Tinnitus by frequency ยท 6 000 Hz
6,000 Hz is above the top of the piano: a thin, bright, electronic whine with no musical note to compare it to. It is squarely in high-frequency tinnitus territory, where most tinnitus is. Use the box below to hear it, check the octave either side, and compare plain masking noise with the same noise notched at your pitch.
The listening box needs JavaScript and a browser that can make sound. The frequency matcher explains the same thing in words if it cannot run here.
Tone — press again to stop
Masking sound — one minute on this page
Level
That was the minute a browser tab gets. The app plays this all night, built around your own number, with rain, fan, ocean and noise.
Get Sylence on Google PlayStart at the quietest level you can hear. Stop if it makes your ringing louder or uncomfortable. If everyday sounds hurt, stay at the bottom of the ladder. Nothing loads until you press a button, and nothing is uploaded.
An octave down is 3,000 Hz and an octave up is 12,000. Both can pass for “the same note”, so play them before you settle on 6,000. The 5,000 and 7,000 buttons are for the more usual case, a match that is close but not quite.
A sound covers tinnitus best when it has energy near the tinnitus pitch. For a 6 kHz ring that means sounds with plenty of hiss in them: rain, running water, a fan, pink or white noise. Brown noise, distant thunder and ocean rumble are lovely to sleep to, but most of their energy sits far below 6,000 Hz, so on their own they may do little for a ring this high. If a sound you like is not helping, that is often why.
The notched button keeps the hiss and takes out a narrow band at your pitch — the idea behind notched sound therapy, whose evidence that page sets out honestly.
The sharp consonants of speech, s, f, th, sh, carry much of their energy between about 4,000 and 8,000 Hz. Hearing loss in this region often shows up not as things being quieter but as “I can hear people, I just can’t make out what they’re saying”, especially in a noisy room. If that sounds familiar, a hearing test is quick and worth booking. 6,000 Hz is usually part of a standard test, and noise damage often shows there as a dip.
Search for this frequency and you will find hour-long videos of the tone. There is no good evidence that listening to your own tinnitus pitch makes it quieter, and at any real level it is one more high sound for an ear that may already be tired. Use the tone to check your number; use steady background sound to live with it. That is why the tone here stops by itself after 30 seconds.
A thin, bright, electronic whine, higher than any note on a piano. It is a common pitch for high-frequency tinnitus.
Sounds with plenty of high-frequency hiss: rain, running water, a fan, pink or white noise. Low, rumbling sounds such as brown noise carry most of their energy far below 6,000 Hz.
Yes. Tinnitus above about 4,000 Hz is usually called high-frequency, and that is where most people match theirs.
If none of these tones sits on your ringing, the matcher on the home page sweeps from 1,000 to 16,000 Hz and gives you a number in about a minute, free, in the browser.
Then, if it helps: Sylence on Google Play builds rain, fan, ocean and noise around your number, synthesised on the phone. Masking is free, there is no account, and nothing about your tinnitus leaves the device.
Sylence is a sound-therapy and relief tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, or cure tinnitus, and this page is not a hearing test. If your tinnitus is new, sudden, changing, pulsing with your heartbeat, or in one ear only, see an audiologist or a doctor first — sudden one-sided tinnitus in particular is worth urgent attention.