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Blogging User Questions: Part 2 – How Accurately Do I Have to Tune?
Written by AudioNotch Team on June 16, 2012
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Jamie Asks:
How accurate does the match have to be? I’m having difficulty matching my tinnitus frequency to the computer generated frequency on the tuner.
We do have some tolerance built into our procedure. The notch width is actually based on the average frequency selectivity of a person, and is two equivalent rectangular bandwidths (ERB).
The ERB is dependent on frequency, so if your tinnitus frequency is 10,000 Hz (10 kHz), the ERB is about 1000 Hz, which means you’d have to get within a 1000Hz of your true tinnitus frequency (ERB = 107.94*f +24.7 = 107.94*10 + 24.7 = 1104 Hz).
Many people notice a (small) immediate drop in the volume of their tinnitus upon listening to white noise for 2 minutes when the therapy has been correctly tuned. I would recommend registering for the trial and seeing if this works for you, using the white noise player (which can be set to repeat) on the listen page.
Cheers,
AudioNotch.
AudioNotch.