Chrizm
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a colleague and I bought some of this last year, first time we used them his broke leaving a bit in his ear so be careful!
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DIY earplug silcone goo
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Haven't taken any pics of the monitors, but they are superb......the sound (as you'd expect as they are Shure 215 ear monitors ) is top quality and they fit beautifully.
I had enough to make a pair of plugs as well.....just got a bit of leather string (i got a couple of metres of that a while back for a quid a meter or similar) and knotted the ends, balled the goo around the knots and poked the stuff in (starting from the centre of the ear)
Work really well......not perhaps quite as pretty as the UE ones, but I'm more than happy with the result
(little silver ring around one indicates it's the RIGHT side)
I had enough to make a pair of plugs as well.....just got a bit of leather string (i got a couple of metres of that a while back for a quid a meter or similar) and knotted the ends, balled the goo around the knots and poked the stuff in (starting from the centre of the ear)
Work really well......not perhaps quite as pretty as the UE ones, but I'm more than happy with the result
(little silver ring around one indicates it's the RIGHT side)
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None on trashing the headphones but you might go through a few sets of putty if your rubbish.
Yep what Marki said.
As long as you don't get goo up the hole in the end of the rubber tip of the monitor, I can't see how you could go wrong enough to damage the expensive bit.
There are quite a few vids on how to do it on YT, but I decided do it in a combination of ways I'd seen.....
I found the right rubber tip for me (spent an hour wearing each type that fitted, to make sure they stayed comfy)
Then, I put them in, stood in front of a mirror (ewww) with another hand mirror available to get the right angle to see in my ear (IYSWIM)
Washed hands and ears, dried.
I then mixed up just under 1/4 of each colour (white and deep purple putty) in my fingers, and whilst the ear monitor was IN, I squidged the stuff around it, aiming for the deepest crevices first.....wiggled it all about a bit, squidged it a bit more, then did the other side.
I also placed the flat of my hand across the surface to make sure nothing was going to be sticking out further than the flats of my ears IYSWIM, but even if there was in the end, I would have been able to shave the proud bits with a razor blade
I pushed a small plastic bead into the RHS plug while it was squidgy to designate it Right hand side for later ease of use (I would have put a Green and red bead in the port and starboard side if I had thought about it properly first)
After 15 mins I gently eased them out and trimmed some thin edges up with a pair of nail scissors (where I'd gone into the conch part of my ear)
There were two small areas where the putty hadn't met across the barrel of the monitors, so i mixed two tiny bits of the putty and made tiny sausages of goo which I bridged over with, then held the things back in my ears to form them again.
That's it, simple as
Oh, I also trimmed the silicone back from where the detachable leads fit the main body of the monitors, so I can change the lead if i need to.
The surface of the monitor versions isn't as smooth as the surface of my old Ultimate Ear ones, but they make a second casting of the initial mould and smooth it somehow......but these work, and I'm very happy with them.
As the putty is so cheap, you could always make a trial pair using a set of off-the shelf cheapo earbuds......as long as the bodies of them are not pushed by your helmet when in, it should work.
Yep what Marki said.
As long as you don't get goo up the hole in the end of the rubber tip of the monitor, I can't see how you could go wrong enough to damage the expensive bit.
There are quite a few vids on how to do it on YT, but I decided do it in a combination of ways I'd seen.....
I found the right rubber tip for me (spent an hour wearing each type that fitted, to make sure they stayed comfy)
Then, I put them in, stood in front of a mirror (ewww) with another hand mirror available to get the right angle to see in my ear (IYSWIM)
Washed hands and ears, dried.
I then mixed up just under 1/4 of each colour (white and deep purple putty) in my fingers, and whilst the ear monitor was IN, I squidged the stuff around it, aiming for the deepest crevices first.....wiggled it all about a bit, squidged it a bit more, then did the other side.
I also placed the flat of my hand across the surface to make sure nothing was going to be sticking out further than the flats of my ears IYSWIM, but even if there was in the end, I would have been able to shave the proud bits with a razor blade
I pushed a small plastic bead into the RHS plug while it was squidgy to designate it Right hand side for later ease of use (I would have put a Green and red bead in the port and starboard side if I had thought about it properly first)
After 15 mins I gently eased them out and trimmed some thin edges up with a pair of nail scissors (where I'd gone into the conch part of my ear)
There were two small areas where the putty hadn't met across the barrel of the monitors, so i mixed two tiny bits of the putty and made tiny sausages of goo which I bridged over with, then held the things back in my ears to form them again.
That's it, simple as
Oh, I also trimmed the silicone back from where the detachable leads fit the main body of the monitors, so I can change the lead if i need to.
The surface of the monitor versions isn't as smooth as the surface of my old Ultimate Ear ones, but they make a second casting of the initial mould and smooth it somehow......but these work, and I'm very happy with them.
As the putty is so cheap, you could always make a trial pair using a set of off-the shelf cheapo earbuds......as long as the bodies of them are not pushed by your helmet when in, it should work.
I got a kit from EarFuze (as per Stubbs recommendation earlier) in the US, ear monitors and goo for 3 ears (a practice ear apparently) which I never used. The quality of the sound is very good and making them was the same process as yours, very easy.
Pretty good for £40 delivered, not as cheap as yours but still pretty good.
What cables do you need for the shure monitors?
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