Is the music in pubs/clubs too loud?

ZombieBride · 30-12-2012 3:29pm #1

I end up coming home hoarse from nights out, not due to alcohol but due to trying to scream to be heard. Do we need the volume turned to to such a degree to cause a ringing in our ears to enjoy a night out? :cool:

Annasopra · 30-12-2012 3:29pm

Yes it's too loud

Death and Taxes · 30-12-2012 3:30pm

Wha?:D

Schwiiing · 30-12-2012 3:31pm

more volume=less talking=more drinking=more profits.

Celly Smunt · 30-12-2012 3:32pm

Schwiiing wrote: »

more volume=less talking=more drinking=more profits.

increase volume
stop talking
???????
profit

keith16 · 30-12-2012 3:32pm

Yet another reason I rarely head out these days. Hate the places that do it.

GarIT · 30-12-2012 3:33pm

Most pubs are too quiet, most clubs are just about right.

But I'm not old so my POV is probably different to your's

Why would you ever go to a nightclub to talk? You should only ever go for the ride.

Sauve · 30-12-2012 3:33pm

ZombieBride wrote: »

I end up coming home hoarse from nights out, not due to alcohol but due to trying to scream to be heard. Do we need the volume turned to to such a degree to cause a ringing in our ears to enjoy a night out? :cool:

Don't go to a nightclub expecting to have a conversation. 'The Shift' and 'Crying in the toilets' are the only two forms of communication in places like that.
The volume of the music is as such to discourage any sensible behaviour.

Where To · 30-12-2012 3:36pm

Two things that should never be allowed in pubs

1)Music

Annasopra · 30-12-2012 3:38pm

2) loud TVs

hoodwinked · 30-12-2012 3:39pm

a friend of mine is a dj, after being in london for a bit he came back home and he noticed that clubs here had upped the volume since he left,

its on managements orders basically.

its not just us old fogies noticing it either, all our sacred old fogie pubs have been raided by youngsters who find the clubs too loud to have fun in :mad:

srfc19 · 30-12-2012 3:43pm

GarIT wrote: »

Most pubs are too quite, most clubs are just about right.

Pubs are too quite what??

the_syco · 30-12-2012 3:43pm

I tend to just not goto pubs that have loud music, or leave if they get a band in that will play their music so loud that you can't talk.

BTW, I'm talking about pubs that don't have a rep for bands (the quite old mans pub in the village) as opposed to the music pubs that have a proper stage and a proper sound system that they can knock out the same sound throughout the pub at the same level.

mikemac1 · 30-12-2012 3:57pm

Bring back free food in the nightclubs

mayotom · 30-12-2012 3:59pm

yes too loud. and has been for quiet a while

Stheno · 30-12-2012 4:01pm

Don't go to pubs with music blaring, can't stand them

Fr_Dougal · 30-12-2012 4:05pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3PMvE2idZw

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mackg · 30-12-2012 4:39pm

Clubs are going to be loud, what do you expect? It's the fact that lots of pubs that were the alternative to this have gone down the same road. I've a friend who in fairness to the guy has a silver tongue but if it wasn't for the relative quiet of the smoking area it would be fcuk all good to him.

Antar Bolaeisk · 30-12-2012 4:41pm

I honestly can't stand it and rarely go out as a result.

I'm also certain that ringing in the ears effect produced by such nights out can't be good either.

Anyone know what an average decibel level the music in these places is played at?

pappyodaniel · 30-12-2012 4:44pm

"Nightclubs are rarely quiet quite at night."

I wish people could distinguish between these two words. It can make or break a sentence.

The Dublin Whale · 30-12-2012 5:25pm

Was out with friends last night. We were having a great nights craic, then someone turned up the music so loud you had to scream at the person next to you to be heard. After about 20 minutes of repeating ourselves 2 or 3 times we all got fed up and sat in silence then left shortly afterwards. The bar went from being jammers to near empty in the space of about half an hour due to them deafening us with the music. When will bar owners learn?

validusername1 · 30-12-2012 6:39pm

Loud music doesn't bother me 'cause I like it, but if it's to the point that it leaves your ears ringing afterwards, that's a bad sign. Things like that happening too much can cause hearing loss when you're older. There's a legal maximum noise level that pubs & clubs have to obey but from my experience, that law is not implemented much.. Like I said it doesn't bother me personally but if it leaves your ears ringing, don't go there very much, or at least not for as long a time if you don't wanna damage your hearing

sea76 · 12-03-2013 11:00pm

Yes music far too dam loud in nite clubs,Regardless of age, Does more harm to younger hearing "sorry for fact"!! whatever happened to slow sets they were cool in a way, at least you could chat to a girl:)

DonR8 · 12-03-2013 11:02pm

Just turn up yer hearing aids lol

GLaDOS · 12-03-2013 11:04pm

Definitely, which is why I avoid clubs like the plague.

Was in Thunderoad cafe Saturday night with my girlfriend and it was the same, music absolutely blaring, really spoiled the meal for me.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 12-03-2013 11:20pm

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

I'm also certain that ringing in the ears effect produced by such nights out can't be good either.

I don't take that as a good sign either. I find it an interesting measure of volume when you have to shout as loud as you can right into someone's ear and they still can't hear you.
But sure everyone else is doing it, so it's probably all fine.

hatrickpatrick · 12-03-2013 11:24pm

Supposedly there's something about that volume level where you can actually feel the bass vibrating through your body, that makes people buy more drink than they otherwise would. Read an article about it once. It's something to do with how that vibrating rhythm affects your body's response to sweating etc.

hatrickpatrick · 12-03-2013 11:27pm

There are some clubs I simply won't go to because of this. Absolutely despise Club 92, they have loud music in the smoking area which is usually where I go to get away from the noise in a club. Coppers isn't far behind in terms of volume but they at least have a quiet smoking area. Recently been avoiding the Palace like the plague, they seem to have seriously jacked up the volume lately. Village is grand, Krystle / Diceys / Russle Court in general are grand, NV on Leeson Street used to strike an absolutely perfect volume balance when it was still open (half the club was loud for dancing and the other half was quiet enough to have a chat and a pint in), really wish they hadn't closed

Chemical Burn · 12-03-2013 11:39pm

Pubs, not too bad, clubs YES.

Clubs are generally kips frequented by a certain lower class of people that I tend not to amalgamate with, I am above them.

Higher class pubs and wine bars and craft beer bars are normally where I go, where I can have a civil conversation at a normal volume with civilized normal people and a proper beer. Not crap served in a plastic cup.

cena · 12-03-2013 11:47pm

I like to be able to speak in a night club where people can hear me. So ya it is way too loud

Richard Hillman · 12-03-2013 11:53pm

I absolutely despise when local boozer rolls out a pub band. You go to a boozer to chat to your mates or have a quiet pint by yourself not listen to cover versions of Hotel California.

Cosmicfox · 12-03-2013 11:54pm

I'm fine with loud music to a certain point but it gets annoying when your left with a ringing in your ears, which can't be good.

12-03-2013 11:56pm

Definitely. I'm very sensitive to background noise as it is, so I find it really difficult.

Sky King · 13-03-2013 12:05am

I have permenant tinnitus (ear ringing) from a night out in a club with overly loud music. Well I had a mild version of it before from an illness, but the club really exacerbated it. It's my own stupid fault for not recognising it was doing damage, but the club still should not have been playing the music that loud.

When i came out of the club I could hear my ears ringing over the traffic in the street! I almost had a nervous breakdown - because I am a musician and I love music, I thought that now not only was I going to be stuck with this stupid ass tinnitus, I might not be able to play any more.

Thankfully its a lot better now and I can play, but i have to be very careful and need to wear earplugs in any kind of loud environment, my tolerance to loud noise is gone.

I think that this is going to be the next floodgates of litigation, like the army deafness 15 years ago - bar staff bouncers and DJs with hearing destroyed though deafness or tinnitus from loud venues.

And it actually hoesnt have to be this way. A high quality intelligently designed club soundsystem will have the full rich sound you want but you should still be able to converse over it.

But no - most places in Ireland anyway just drive their speakers into the red in the hope that you'll shut up and drink up.

oppenheimer1 · 13-03-2013 12:17am

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Supposedly there's something about that volume level where you can actually feel the bass vibrating through your body, that makes people buy more drink than they otherwise would. Read an article about it once. It's something to do with how that vibrating rhythm affects your body's response to sweating etc.

Nonsense. People drink more because they can't talk to the people they're with.

Theres one pub in Dublin I'm thinking of that must have the sound system on a timer. In this place from half 10 the volume increases noticeably on the half hour.

nocoverart · 13-03-2013 12:33am

I'd love a pub with nobody in it but me. I'd have cans at home but I only drink to socialise

Is the music in pubs/clubs too loud?

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