Your ears are ringing like crazy from a night spent underneath some line arrays and you wonder... "Why do I keep doing this to myself?" There has to be a way for you to enjoy a live performance and your hearing afterwards. Right? Up until now, there really hasn't been. You had two options if you wanted to rock out to live music and still maintain healthy hearing afterwards. Your first and most common option is to buy a set of cheap ear plugs from your local drug store. Problem with those is that they make the show sound like the band is playing inside of a padded room. The second option, and more professional route was to purchase musicians earplugs. These ear plugs are specially molded to your ear canal and provide hearing protection while keeping the attenuation linear across the frequency spectrum. These are what most performers and engineers use during gigs as they allow the person wearing them to hear the music as it sounds naturally minus a few dB's. However, these earplugs are expensive and require a trip to the doctor to obtain. So, the cheap ear plugs make concerts lifeless and the good ear plugs cost an arm and a leg. What to do???
