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The movement of air by a speaker is not felt the same way as headphones. Your skin is responsible for picking up some frequencies. For this reason, most gigs ha
by 72deluxe 13y ago
The movement of air by a speaker is not felt the same way as headphones. Your skin is responsible for picking up some frequencies. For this reason, most gigs have massive subwoofers and line array speaker stacks instead of a plethora of headphones :-)
I am a bass player and I sometimes have to use in-ear-monitoring to stop going deaf, and it isn't the same as hearing the sound from the speaker, particularly if you are counting on the response of the amplifier + speaker combination for sound. Try telling an electric guitarist to use headphones - half of the sound they get is from the combination of amplifier and speaker and the interaction between the two (amplifier sag, speaker cabinet resonance, angle of speakers etc.)
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agoYes but you don't need to be choosing your tone at 3am, surely you can practice techniques/write music without you guitar sounding 100%. I do
- nitrogen 13y agoAgain with the anti-nightowl-ism ;-). Society's prejudice against sufferers of DSPS and non-24-hour sleep cycles must end! That, or we can just build soundproof apartments and let us all choose our own schedules.
- klipt 13y agoIt's more anti-"being woken up by your neighbor being an asshole"-ism. I'm sure as a night owl you wouldn't appreciate having your neighbor play trumpet at 7am after your late night of jamming.
- nitrogen 13y agoNo, I wouldn't appreciate it, but if I complained about my neighbor being noisy at 10AM and someone else complained about their neighbor being noisy at 2AM, I'd get more strange looks. I'm sure most of us could stand to be more considerate of our neighbors, but I'd prefer if soundproofing became common enough that we didn't really have to.