Hi guys!!
As you can see, this is a vital topic! Our hearing is extremely important to us, and I'm sure most of you take efforts to prevent even the slightest fluctuation of unexpected noise to reach your lugs, at the best of times.
So what about those unexpected spikes you get when you're recording and mixing!? We've all awoken them from time to time! From awful digital feedback swirling out of your monitors; to short, sharp screams poking you in the earbone when monitoring on headphones. It's all too shocking to experience, and despite how careful we can be, these events occur more often than we'd like them to.
Most of my experiences occur when I'm working in my DAW. They're not frequent; but they bloody hurt! And I know the more it happens, the more I could be damaging my hearing.
I recently came upon an interesting and very useful article on preventing hearing damage when listening with headphones; it makes for very useful reading: check it out
here.
What I would like to know is if anyone here implements something (like an effect) during their mixes, that prevents spikes above a certain threshold, but doesn't effect the body/dynamics of the mix.
Thanks!