Sonic Relief
Sonic Relief
Find Your Pattern, Find Relief: Sonic Relief offers a customizable patterned sound experience designed to help you manage tinnitus through patterned noise and silence, complemented by visual pacing and progress tracking.
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How It Works
Tailor your sound experience by choosing noise types (white, pink, brown), adjusting sound and silence intervals, and setting session lengths to match your comfort and needs.
Many users find that after a pattern session, their tinnitus is temporarily reduced or even silenced for a period, sometimes up to 30 seconds or more. This effect, known as residual inhibition, can offer brief moments of quiet.
Optionally log your subjective tinnitus levels before and after sessions to monitor trends over time and understand what works best for you.
Two Things That Can Make Tinnitus Easier
I’ve lived with tinnitus for 30 years, and two simple things have helped me cope. First, I stopped viewing constant ringing as a curse and started seeing it as proof I’m still alive. Second, I discovered a simple trick that can give me a 30-second pocket of almoast silence. Just knowing I can get that sometimes takes a bit of the edge off.
That’s trick is the core of Sonic Relief. Years ago, I started experimenting with short bursts of noise followed by pauses—and found that this pattern could quiet my tinnitus, even if only briefly. At the same time, there has been a lot of research supporting this idea. It’s not a cure, and it doesn’t work for everyone, but I hope it can offer similar moments of relief to you.
- Klas Ehnemark, Sonic Relief
Understanding the Approach
Patterned sound therapy—brief bursts of noise interleaved with silence—does more than mask tinnitus: it actively taps into the ear’s natural “reset” mechanism, known as residual inhibition, to quiet the phantom ringing for seconds or even minutes at a time. By timing noise pulses just right, you can disrupt the synchronized over-firing of auditory neurons that underlies tinnitus, engage the brain’s inhibitory circuits, and promote plastic changes in the central gain control. Studies comparing amplitude-modulated and pulsed narrow-band stimuli have consistently shown stronger and longer-lasting suppression than steady masking noise alone.
Our app brings these research insights directly to you, letting you tailor the noise type, burst length, and silence interval to recreate the precise conditions that evoke residual inhibition. Whether you’re chasing that 30-second pocket of silence or exploring longer pauses, each pattern is grounded in peer-reviewed work on auditory plasticity and neural desynchronization. It won’t cure tinnitus outright, and results vary, but if it can give you even a few seconds of relief, we’d love to hear how it works for you.
What Users Are Saying
"For the first time in ages, I found a moment of actual quiet after a session. It's not a cure, but that moment is precious."
- Alex P.
"The patterned brown noise really helps take the edge off. Being able to track my levels can make a difference over time."
- Jamie L.
"Simple, but effective for me."
- Casey B.