How to Protect Your Ears MR and MRS DJ

0:01 Quite possibly, I wouldn't have tinnitus now

Alright guys, I've got some ear defenders in front of me from a company called Ear Peace. Now, first of all, if I go back to when I started DJing many, many years ago, someone came up to me and explained to me in great detail the importance of looking after your ears. Quite possibly, I wouldn't have tinnitus now. Now, yes, I do have tinnitus. Now, what is tinnitus, first of all? Well, it's your ears telling you that they're slowly starting to die. Now, I can hear. I can hear relatively well. But I have to admit, sometimes I do have to say pardon to people, which is a little bit embarrassing and also very annoying. And half the time it's because they're just mumbling on anyway. We should bloody talk properly.

But that's not the issue here. The issue is, of course, hopefully making sure that you do not get tinnitus. So what is tinnitus? Well, apart from your ears are slowly starting to degrade, it's a continual sound that will be whistling in your ears. Now, that sound could be different of different frequencies. It could be one frequency. It could be a couple of frequencies. It could be a low volume or a high volume. Now, I'm not a doctor, so I don't want to really delve into the depths of what it is and how it affects you, etc. What I know about myself is that I have a little bit of a ringing in my ear. During the day, I don't really notice it because you have ambient sounds. But at night when it's very quiet and I concentrate on it,

I can hear it and it's not really annoying. I'm just actually used to it. But there are probably some people out there who've got very bad tinnitus and it is very, very annoying. So I want to show this product here from a company called Ear Peace. So they are earplugs and they're made with silicon and first and foremost, what I'm very pleased about, there are three of them. So any aliens out there who've got three ears, look, you're sorted. Mind you, having said that, aliens could have 10 years or 20 or even one.

2:12 Of course, there's three in case you lose one

Of course, there's three in case you lose one. Now it comes in a rather nice metal carry case or put a couple in there and they all do fit in there, you just squish them down and the top on. And that is it. And I would say that probably waterproof as well because it's a nice rubber seal around there so you can stick that on your keys and no one will know what's inside it. Here you go, a quick bit of a close up for you made with hypoallergenic silicon. All you do is you pop that end into your ear and then when you want to remove it, you've got a small tab there. Just grab hold of that and pull, very simple. Okay, so what are they about? What do they do? Why are they here and why should maybe you invest in them?

Well, simply because if you do want to look after them, you can put them into your ears and you go to, say, a nightclub with a loud or say a loud environment, nightclub, bar, wedding reception or maybe your next door neighbour just wants to shout at you. Actually, that'd be a good idea to put those in and then you wouldn't hear anyone. No, you would. Of course, you can hear because what they will not do is stop all the audio getting to your ears. What they will do is they will reduce the dB decibels. Now, that is something to do with sound level, sound pressure level. Decibels, the higher the dB, the greater the sound. Now, first of all, if let's say, just digressing slightly, if you are listening to some audio that is, say, 102 dB,

4:42 Raves and enjoy yourself or d

If you think that by going to 204 you're doubling that, you're very, very wrong. You've only got to increase by a few dB and you're actually doubling the sound. If, let's say, you were listening to something in the same room at 204 dB, not only probably would your ears explode but you would as well and quite possibly two or three miles away the people in the local village would all die from being deaf as well. So what do these things do? Well, they will reduce the dB, the decibels by 14 dB and 11 dB. Now, inside each of the silicon earplugs there is a small piece that you can take out with a hole in it. Now, I'm not sure, I need to look and it is in the instructions but you have red and pink. So I'm presuming, I'm going to take a wild guess

That the pink ones will reduce the decibels more than the red. Don't quote me please if I'm wrong. So all you pretty much do is you take out, see that, that's starting to come out now, the internal part and you pop the other one in. So I've taken out the pink and I can pop the red one in. So firstly, you still can go to raves and enjoy yourself or dance nights or any kind of event. Secondly, you will still be able to hear the music. Thirdly, which is the most important part, if you're having the likes of earplugs like these you can pretty much guarantee that you'll walk away from that nightclub, take them out and you will be able to hear everything else that's going on and not have that kind of wobbling sound in your ears.

Because the first sign of tinnitus is once you come from say a loud environment your ears may vibrate or you may get some funny sounds or it's almost like you're still in the nightclub and then hopefully, hopefully for you it will disappear. If it doesn't disappear and it stays for a prolonged time and then goes that's almost like the next stage. Sadly in my case, if it's there all the time then that's pretty much it, it's there all the time. Alright now I'll put a couple of links in the description one for US and one for UK where you can get more info on earpiece. So again what do you get? Well you get three earplugs you also get the small tiny parts that you put into the earplug that will reduce the decibels

You get your destruction manual and you get peace of mind knowing that your ears potentially are going to last a very long time. The other way of course of making sure that your ears will stay in perfect condition all the way through a dance night is very simple. Walk around like that all night practice and enjoy, thank you.

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