“The way I use them while listening to music, they don’t sound like hearing aids. They just sound like the ears I used to have”: Session ace Tim Pierce on dealing with hearing loss as a pro musician and how hearing aids changed his life

Session pro Tim Pierce is photographed at home, wearing a ballcap and fretting a chord on his guitar.

When legendary session pro Tim Pierce describes music as “a high-risk business” for your hearing he is speaking from experience.

“I listened to a lot of loud guitar amps starting from the age of 12 and I haven’t really stopped,” he says. “And then in later years, being onstage with a drummer, the cymbals were a real source of damage over the years.”