The AudioNotch Tinnitus Treatment Blog
Tinnitus Sounds
Please note: the following information does not constitute professional medical advice, and is provided for general informational purposes only. Please speak to your doctor if you have tinnitus.
A person’s tinnitus tone is a unique entity. As far as we know, people’s tones vary across a broad spectrum of human hearing in frequency.
Some tones are simple sine waves, which sound like “pure tones,” and they look like this on a graph:
Other tones sound like static “broadband” noise that is centred at a high frequency, which looks like this:
Still other tinnitus tones sound even more different. These sounds include whooshing noises, rustling sounds, and sounds that are difficult to describe (and since they, by definition, exist only in subjective awareness, they are hard even for the people who have them to reproduce for others).
A web site with a list of tinnitus sound tones is available here. Unfortunately, some of these tones are so “broad” on a frequency spectrum that they are too wide to be “notched,” by notched sound therapy, since the notch width is limited to one Equivalent Rectangular Bandwith on each side.