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Author Topic: Hearing loss Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 11-11-2011 09:23 PM                        Me too - lost quite a bit of my hearing, especially in my left ear due to an intercom screw up while flying back in the mid-1980s. When I first started flying and working at airports in the mid-1970s I never wore hearing protection. Like Randy mentioned above, it was a macho thing - men never wore such wimpy things. Later I started flying for a living giving air tours over the Grand Canyon. In those days the pilot also did the tour narration, shouting over the noise to the passengers. Company rules forbid pilots from wearing headsets since the passengers would feel they couldn't ask questions if the pilot had a headset on. By the late-1980s the general attitude towards hearing protection became more accepting - I wore headsets and bought my own pair for personal flying from about 1987 on. During my flying years I also worked as a stagehand on the Las Vegas Strip, including lots of jobs as a sound mixer. Again, more exposure to very high SPLs, and again without hearing protection. By the mid-1990s I had given up both being a stagehand and a pilot and so exposure to high SPLs went way down, but wasn't eliminated. But the damage had already been done. During the last year-and-a-half I've been installing digital projectors - mostly Sony 320s at Regal sites, but also lots of NECs and occasionally Barcos and Christies. The Sony 320 was easily the loudest of all the digital machines. I used to have to walk well away from those machines whenever I needed to be on a cell phone - just simply couldn't hear otherwise. Never wore hearing protection on any of those jobs. Working on getting back to SoCal and a new job now. I'll definitely be paying more attention to what's left of my hearing from here on out.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 11-14-2011 03:54 PM                     I discovered when in military service that I lost the ability to hear on my right ear, probably as early as basic training on the firing range. We shot 30.06 ball ammo from Garand rifles,and in addition to the noise of the cartridge explosion, the bolt came back with a ringing clang with each shot, and shot forward loading the next cartridge. That produced a painful numbness. We had no protection for our ears, but a couple of country boys stuffed cotton in there ears and Kotex napkins under their jackets to reduce the recoil kick.  |  IP: Logged John T. Hendrickson, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 889 From: Freehold, NJ, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-24-2011 07:50 PM                     I know I've experienced some loss. If I'm in the booth with equipment running nearby and someone talks to me, I have to move closer to them to pick up what they are saying. Don't have any problem when there is no background noise. At the insistance of my wife, I recently took a hearing test. The gal who did the test said:"You have a problem hearing women's voices." To which I replied: "Why is that a problem?"  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 12-21-2011 05:58 AM                     I have a hearing test this morning. I have been dealing with disability/social security. My only training has been in sound. Syn-Aud-Con, Dolby and Peavey. I've run sound for a few local bands and set up more theater sound systems than I can remember. The projector work is easy, but unfortunately everything is digital now and I was working in the large format industry as film was fading away. The local theater has the tech I trained about 20 years ago and they don't have any work for me (all 50 screens are digital and they have an IMAX tech who comes in to service the 15/70). Anyway, it sucks always saying "what?" and getting in close and turning my head just to have a conversation. The only person I can hear is my ex, but thats because we're always yelling  |  IP: Logged

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