Can anyone recommend a good set of noise reducing ear-plugs (or similar) for helping sleep at a festival? Doing one in August which is right next to an airport. I’ve played it before and it’s a bit of a mare in that respect!
Alpine SleepSoft ( the newer blue one)
If you want max sleep you can get them custom fitted.
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I wear earplugs every night and I use these Quies ones nowadays. I sleep on my side and they’re pretty comfortable, though whatever you use will feel weird at first.
I used to use wax ones from Boots here in the UK which probably blocked out a little bit more noise but tended to gradually mess up your bedding over time and also required a bit more attention on the ear cleaning front.
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while it’s tough for me to fall asleep with anything in my ears, I took the Alpine Party Pro with me to the last festival I went and first time ever managed to fall asleep on a plane. I imagine their Sleep series will be even better for that.
but on the festival ground I sleep better with the subs rocking my hobo pillow made of t-shirts 
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If you’re serious, go custom. I’ve got a pair of ACS custom sleeping ear plugs that basically block out anything. I’m sure there are non-custom alternatives that are good, but nothing compares to custom.
The other nice thing is that once they have your moulds they can make other ear plugs for you, like ones for gigs.
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plus the custom ones easily survive for ten years if take good care of them
I’d recommend getting a sampler pack of different earplugs to see which ones are comfortable enough to sleep in. What’s comfy for five minutes might not be after eight hours.
I use mine every night (noisy cat) and it took me a while to find the perfect type.
You also have to consider silicon allergy if you happen to be part of this unlucky subpopulation. Luckily there are alternatives.
I swear by quies wax earplugs. I’m a side sleeper and find the expanding foam kind irritate me over the course of a night. Wax moulds properly to your ears 
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Yeah big difference between filters. Party Plugs are actually made (the pro’s especially) to attenuate the harmful frequencies. That’s why you’re still able communicate quite well.
But the SleepSofts do not have a filter and just attenuate as much as they can. Their new ones are oval shaped which is unique. But they fit so much better.
They’re 15 dollar or smth so worth giving a shot for sure!
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Bass reduction is the big one that they all seem to fail on. I’m not sure any can block that out, but for people talking while walking past your tent, or a few people shouting “Alan” at random o’clock, then I guess it’s all about comfort.
I keep meaning to take my Airpods Pro 2 to venues to test the noise isolation when engineers overload the bass and crank it up to 11 to the point of ‘near deafening’ to see if those work well enough for gigs. They are great on planes and I didn’t hear somebody shouting my name once when listening to music on the toilet. They literally had to kick and bang the door as they thought i’d collapsed and died in there, which ironically I nearly did from the shock of hearing somebody banging on the toilet door, so I suspect these would work better most other solutions, but would require recharging each night.
To quote the Elacin website in one of my posts here above:
Note! Because sound also enters your body via the nose, mouth and bones (bone conduction), alarm and warning signals remain perceptible.
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