swansneck wrote:

I find it harder and harder to cope with TV advertising as I get older.  I can listen to and enjoy the loudest Rammstein track on my headphones but a vacuous advert using flashing images and chirpy, happy music gets me grabbing for the tv mute button.

It always seems that the ads are louder than the programme itself. You're sitting down watching your favourite program, it goes to ads and suddenly the TV's blaring in your face. Annoying.

It seems that way because the are.  TV ads are highly compressed (as in run through an audio compressor) to give them more apparent volume.  I have a good friend that is an audio engineer in LA, and does a lot of audio work for TV.  I asked him if he was the one responsible for all that compression.  "I smash the $@!& out of that stuff."

I learned to sleep in public in college. This may have been my downfall at my first college.

Bunbun, I also developed the skill of being able to catch a "combat" nap on a busy flightline full of fighter jets coming and going.

I was stationed on an aircraft carrier for years.   My rack was directly under the flight deck between the #3 and #4 arresting wires.   I learned to sleep with F-14s and A6's landing, literally, three feet above my head.   Slept like a baby, too.

But in port, if there were welders on board, some dude with a little hammer up there "tap tap tapping" some weld would wake me up in about two seconds.  Used to drive me nuts.

I find it harder and harder to cope with TV advertising as I get older.  I can listen to and enjoy the loudest Rammstein track on my headphones but a vacuous advert using flashing images and chirpy, happy music gets me grabbing for the tv mute button.

Ah, the blessed remote. How did we ever cope without it. We tape everything and watch it later, skipping all the ads in the process.

Do we as musicians cope less well with annoying sounds? That was my original thought. Seems some do and some don't. No different to anyone else it would appear....

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Not a plimsole LINE, a pair of plimsoles. Or trainers, sneakers etc. Crazy Brits and their silly words for things........

I find it harder and harder to cope with TV advertising as I get older.  I can listen to and enjoy the loudest Rammstein track on my headphones but a vacuous advert using flashing images and chirpy, happy music gets me grabbing for the tv mute button.

It always seems that the ads are louder than the programme itself. You're sitting down watching your favourite program, it goes to ads and suddenly the TV's blaring in your face. Annoying.

Bunbun, I also developed the skill of being able to catch a "combat" nap on a busy flightline full of fighter jets coming and going.

Most things I can tune out, it's an age thing, and maybe artillery damage catching up with me.  Unusual noises, even fairly quiet ones will wake me right up though.  Heaven forbid a transformer explode down the road though.... you'll have to "winch me" from under the bed!  PTSD anyone?

Take Care;
Doug

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jerome.oneil wrote:

Zurf wrote:

Other people's children screaming does not bother me.  My children screaming gets to me quickly. 

- Zurf

This is me exactly.  When I see some mom struggling with her kids, I have an empathetic reaction.  When my kids get out of line, my fuse burns right down to the nub in about two seconds.  Fortunately for me, I have pretty good kids.

And I will THIRD that!  Actually, since my daughter was diagnosed with a form of autism, I've learned to become even more compassionate and understanding about other people's kids.

My youngest son is severely autistic.  He's actually the easiest of them, generally.  Once you learn how he reacts in certain situations, you can avoid them entirely.  It's the girls that drive me the most nuts, naturally. 

I can wait until I get my electric guitar (still saving up for it) then I can annoy other people with noise instead of them annoying me!

As long as you're in tune, mate, it's music to my ears! Thats the funny thing, I could be soaking up the sun with Killing Joke blasting in my ears thru my earphones to cover the sound of constant barking and fall asleep to it.

It's all relative i guess.....