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I get the feeling from looking online the off the shelf ones are all much of a muchness?
It's taken a few gigs to get used to 'em but I've kinda adapted now - it's great to drive home at night without my ears ringing.
People on gearpage generally seem to rate custom moulds over off the shelf (obv. more $$$). However one guy who's been thru the lot (custom and off the shelf) suggested 3M Peltor Sport triple flanged ear plugs (I have no idea what they're like).
You're right to raise this as a thread - stuff like this really should be more discussed / recommendations etc... For musicians this is pretty important stuff as regards hearing.
The ACS are more comfortable - they're smooth silicon vs the hard plastic of the Read. Also makes the ACS easier to insert and remove. Hence at the moment for me it's ACS for attending gigs and Read for playing with band.
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It's a no brainer to get good quality molded earplugs as soon as you can. My mother and sister are both profoundly deaf - one through age (she's 89 years of age, bless her) and the other from having worked at concert venues in the 1970's when there were no noise limits at gigs, and no one had heard of earplugs.
Believe me hearing aids run into thousands of pounds for decent ones, so do yourself a favour and buy some decent moulded plugs now and save yourself a fortune in the future.
Once you've got tinitus it never goes away...
Do the job.
The 3m ones look like fairly generic 3 flange jobs but easy to keep track of (just don't look at them with the naked eye or in strong sunlight).
I avoid using a connecting string in case it catches on something and rips the plugs out.
For gig attendance the Alpine MusicSafe ones are fine, and in budget.
As far as I can see the only difference between the two is an extra filter option and some cleaning stuff (and a better case) with the Pro ones. When I got mine I think there was only the equivalent of "pro" available (three filters, but no cleaning stuff, and a hard plastic case) and I've used them for jams and for attending gigs, usually with the minimal dB cut filter, occasionally with the middle one. So I'd get Pro, as I get most use out of the extra filter that comes with those.
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Joe Satriani Interview - The Elephants Of Mars, EVH & More - YouTube
Famous musicians who openly talk about their tinnitus:
https://youtu.be/DaYR3JjSkRk?t=1741
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