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[user905133]

I researched a method and read up on the theory behind it on the internet a few years before the pandemic. Not sure if newer articles are based on the same material I read.  Here's the basic theory I took away:

Since the brain is busy turning up the gain for frequencies the ears no longer hear, you can train your brain not to amplify your tinnitus frequency/frequencies by doctoring up music and listening to it.  I forgot how the doctoring was done in the method I read about, but IIRC it involved adjacent frequencies that could be detected by the ear.  I'll have to see if I saved links to that material.  But as I understood it from a psychology of music perspective, it was sort of related to masking, but where the adjacent frequencies (hence "notched") allowed the brain to not try so hard to make up for the one it couldn't detect.

I am missing the details and I might have some of this wrong, but it sounded credible to me.

At the time I was sitting in on some public lectures given locally by someone from IRCAM who turned me on to some other research regarding tinnitus.  I forgot the name of the principal investigator, but I recall another article that talked about at least one other systematic method of distraction that resulted in lowering the distraction of tinnitus. 

Nothing I read about used electro-shock therapy on the tongue (or any place else).

Edited Wednesday at 08:41 PM by user905133
fixed typo

[Sailor55]

On 8/18/2025 at 2:21 PM, Bristol_Jonesey said:

You do know you can add notes to every track in your project yes?

Actually, no, I didn't know that. And I have no idea how to do it.  I can put textual notes in the note browser, but notes on individual tracks?... Google AI says this can be done through the event list. Huh? I think they're meaning musical notes, not textual notes.  

[Amberwolf]

1 hour ago, Sailor55 said:

Actually, no, I didn't know that. And I have no idea how to do it.  I can put textual notes in the note browser, but notes on individual tracks?.

In my ancient SONAR from around a couple decades ago, it's done in the track properties dialog; I can put in around 30,000 characters IIRC.  (might be 32k to do the binary thing, can't remember...never used that many). 

[Base 57]

4 hours ago, Sailor55 said:

And I have no idea how to do it.  I can put textual notes in the note browser, but notes on individual tracks?

There is a notes pane in the Inspector for each Track.  

In the Track View there is a notes pane in the header for each individual Take Lane. And there is a notes pane in the header for all Track Folders.

 

[msmcleod]

On the subject of tinitus... I had it for 2 or 3 years.  During the day it didn't bother me too much, but getting to sleep was a nightmare.  I was getting only 3-4 hours sleep during that time.

I started using one of these twice a day, and it completely cleared it up:
 

My theory was that as we get older, you get more hair in your ears and they're liable to pick up more sweat/oil/wax.  These pretty much remove that.

Obviously YMMV, but if the cause was the same as mine, this may well help tremendously - and it'll cost you less than $10 a year.

[user905133]

3 hours ago, msmcleod said:

On the subject of tinitus... I had it for 2 or 3 years.  During the day it didn't bother me too much, but getting to sleep was a nightmare.  I was getting only 3-4 hours sleep during that time.

I started using one of these twice a day, and it completely cleared it up . . . .

Did you also have high frequency loss and if so, did this help with that?  I ask because my range starts disappearing somewhere between 2600Hz and 3000Hz.  I have attributed that to repeated exposure for workplace fire alarms, but it would be great to find out the sound is just being filter out by ear clutter!

[Sailor55]

11 hours ago, Base 57 said:

There is a notes pane in the Inspector for each Track.  

In the Track View there is a notes pane in the header for each individual Take Lane. And there is a notes pane in the header for all Track Folders.

Ah yes, I see it. A handy "description" field.  Many Thanks!

[Amberwolf]

15 hours ago, msmcleod said:

My theory was that as we get older, you get more hair in your ears and they're liable to pick up more sweat/oil/wax.  These pretty much remove that.

Obviously YMMV, but if the cause was the same as mine, this may well help tremendously - and it'll cost you less than $10 a year.

Oh, if only it was that simple and easy.    But thank you for posting it for those that it *will* help.

[mettelus]

I wouldn't recommend something physical for ear wax removal due to the risk of rupturing the drum. They also sell liquid kits. Debrox uses carbamide peroxide, but hydrogen peroxide works just as well (although the spray bulb from a kit is useful for rinsing). H2O2 actually dissolves the outer wax layer (can hear it fizz), so if there is a physical plug in your ear it will come out in one lump. It is also a good way to monitor buildup (no fizzle, no wax), but not something to daily or even monthly (depends on the individual). As that really falls in the medical realm, it is worth asking your doctor about.

Physical instruments make me cringe, and I have not seen one designed yet that would remove a plug against the drum without risk. Just be cautious with products out there