Recent content by Frederick86

@MisterD Oh and also you may want to join the "UltraQuiet Theraphy" thread, is on this same page of the forum and there are several users talking about doing a DIY approach to it, as the company is a bit in stand by at the moment. That therapy would use an approach similar to Dichonics...

@MisterD As I understand it, I think that is very different from neuromonics as they don't mix the music with the exact, steady tinnitus frequency as that guy did. I've read similar experiences but those must work due to neural plasticity of the auditory cortex, not habituation as neuromonics...

@SoulStation Good to know, at least for the moment I'll focus on learning basic skills with Audacity in case I need it, I'll let the pro stuff for people who know more... Any news about the tests, @Steve ? Would it be useful if I, having probably a very different tinnitus than you, buy a bone...

@SoulStation Are these Audacity plugins or other software? Right now I don't know anything about audio editing, but I could learn if there's need for more people to make tests so we can figure out the exact way to replicate the paper protocol.

@MisterD If what you want is a real sound therapy, there's much better options than neuromonics or trt stuff, those don't lower the volume, they just work with your reaction to it. To really lower the volume, look in this same forum for two options: Acoustic Coordinated Reset (ACRN) if your T...

@Steve If I remember it correctly, the paper I read said they used music transposed to the 10-20 khz range. Maybe sine waves are not so good, or including sound less than 10 khz was counterproductive? What about trying classical music with a broad range of frequencies and transposing it to...

@RoyZ Notched white noise is tested up to 13khz and is supposed to be equally effective in all that range. But there is a formula to calculate the notch and based on what you wrote it seems you made it a bit too wide. This is the whole paper with the data on how the notch is created and the...

@RoyZ By what I've read, ACRN is good in that it can even half the volume, but notched white noise could be better, as it gets to 15db reduction. Most people's tinnitus is in the 10-20db volume range (although if it is high frequency it feels louder because normal everyday noises don't mask...

@jazz As I've always read about RI, you're supposed to get it by listening to white noise for at least 60 seconds at a volume just covering the tinnitus. Then, if it works for you, you'd get about 2-3 seconds of suppression. @RoyZ Have you read about Notched White Noise and Dichonics? These in...

@jazz is right about this, I think. Based in what we know about plasticity of the brain, all the treatments that get volume reduction, like ACRN and notched sound, take about 3 months to get good results, and more time to consolidate them. If we read about neuronal rehabilitation for things...

@Robb Maybe it's useful for you to know that eardrum holes are not always that risky. In the recent years I had otitis in both ears, each with a slight perforation of the eardrum. I had some buzzing those days that later dissapeared. My normal T has been slightly worsening lately, but I suspect...

@Steve As I read twice the paper, there's still something confusing to me... I understand what sine waves are, but I wonder why the researchers concluded this was better done with music. Could it be something about the complexity of the patterns in music? I'd find interesting to try both, music...

@earflappin According to the paper, the stimulus for this therapy is music altered to sound in the 10-20khz range, that is, a whole melody translated to the high frequencies, and would be the same for every person, with the exception that it also states that the music must be "well removed from...

When you say pure tones, it means you tried several frequencies with 90bpm? How many hours of RI did you achieved?

@Steve Great! I think it could be important to check the need for customized stimulus in the case of those with very high frequency tones, as the paper seems to state this as important: Muhlnickel et al. [23] explored the reorganization of the auditory cortex in tinnitus, using...