Here's my last tip in this thread: stay away from Logic if you want to be as safe as possible in terms of ending up with tinnitus / reduced hearing and all the side effects this may cause.
This is a copy of something I wrote in a thread about a phenomenon described as "The White Noise Blast of Death".
Here's what I wrote:
I can confirm that this problem exists on M3 Macs, in Sonoma, using the current Logic version.
I haven't seen this thread until today.
For those who don't wan t to read 9 pages:
"...multiple Logic users have reported experiencing an extremely loud blast/explosion sound that shows up on Logic's meter as being between 500-800db (which is impossible, but whatever the actual value is, it is EXTREMELY loud). Some users have reported permanent hearing damage and tinnitus caused by the WNBOD, and neither Apple or the Logic community have found a solution. Unfortunately I was wearing headphones when this happened, so I experienced bad headaches and aching ears last night, and they were ringing for a few hours. Thankfully today my ears and hearing are back to normal."
Also: "While a lot of people have had this problem in Logic before, I honestly think VEPro could be the culprit here. (I've experienced loud blasts in Logic in the past, but nothing like this)."
I have never used VEPro, and have had that thing twice. I've had a couple of tinnitus accidents in the past, which may explain why these two this last 'blast of death' incidents created even more tinnitus – which did NOT go away.
"I hate to say this but when I googled WNBOD most of the reports were from Logic users."
Scary.
"It's actually the reason I left Logic many years ago. I worked with Apple for 6 months on it. They literally did everything they could from upgrading my computer for free, to giving me the latest OS's for free. No one could get rid of the issue. The last time I did it, I ended up full out punching myself right in the face and almost blacked myself out from having headphones on and it doing it."
I also contacted Apple about it, but they haven't responded.
"This noise blast is a known problem with Logic and a serious threat to one's health." It sure is.
Here's someone who had it in Cubase as well, but...
"Then Cubase implemented this feature where if your driver crashed it would mute the audio outputs so you wouldn't get this. Then I only insisted on getting good audio interfaces with stable drivers and haven't had that problem since that time.
Changing your audio interface should solve it-- that Logic hasn't implemented that simple feature borders on cruel and inhumane."
"So all to say, the WNBOD problem in Logic could be as simple as Logic temporarily losing track of it's "place" in the bitstream? Obviously a catastrophic error though." Catastrophic it is.
And it gets more scary:
"Sticking a limiter on the master won't help I'm afraid. The noise burst bypasses everything straight to your interface and monitors. It's not just a logic issue either, it's systemwide. Have a search and you'll see people have had the same bursts in itunes, spotify, web browsers etc for years. It's certainly becoming more and more frequent in logic though. I've read it's a digital timing issue with core audio, but no-one can nail it down."
This, unfortunately, sums it up (this was an answer to a question about Logic, like Reaper, has a setting that automatically mutes any audio spikes over a certain decibel level, so the user is protected.
The Blast of Death thread is here:
Yesterday I was working away on a project in Logic, and one of the tracks was buzzing a little bit (some sort of glitch). So I ended up deleting that track (as I didn't need it), and unloaded the sample library it was using in VEPro. Shortly after this, I got the "white noise blast of death"...
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