tinnitus

Here are some finding with regard to tinnitus treatment.

finding tinnitus tone

tinnitus matching

On this site, it definitely seems to be

F8 ---- 11175 Hz to loo F# Gb 8 -=> 11839 Hz G8 ---- 12543 Hz to hi (maybe not !! just try this as well !?) A8 ---- unhearable, so too high

Here is an alternate way of generating the 'gap' :

ffmpeg -i inputfile.mp3 -filter:a "equalizer=f=1000:t=h:w=2:g=-90, equalizer=f=1500:t=h:w=10:g=-90" outputfile.mp3

ffmpeg

The first tinnitus wave i had was a much lower frequency and it fell within the range of normal mp3 songs. So that gave reason to alter all my mp3 files with the following script (~/bin/tinnit.sh)

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#mkdir -p 9680 # 2022 ? i thought this was the tone
mkdir -p 11839 # 2025, it certainly seems more like this

for file in *.mp3
do
    #ffmpeg -i "$file" -af "bandreject=f=9680:width_type=h:w=600:mix=1" "9680/${file}"
    ffmpeg -i "$file" -af "bandreject=f=11839:width_type=h:w=600:mix=1" "11839/${file}"
done

However doing this and viewing it with spectrum3d it shows that it is completely out of the bandwidth. so mp3 altering is of no use.

sox

Then over to sox to generate white noise that does cover the range. First generate random noise (100 seconds)

sox -c1 -n result.wav synth 100 whitenoise 

Then we can cut the gap at 11839 with a command like this, and save it as mp3

ffmpeg -i result.wav -af "bandreject=f=11839:width_type=h:w=600:mix=1" 11839.mp3

Play it and i really think after two runs it is already better !!! Let's see how it looks with spectrum3d :

spectrum3d

This does not seem to compile and run on debian 12, so i stepped back to debian 11. That means a number of steps sadly.

First create a VM with vagrant.

vagrant init debian/bullseye64
vim Vagrantfile  # enable gui 
vagrant up 
vagrant ssh

Add yourself as user otherwise you can't login to MATE :

Then it roughly takes these steps, probably more.

apt-get install mate-desktop-task
apt-get install make gcc 
apt-get install gtk-3.0
apt-get install libsdl-dev
apt-get install libgstreamer-1.0
./configure 
make
cd src/ 
vim Makefile  # and add -fcommon to the CFLAGS 
make
sudo make install
spectrum3d

In spectrum3d you can open the 11839.mp3 file and see :