If you use hearing aids during the day, then you just have to do the tinnitus match with your hearing aids on and listen to the sound files with your hearing aids on.

Most patients get instant relief with listening to the therapy sound or the music/sound therapy mix sound. However, for the neuroplastic changes to occur in the brain, it is generally a process of 3-6 months to get you to a point where the tinnitus sound will not be noticeable in daily activities unless you really think and concentrate hard on it.

We generally recommend that you listen to the sound therapy file or music mixed with the sound therapy file any time you hear the tinnitus. Our goal is to have the tinnitus under therapy sound any time it is bothersome. This will allow for faster improvement and reduce the emotional parts of the brain from developing connections with the parts that are producing the tinnitus sound.

The subscription includes unlimited access to the software that creates a sound therapy file based specifically on your tinnitus sound for the duration of the subscription. Many patients experience a change in the pitch of the tinnitus from time to time. This requires that the sound therapy file change because the tinnitus pitch has changed. We recommend 2 tinnitus pitch matches a week for the fist 4 weeks. The sound file can be downloaded on your computer or MP3 and you can listen to it with headphones.

In addition, you get unlimited access to the music therapy part of the site for the duration of the subscription. This allows you to mix your own music with the sound therapy file. This way, you can listen to your favorite music while the sound therapy sound is working in the background.

To keep the cost down you can use your own MP3 player and headphones. If you would like us to send you one, we will do so but there is a separate charge for that. Truthfully, you can get it cheaper on your own on the web since we have to ship it for you and it will cost you a lot more.

You should set the volume of the sound therapy file to the point where you don't hear the tinnitus or just barely hear it.

Generally, we recommend that you use it every time you have annoying tinnitus for at least 10-15 minutes. If after stopping the music or sound therapy file, you still have annoying tinnitus, we recommend you continue to use it.

Please click on "Sign Up Now" on the first page (www.beyondtinnitus.com).

Then click on the duration that you want to sign up for (3, 6, or 12 months) [click where it says, "Add to Cart"], and follow the instructions after that.

Our system does not have a series of beeps but it is customized to your type of tinnitus. The algorithm we have developed is a result of a lot of research into what type of sound works best for each individual patient with various frequencies of tinnitus.

The sound therapy sound file sounds like a sound of the rain, but is completely different from white noise. Inside our sound files, certain sounds are buried that can affect the part of the brain where tinnitus is produced. You can also mix the therapy sound with any MP3 music file you want. This way you can listen to your favorite music and the therapy sound is working in the background.

It is best to do the tinnitus match (target) for the more annoying tone. That generally is the higher frequency (pitch) one. The therapy file generally works for the target frequency and other frequencies that are mathematically related to the dominant one. We have found in many of our patients that the lower frequency one tends to reduce in intensity as well after the high frequency one has subsided in intensity. But sometimes you have to make 2 separate sound therapy or music therapy files for each type of tinnitus and use each when that tinnitus is more annoying.

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No, we recommend that the music therapy module to be used for making music therapy files.

You can only create music therapy files one at a time.

No, each sound and music therapy file is created for the individual for their particular tinnitus pitch, loudness, and sidedness (right or left). Using someone else's files may lead to an increased loudness.

No, the music therapy files have to be custom made through the music therapy module.

We have had a few patients who had this issue, but it resolved after the below recommendations. Sometimes if the sound is too loud or if the music creates too much excitement, it can temporarily make the ringing louder. It is best that you listen to the level of the sound therapy file just loud enough where you can't hear the tinnitus. When using the music therapy file, we generally recommend a softer, relaxing type music and the ramp down in volume over a few minutes where you decrease the volume gradually and don’t abruptly stop the sound or music therapy.

The site will give you the approximate tinnitus frequency in Hertz (cycles per second).

You don't have to download a program for this, it is all done through our program but in your computer's memory - so no upload or downloading is done.

There is no limit on the number of sound files you can make. We generally recommend that you make a new sound file every time your tinnitus changes. We require that you create 2 music files per week.You can currently make an unlimited number of music therapy files, but we will probably limit this in the future. The limit on the size of the file is 25Mb currently.

We have had a number of patients who have had complete relief from the tinnitus for several hours after using the program.However, the therapy cannot completely get rid of tinnitus forever. The reason is that the hearing loss that created the tinnitus is a permanent loss and cannot be fixed. The goal of the therapy is to get you to a point where you can't hear the tinnitus most of the time, but if you really concentrate and listen hard, you will hear it.