A Disc Jockey’s Ringing Sound in Ear

Music makes you dance to the beat and keeps your spirit alive.  If you are working as a disc jockey, your life may evolve around music.  Whether you are playing inside your station’s radio booth or in clubs where everybody dances to the music that you play, you are highly susceptible of acquiring a ringing sound in ear.

At work, you always have your headset worn to listen to the music that you play for people who listen to your program.  But definitely you are listening to it at a volume that is louder than normal.

There are some professions which can make people prone to having tinnitus and being a disc jockey is one of them.  A ringing sound in ear can be heard by majority of disc jockey’s.  The choice of music that they play has nothing to do with the ear ringing that they hear.  Whether it’s RnB, pop, hiphop, mellow, jazz, rock, etc., the tinnitus happens as a result of the loudness of the music.  Anything that is loud, whether noise or music, gives damage to the fine hair cells in the cochlea and this damage may be too serious that it can become irreversible.

People often regret about not taking good care of their ears when they had the chance to.  If your passion is music and you work as a disc jockey, you may be very lucky if until now you are totally free from tinnitus.  So here are a few things that you can do to continue staying away from an ear ringing:

·       Do not have your headset on for hours and hours – Although you work as a DJ, it is not necessary that you wear that headset for the entire duration of your work.  Remove it when you are not using it.  This allows time for your ears to rest.  Do you know that every time you are listening to music you are causing your hair cells to vibrate?  Louder music, the harder the hair cells vibrates.

·       Easy on the volume – The safest would be not to go beyond 60% and not to have your ears exposed to non-stop noise or music for more than 60 minutes.

·       Have your ears checked – Although we know it is very difficult to avoid ear ringing when you work as a disc jockey, it would be good to know the extent of the damage and hope that it can be reversed.

What we have proven here is that old cliché, anything that is too much is not good for your health.  Do things in moderation and play it safe to eliminate that ringing sound in ear, or control the damage that has been done.