noise. If you are you can get permanent hearing damage.