Flare Calmers / Tinnitus

[bubblelord]

Hey there. I've been interested in being able to practice with something that resembles an earplug but is open and doesn't occlude or block out much sound. Have any of you tried the flare calmers or used them practicing? If not, anyone used something similarly open for practicing to take a bit of the edge off?

Best regards

[Doug Elliott]

Anything you use to block your ears, even partially, increases the internal sound you hear. There's a certain amount of cancellation that occurs normally between internal and external sound, and if you block the external entrance it loses the cancellation.