When it is 'too old'

[PHassan]

Hi guys

In your opinion, is there anything like 'too old' in music business ?

Some of you will say - 'there is not as long as you are having fun' but I'm talking here from a practical point of view.

To be specific - im talking about hearing. Many occupations related to music depend on it - mixing engineers come to mind - i would like to know how older people cope with hearing loss, which sooner or later will creep in.

Is there any upper age limit when you just have to say STOP ?

When you think of it - almost everything related to creative part of music business depends on hearing in some way - so, when it is too late ?

[BertKoor]

It's never too late. B.B. King was still performing at the age of 89.
Deaf composers can still work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_va ... of_hearing
Deaf artists do still work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Town ... aring_loss

But if you're an engineer and you lose hearing above 12 kHz, then you'd better have good assistants I once read an interview with a mixing engineer (sorry I forgot his name) that lost all hearing in one ear. He was still mixing very good albums: delivered a mix in mono and assistants had to do the panning.

[2ZrgE]

Concerning the business part: Marketing gets rather difficult if you're beyond 40 these days. Kids normally don't want to listen to their grandparent's music (except for David Guetta of course).

[thecontrolcentre]

I was recently approached by a promotions / management company looking to expand their artist base. The first question they asked me was "how old are you?" ...

[Michael L]

Its all about creatively managing your own unique and ever-changing mix of awesomeness and limitations. Dont think you can generalize.

[Numanoid]

In your opinion, is there anything like 'too old' in music business ?

Those trying to chat up groupies with jokes like: Do you know the weather in Mexico: Chili today, Hot tamale

That's too old

[thecontrolcentre]

In my experience, groupies don't require much chatting up ...

[tehlord]

Concerning the business part: Marketing gets rather difficult if you're beyond 40 these days.

Andre Rieu disagrees and probably* outsells all the EDM put together.







* or probably not

[BERFAB]

Groucho Marx said, "A man is only as old as the woman he feels."

I'd go with that.

-B

[2ZrgE]

Concerning the business part: Marketing gets rather difficult if you're beyond 40 these days.

Andre Rieu disagrees and probably* outsells all the EDM put together.







* or probably not

Yes it's all about the target audience. Andre Rieu sure is a sex symbol for women beyond 50 (and without musical taste).

But seems that the OP is more interest in engineering and such.

[Numanoid]

Groucho Marx said, "A man is only as old as the woman he feels."

I'd go with that.

Unfortunately too many of BBC personell did the same

[fluffy_little_something]

I think I had a similar thread some time ago because I did one of those hearing tests and of course it is not what it used to be 30 years ago. My hearing stops at about 15kHz or even less. Luckily I never went to clubs, discos, nor do I listen to loud music at home. So given my age I am happy with those 14.5 to 15 kHz.
I doubt many sounds in the music I like are above that frequency anyway. I mean, I listen mostly to the same songs as 30 years ago, and they don't sound muffled or anything. Well, maybe they do and I just don't notice it anymore because I have gradually grown used to it over the decades

[2ZrgE]

And there's always spectral analysers.

[Aloysius]

Music sounds so bad these days, you could probably get away with it even if you had no ears. Just make sausage shaped mixes and masters and you're done.

[2ZrgE]

Hasn't there been a 'Beethoven challenge' on YT where people produced music without hearing what they were producing? A nice excercise nevertheless...