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Originally Posted by getbent
We played a gig today (4 hours) at a place we'd all wanted to play (close and decent dough and great clientele) for awhile... after the second set the owner approaches us and asks for 5 more dates... he says, "you've got six guys, 4 singing and we can hear all of you AND people can order a drink and talk if they want and you guys sound good." I was afraid we were gonna be asked to turn down! Every single one of us makes a conscious effort to keep it down and not have volume creep... Prevention over medication...Turn it DOWN! Everyone will be glad of it.
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This raises an interesting question to me. How loud do you really HAVE to play when gigging?
If its so loud your hearing is damaged, it must be loud enough to damage the hearing of the folks in the audience I'd think.
I've heard drummers play so loud it hurts my ears and if you have a drummer like that in a band the rest of the players are going to have to crank it way up - enough to cause hearing loss.