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Ok, I saw these at Summer NAMM '04:
http://westone.com/music/universal.html
I believe Roy E. has a set of them.
I'm on the Safety Committee at work, and I work in a noisy factory that requires us to wear hearing protection.
The idea came to me the other day that we could use this sort of thing as a training aid, since we train "on the job", which means lots of noise, and having to shout, and people still not hearing what's being said.
Combine that with a defective P.A. system and important alerts often go unheard in certain areas, especially Tornado alerts. Pages are also often misunderstood.
We use Howard Leight Max-Light foam earplugs, which have an NRR rating of 30 (EPA Noise Reduction Rating). The UM1 with the standard foam pads have a noise reduction level of 25dB.
So I presented this to the Safety Coordinator, and at the same time emailed Westone to see if they had any idea if their UM1 system with the standard foam pads had been used in an industrial setting as hearing protection.
The Safety Coordinator thinks it's a good idea as a training aid, as well as for team leaders and forklift operators.
However, Westone has asked what we would be plugging them into, and I have no idea. I thought they came with a receiver ($109 for a set of mini earplugs?) but it appears not.
I have my own Audio-Technica wireless receivers that came with a camcorder I bought last year, but they're single-channel. I have 2 transmitters with lavalier mics and 2 receivers that can accept 1/8" earphone plugs, but if I set them all to the same frequency, only one transmitter is heard. If I set the transmitter that is heard to the opposite frequency, the one I couldn't hear before is now heard, so there's some sort of problem with that.
Plus they have big bulky antennas.
What I'm looking for is something workable. I thought about a small receiver about the size of an i-Pod and an FM transmitter (like those things you can get to play your guitar through your car stereo just by tuning to an unused freq on your radio).
It definitely has to be inexpensive to even be considered by the company, mostly because of the risk of theft and/or damage.
Any ideas? Any idea on where to start looking?
http://westone.com/music/universal.html
I believe Roy E. has a set of them.
I'm on the Safety Committee at work, and I work in a noisy factory that requires us to wear hearing protection.
The idea came to me the other day that we could use this sort of thing as a training aid, since we train "on the job", which means lots of noise, and having to shout, and people still not hearing what's being said.
Combine that with a defective P.A. system and important alerts often go unheard in certain areas, especially Tornado alerts. Pages are also often misunderstood.
We use Howard Leight Max-Light foam earplugs, which have an NRR rating of 30 (EPA Noise Reduction Rating). The UM1 with the standard foam pads have a noise reduction level of 25dB.
So I presented this to the Safety Coordinator, and at the same time emailed Westone to see if they had any idea if their UM1 system with the standard foam pads had been used in an industrial setting as hearing protection.
The Safety Coordinator thinks it's a good idea as a training aid, as well as for team leaders and forklift operators.
However, Westone has asked what we would be plugging them into, and I have no idea. I thought they came with a receiver ($109 for a set of mini earplugs?) but it appears not.
I have my own Audio-Technica wireless receivers that came with a camcorder I bought last year, but they're single-channel. I have 2 transmitters with lavalier mics and 2 receivers that can accept 1/8" earphone plugs, but if I set them all to the same frequency, only one transmitter is heard. If I set the transmitter that is heard to the opposite frequency, the one I couldn't hear before is now heard, so there's some sort of problem with that.
Plus they have big bulky antennas.
What I'm looking for is something workable. I thought about a small receiver about the size of an i-Pod and an FM transmitter (like those things you can get to play your guitar through your car stereo just by tuning to an unused freq on your radio).
It definitely has to be inexpensive to even be considered by the company, mostly because of the risk of theft and/or damage.
Any ideas? Any idea on where to start looking?
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