A look at an alternative to big head phones

0:00 I still get lots of emails and questions about what headphones to use

Alright folks, I still get lots of emails and questions about what headphones to use. Now the reason I'm doing this particular video, had an email from someone and they said right, I was at a gig, had my headphones on and I found that I still couldn't hear the music correctly through my headphones because the actual PA was so loud. So, the reason being is because you've got a cushion around your headphone And of course you've got the sound from the PA can actually leak through and join in with the actual sound that you're listening to through the actual headphones. Now how can you get rid of that or how can you maybe try and get a better sound? What we've got is these guys here, these earbuds. They're known as the eBuds 700s. What I'll do, I'll put a link at the side of the video. And the differences with these as opposed to big headphones is that these will actually fit inside your ear like so. Now what happens is your ear is a small canal. Now at the end of the day it can't get stuck inside your ears even if the cable came off. That is not going to get stuck inside your ear. So what happens, if you think about it logically

If you have a huge speaker a mile away and that speaker is boomingly loud, you may just about be able to hear it. But as that speaker gets closer and closer and closer towards you, it will get louder and louder and louder until eventually you will actually have to turn it down. So think about it. You've got a speaker here, quite a large speaker on your normal headphones. And it's relatively loud. Now if you imagine that speaker was right against your eardrum, you would have to turn it down. So this is nearly exactly the same principle. In here is a very, very small speaker. So A, it doesn't have to be as loud which in turn will stop you or help you from not losing your hearing or let's say hurting your hearing and also because it's so close to your actual eardrum

2:35 Maybe it's an idea for you to even test some of those out

And because as well it's almost, what it's done is actually plugged the hole in your ear. Theoretically you won't have as much sound being able to get inside your eardrum. So theoretically as well all you should be hearing is the sound from this speaker and like I said it won't have to be turned up too much. I mean that's one and that's the other one. There you go. And you can see there it looks like a blinking hairdryer doesn't it? I mean I can imagine Barbie playing with that. And if I wang that over like so, then there you go. That's what it looks like. So that'll fit in your ear one side and if you want it you can put split cue on and that can go in the other side. So there you go. And again like I said with split cue you could just want it in either side and you could mix quite happily away with having very little if any sound from outside coming into your ears. So there you go.

That's what they look like. Maybe it's an idea for you to even test some of those out. Anyway, thank you for watching and as usual, practice and enjoy. And by the way, don't forget, look after your ears because they're the only ones you've got.

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