Bring back tinnitus!

[Mation]

Ok, I think I see. Do you mean that because loudness doesn't scale with intensity, using loudness as a measure will not be a good indicator of a damaging level? If so, yes, that is true.

 

[ouchmonkey]

It'll be yer knees first.

apparently so.
It's one long, slow, depressing slide into the grave from here.
At least you're ahead of me to point out things of interest

 

[JTG]

so to summarise, I'd rather take the RNID's advice on this than some badly remembered friend of a friend story

 

[sam/phallocrat]

It's really quite simple - everyone should use sound reducing earplugs.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

It's not so much to do with volume - more sound quality that fucks your ears.

This is actually bollocks. (edit, seen others have already covered this, must learn to read whole threads )

Outdoor events are a pain in the arse from an engineering pov nowadays, and the biggest concern isn't usually the hearing of the punters, it's the complaints from local residents.

 

[Firky]

fuck them! If they want peace and quiet go to the fucking pyramid stage at Glastonbury.

 

[TylerD]

Outdoor events are a pain in the arse from an engineering pov nowadays, and the biggest concern isn't usually the hearing of the punters, it's the complaints from local residents.

^^^^ wot this person wrote.

I've just started a petition about this at http://www.ravetalk.co.uk/soundpetition/ and hope it starts a debate about why the views of one or two moaning old gits count for more than 100,000 festivalgoers who've been working all year round to enjoy that one weekend where they can let their hair down a bit.

Hope it's OK to post the link, I'm not selling anything, just trying to get a campaign off the ground.