I just know this is the place to obtain an informed answer to an
obscure question.
For someone with tinnitus, how loud is a Fairport Convention concert
likely to be? I see they are variously described as 'folk' and 'folk
rock'. I believe the safe level is 85 dB, but 88 dB or 90 dB may be
okay for short periods.
I am more interested in acoustic levels than comments on the musical
or artistic merits of Fairport Convention :-)
I just know this is the place to obtain an informed answer to an
obscure question.
For someone with tinnitus, how loud is a Fairport Convention concert
likely to be? I see they are variously described as 'folk' and 'folk
rock'. I believe the safe level is 85 dB, but 88 dB or 90 dB may be
okay for short periods.
I am more interested in acoustic levels than comments on the musical
or artistic merits of Fairport Convention :-)
On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 22:07:19 UTC+1, Scott wrote:
I just know this is the place to obtain an informed answer to an
obscure question.
For someone with tinnitus, how loud is a Fairport Convention concert
likely to be? I see they are variously described as 'folk' and 'folk
rock'. I believe the safe level is 85 dB, but 88 dB or 90 dB may be
okay for short periods.
I am more interested in acoustic levels than comments on the musical
or artistic merits of Fairport Convention :-)
FC are a folk band, but levels are likely to be high.
Don't stand too close to large speakers and take a leaf out of her late Majesty the Queen's book and take some earplugs to attenuate the volume?
HM famously wore them during her golden and diamond jubilee pop concerts at the palace.
I just know this is the place to obtain an informed answer to an
obscure question.
For someone with tinnitus, how loud is a Fairport Convention concert
likely to be? I see they are variously described as 'folk' and 'folk
rock'. I believe the safe level is 85 dB, but 88 dB or 90 dB may be
okay for short periods.
I am more interested in acoustic levels than comments on the musical
or artistic merits of Fairport Convention :-)
Often depends on the venue and how near you are to their amp stacks.
Hard to say really.
I think many of us have the problem as w get older. I hear it as a whistle,
but it started as rumbles after being struck by lightning a couple of times >in the 80s, When you are that close to such a sound source, it does not take >very much exposure to do some damage to the hairs. Luckily I'm not going >deaf, but it does impact spacial awareness and ability to tune in to other >conversations in an echoing place.
As I say loud music does not seem to make things worse, but tress does.
Brian
do you think the volume is likely to exceed 85dB?
On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:39:46 +0100, Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
do you think the volume is likely to exceed 85dB?
Relative to what?
On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:32:06 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
<brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
Often depends on the venue and how near you are to their amp stacks.
Hard to say really.
I think many of us have the problem as w get older. I hear it as a
whistle,
but it started as rumbles after being struck by lightning a couple of
times
in the 80s, When you are that close to such a sound source, it does not >>take
very much exposure to do some damage to the hairs. Luckily I'm not going >>deaf, but it does impact spacial awareness and ability to tune in to
other
conversations in an echoing place.
As I say loud music does not seem to make things worse, but tress does.
Brian
Thanks. I'm planning to decline (I'm not that keen on folk music
anyway). Just to improve my evidence base, do you think the volume is
likely to exceed 85dB?
I just know this is the place to obtain an informed answer to an
obscure question.
For someone with tinnitus, how loud is a Fairport Convention concert
likely to be? I see they are variously described as 'folk' and 'folk
rock'. I believe the safe level is 85 dB, but 88 dB or 90 dB may be
okay for short periods.
I am more interested in acoustic levels than comments on the musical
or artistic merits of Fairport Convention :-)
Blimey, what a question. Hard to say, if the venue is big even the audience >can be that loud, particularly if you have a lot of whistlers not just >clappers.
I'd not describe them as pure folk, but actually can be from simple
acoustic to full rock and often you are at the mercy of the sound man I >suppose.
I've not seen them more recently since the fiddle player died, but I do
not recall it being over loud.
Brian
I saw Dave Swarbrick (the fiddle player that died) at the Nettlebed folk
club a few days after one of the national newspapers published an
obituary for him several years prematurely.
Blimey, what a question. Hard to say, if the venue is big even the
audience can be that loud, particularly if you have a lot of whistlers not just clappers.
I'd not describe them as pure folk, but actually can be from simple
acoustic to full rock and often you are at the mercy of the sound man I suppose.
I've not seen them more recently since the fiddle player died, but I do
not recall it being over loud.
In article <e9g4ihtnngc2b5jh5raenqk4knq45ifrno@4ax.com>,
Scott <newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
I just know this is the place to obtain an informed answer to an
obscure question.
For someone with tinnitus, how loud is a Fairport Convention concert
likely to be? I see they are variously described as 'folk' and 'folk
rock'. I believe the safe level is 85 dB, but 88 dB or 90 dB may be
okay for short periods.
I am more interested in acoustic levels than comments on the musical
or artistic merits of Fairport Convention :-)
If you don't get an answer here you could try uk.rec.audio
I don't know the answer, but suspect that even 85dBA for very long could be
a problem. Duration of exposure probably also matters. And it probably also >varies from one person to another. So hard to say for sure.
What I read seemed to suggest that 85dB is considered okay over an 8
hour working day and a bit more than that is okay for shorter periods on
a less frequent basis. There is mention somewhere of a warning needed
on the tickets if 96dB is exceeded.
For my part, as I have tinnitus (not serious at the moment), I am sufficiently risk-averse to decline the opportunity. The last concert I
went to was too loud (Albert Hammond, whom I did not expect to be particularly noisy).
The last 'pop/rock' concerts I went to were back in the days when punk was a novelty.:-)
On 18/09/2022 13:16, Jim Lesurf wrote:
The last 'pop/rock' concerts I went to were back in the days when punk
was a novelty.:-)
... and a very good reason not to go to any more!
In article <tg7m2l$l2tb$2@dont-email.me>, Java Jive
<java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:
On 18/09/2022 13:16, Jim Lesurf wrote:
The last 'pop/rock' concerts I went to were back in the days when punk
was a novelty.:-)
... and a very good reason not to go to any more!
IIRC it was a 'punk' group from Holland. They got booed off the stage as
the audience was more interested in the band that followed them! But I left >early a the sound was far too loud and distorted for me.
Jim
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