2mb wrote:
I have used the common soft foam earplugs found in factories to go to
concerts with for years and had excellent sound quality with them while
protecting my hearing well. Don't know if they are adequate to do live sound
with though... The high end came through, but I have *no* idea if it was
accurate enough to mix with. That seems like a really hard thing to measure
with scientific accuracy: )

I use them all the time, and they definitely attenuate the high end a lot
more than the midrange. Upper midrange sounds a little bit constricted
and muffled. But you can mix on them in a pinch if you know what to expect
with them, and they're $25 for a box of 200 pairs.

I'd much rather use the higher grade musicians plugs that are intended to
be flat, but I'd rather use the yellow foam things than nothing.
--scott

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