Protect your ears to protect your hearing!
Exposure to noise causes hearing loss. Ear infections from exposure to water cause hearing loss. On the job or just having fun, it’s important to protect your ears to protect your hearing. Audiology and Hearing Services has the custom earmolds and earplug you need to protect your hearing.
Musicians’ ear protection
Musicians have unique needs when it comes to hearing protection. Every practice session and every performance put their hearing at risk of damage from excessive noise. Standard hearing protection isn’t a viable option because it doesn’t cater to their personalized needs. Musicians must still be able to hear their voice and instrument, as well as the other musical sounds around them. This requires specialized protection.
Musicians’ earplugs and earmolds fit in the ear and ear canal. They can be custom made. These devices feature an attenuator that allows some sound through. They reduce the decibel level without distorting the sound. Studies performed in industrial settings show that custom protection provides more hearing protection than off-the-shelf devices.
Musicians’ in-ear monitors conserve hearing while replacing standard stage monitors. These devices allow you to hear your voice and music while you perform without the dangerous amplification. Because they replace stage monitors, they are easier to move and automatically adapt to the acoustics of any venue.
Sound suppression for hunting
The sound of gunfire can be exhilarating. At 120-160 decibels, it is also damaging to your ears. Protect your ears to protect your hearing while practicing at the range and while out on the hunt. Earplugs and earmolds for hunters suppress the dangerous decibels while amplifying the lower decibels so you hear every twig snap around you.
Custom protection for swimmers 
Constant exposure to water and wind is more than irritating. It can set the stage for chronic ear infections that put your hearing at risk. Custom molds for swimmers keep out wind and water to protect your ears, but still allow you to hear the coach, the competition and the environment around you.
Hunting:
Hunting, shooting and sudden noise. A filter instantaneously closes when damaging noise levels are reached. Allows essentially normal hearing at all other times.
Music:
Ideal for performing musicians and concert-goers. Also great for flight attendants, bartenders, waiters, dental professionals. Allows wearer to hear sounds accurately, but at reduced levels. Three filter options available: 9dB, 15dB or 25dB.
Swimming:
For swimming and showering – and they FLOAT! Also provide superb noise reduction.
Sleep:
Offers comfortable and uninterrupted rest. Also great for shift workers with non-traditional hours.
Motorsport:
Designed with a hollow canal for under helmet use to reduce wind buffeting.
Surf:
Designed to prevent surfer’s ear and swimmer’s ear caused by exposure to cold water and wind. The floatable material is molded with a sealed membrane spanning the sound bore that keeps cold water and air out of the ear canal, but allows for conversation and hearing while in the ear.
Occupational:
Ideal for high-noise industrial environments.
iCustom:
For use with any bud/button style earphones.
DefendEar 1:
Amplification for situational awareness, as well as noise attenuation when you pull the trigger.
DefendEar 2:
Offers two modes, game, which is optimized for intermittent shots, and clay mode, which is optimized for continued shots.
DefendEar Hunter:
Offers standard digital features and provides protection in windy environments.