Soundcheck Music School Partners with Spares to Promote Hearing Protection During “Protect Your Hearing Month"
This October, SoundCheck Music School in Canoga Park, CA has teamed up with Spares High-Fidelity Earplugs to raise awareness about one of the most overlooked aspects of musicianship - protecting your hearing.
As part of October’s National Protect Your Hearing Month, SoundCheck Music School is providing each of its 150+ students with a complimentary pair of Spares Earplugs, designed to reduce harmful noise levels without muffling sound quality. Students are learning that once hearing is damaged, it doesn’t recover - and that even familiar spaces like rehearsal rooms or live shows can regularly exceed 85 decibels, the threshold where long-term exposure can cause permanent hearing loss.
Co-founded by vocalist Electra Barakos and her husband Dan Welby, SoundCheck Music School has become one of the San Fernando Valley’s most respected hubs for music education.
Electra, a renowned rock vocalist and finalist on The Voice of Greece, has toured internationally and worked alongside major producers and musicians throughout her career. Her passion for music education stems from her belief that technical skill and emotional connection go hand in hand. Together with Dan, a lifelong musician and music educator, they created SoundCheck Music School to help students of all ages develop their craft, collaborate with other artists, and gain real-world performance experience.
SoundCheck Music School doesn’t just teach music - it builds performers. Students regularly take the stage at local San Fernando Valley area venues including Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas and The Arena in Simi Valley, performing in front of live audiences to gain confidence, stage presence, and professional readiness.
Now, through this partnership with Spares, SoundCheck Music School is helping its students safeguard the most important musical instrument they’ll ever own - their ears.
Spares Hi-Fidelity Earplugs feature a non-insertion, stainless-steel acoustic filter design that sits comfortably at the entrance of the ear, delivering 30dB of reduction across harmful frequency ranges without compromising sound clarity. Whether students are rehearsing, performing, or enjoying a concert from the crowd, Spares ensures they hear every note safely and clearly.
“We want our students to develop lifelong habits that protect their ability to enjoy music - not just perform it,” says Electra. “This partnership with Spares fits perfectly with that mission.”
SoundCheck Music School’s dedication to nurturing the next generation of musicians - paired with Spares’ mission to make hearing protection accessible and practical - makes this collaboration a perfect harmony.
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