6AM’s Guide To Hearing Protection
In this business, your ears are literally everything, and you need to protect them.
It might seem like a good idea to adopt the “you only live once” attitude when you’re enjoying a night of techno; to let the music envelop you without impediment. Dance music is just as much about longevity as it is about pleasure, though. Proper techno parties last eight hours or more, and if that party has a proper sound system that’s eight hours of nonstop exposure to hazardous decibel levels. Extrapolate that over years of techno parties and that’s thousands of hours of pummeling your hearing.
