From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018081411060210791-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > long phone call with her last night.  She turned on the water works.   
   > Bottom line, she's scared to death of IEM's.  Someone, probably one of her   
   > old band buddies told her they're bad. And so that's that.  Irrational,   
   > totally irrational fear, is in complete control.   
      
   I've never been afraid of IEMs, only have a problem dealing with the growing   
   ever the more unpleasant sensation of having my ears plugged with   
   anything...but when I practically can't hear myself even then, that cinches   
   it.   
   If I was ever able to experience the sound the way I need it to be, and   
   still couldn't stand having my ears plugged past a certain amount of time,   
   I'm sure I'd opt for headphones - and even those bother my ears if I wear   
   them for too long - the humidity without ventilation really gets to me.   
   Perhaps if there was a design of IEM that had ventilation, ideally Active   
   ventilation, I'm sure that would help enormously.   
      
   > I've scoured the net looking for things like this about in ears. All I've   
   > ever seen, examples of people who won't use them, are old band people who   
   > just simple won't change their ways. They say things like " we played   
   > without them in the 60's and 70's so why do we need them now ?"   
      
   I like them fine, in *theory*, but the problem is that in *practice*, as if   
   just having something stuck into my ears isn't bad enough to deal with, it's   
   compounded by something far worse - my ears sweat internally and without   
   ventilation, or even sufficient evaporation, the sensation grow ever the   
   more horrible. Then, add to that an Idiot on the mixing board keeping me   
   turned almost down to zero!   
      
      
   > Pure crazy.  She's rather put up with stupid loud stage volume and   
   > cymbals.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I'd rather not do that either - which has given me cause to consider that if   
   the soundwork is what it should be, then there should be no *need* for IEMs   
   in the first place, only a *preference* for them by those who prefer them.   
      
   In other words, IEMs used as a 'solution' to a problem that shouldn't be in   
   the first place, are a 'solution' that shouldn't be in the first place,   
   because I've found that proficient soundwork sounds Awesome wither on   
   monitors, IEMs, or headphones...but monitors allow for actually being in the   
   Live environment, and maximum Love Vibe.   
      
   When I'm missing that, the Vibe suffers because there's a profound sense of   
   isolation and it makes me feel "Stranded"...the title of the opening track   
   on the Ignite The Sky Album, whose second verse says is so very clearly:   
      
   broken off communication   
   longing for transmissions lost   
      
   constant worry and frustration   
   a fire freezing in the frost   
      
   of all the frozen isolation   
   of a whole lifetime to endure   
      
   in search of and appreciation   
   of real Love that's true and pure   
      
   And makin' Music's makin' Love!!!   
      
   Ouisie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)