Competition volume

[ayeckley]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

my ears were often physically hurting.

That means that you have now incurred a small but irreversible amount of hearing loss. FIRST goes to a lot of effort to ensure safety at events, but really drops the ball on this issue. Not referring to you Sean, but unfortunately some folks think that ringing ears is a point of pride. I used to think so too, but as much as I enjoyed that Rush concert at the Richfield Coliseum back in '85 it was probably too loud. The thing that I don't understand is that nowadays rock concerts are very careful about not exceeding SPLs, but yet other events staffed by essentially the same type of production professionals aren't.

Buckeye was the first time I've had to put on my hearing protection at an FRC event in several years. Did not like.