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This album can report to the "songs I never have to hear again" thread. Can't stand the meager offerings and energy sucking blandness myself. I agree this is probably my own shortcoming but there it is.

Needs more cowbell though! I have weirdly specific tastes, I'd happily go without anything that's ever been on top of the pop or in the top 40 kind of stuff.

Zeal & Ardor is worth a listen. Try the Devil is Fine album. More easy to listen to is Madeleine Peyroux: Careless love.

Alice in Chains: jar of flies comes to mind.

I am runner-up I think. Lead guitar is the most solid player I know, I do bass/vox. Rythm guitar is a nice guy and always shows up on time but doesn't like to put on a show and doesn't practice much at home. The drummer founded the band...

You just had to bring it up didn't you. Couldn't let sleeping dogs lie.

Speaking from across the wet bit, I've traded some pedals through here, ordered from UK companies and even flew in from the Netherlands to trade a bass at the airport! Nothing but smooth transactions.

I have 5. One in bits that I should put together sometime (MTD first Korean edition and upgrades to hardware and electronics). One is just being pretty and I should sell because I don't play 4strings anymore but I don't have the heart yet (June '00 absolutely mint B.C.Rich Beast USA). One hollowbody that I use at home, friends or family for acoustic jams. (Dean Stylist Cabbie) Then there are two that I gig, rehearse etc. Spector Euro 5LX and the Cellar V.

I own 5 basses. Sold 2 and traded one in 30 years of playing (damn I'm getting on!). Second place so far it seems!

Is 40dB SPL - 60dB SPL generally.

In the US and Japan Jackson gets played a lot in the broad spectrum of Rock, all the way to modern country&western. The pointy headstock may have appealed to metalheads but it's mainly the reliable build quality, durability and solid tone why metal-musicians often choose Jackson.

Ears suffer from attrition. Literally wear&tear. Due to age, exposure to high volumes, genetics and some medication (chemo, vancomycin and others) the inner ear deteriorates. When you suspect something is out of the ordinary: go see an ENT doc and do a clinical hearing test. Asymmetrical hearing, everyone mumbling, pain, tinnitus, it doesn't matter. Make an appointment to have it checked out! Ask your ENT about earplugs. Ask them about bone conduction and the occlusion effect. This is why all Christmas tree style and molded earplugs have an open center canal, with the filter rated for certain decibels in it. Stop making assumptions and go have a chat. Even if the waiting list can be long.

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A discussion was started, qualified professionals chimed in with valuable information. If one insists on discussing OPs manner of conduct I suggest one starts a new topic or take it to private messaging because it is making the contents of the topic that are actually quite interesting hard to read. Thanks.

OOstephan and Waterofthyne are correct, there is a boost in SPL around 125-250 Hz in bone conduction when the auditory canals are blocked. And it is the reason for the open tube in earplugs, where the filter is placed that determines the final attenuation level. The denser the filter the higher the attenuation, but also the higher chance of occlusion effect. Because circumaural style earmuffs or eardefenders lock in a larger volume of air to be moved, the occlusion effect is deminished. It simply takes more energy to move more air.

Repetition of "Click bait", suggestion of "dropped on his head as a child" went too far IMO. Anyway, I hope I have contributed to some clarification on the subject of hearing protection.

They way OP is attacked in this discussion is shameful. Even when what he was told was incomplete or incorrect, there is no reason to mock someone so harshly for sharing what they consider New Information. I work as an audiology assistant at a major university hospital in the Netherlands, where I spend my days measuring patients hearing loss, indexing their tinnitus levels, establishing speech recognition scores after cochlear implantation etc. etc. A Google search will tell you that ear defenders struggle to attenuate more than 30dB SPL on average reliably. They encompass the ears but rest on the os petrosum, the bone behind the ears in which the cochlea is molded. Ear plugs, of any make, wil attenuate SPLs up to 25-30ish dB, with a bonus for blocking the auditory canal (the shape of the auditory canal boosts volume around 2k Hz -3k Hz). Together, at most 50-60 dB of attenuation is achieved. This could be comparable to hushed or polite conversation levels. Sound louder than that will make your head function as transducer and when the skull vibrates, so does the cochlea, making it send that information to your brain and you hear sound. When this attenuated sound level reaches intensities that causes fatigue, it can damage the cochlea just like pressure through the auditory canal would. Now infection. Ears require sufficient clean air to stay healthy. Closed off for too long, temperature and moisture may rise just enough for fungi or bacteria to flourish in spite of you earwax trying to hold them at bay. Keeping your ears and sinuses airated helps against festering and inflammation (hence the eardrum tubes for chronic sufferers). I hope you all read this in sir David Attenborough's voice.

Super glue though!

Every guitar manufacturer that does mass production has quality control at their regional distribution centres to double-check the factory's work. All instruments that fail QC are utterly destroyed to prevent possibly faulty parts reaching the market, even eBay or gumtree, because that would be a marketing nightmare.

I shall have to suggest this as our next album title. We play soft-rock ballad covers.

Try a different 2x12. The orange sounds great but is really a 1x12 in disguise and is not the loudest out there. You may find that a single good 2x12 is all you need.

I have about a buck fifty, still more money than sense

What do you want powdercoated?

The boss hm-2 comes to mind as it got credit for the Goteborg Sound in the 90s

I agree, though the Czech I recently traded my SR5 for is the only reference I have. It is truly outstanding!