Quote Originally Posted by manuel
Quote Originally Posted by mattshephard
think its psychological, stop thinking about it then youll learn to live with it
They havent actually pinpointed what it is yet.
Some doctors say it's neurological others say it's got to do with the hearing.
But i can gurantee you it's not psychological.
Tinitus has to do with permantent damage to the hearing. Attatched to the back of your eardrum are a load of little bones with hammers on the ends. When your eardrum vibrates, it moves the hammers up and down, and these hammers hit nearve endings which send an electrical signal to your brain, which it interprets as sound. Tinitus happens when these little hammers get knakerd from loud music and end up getting stuck to the nerve endings, cuasing a permanent signal to get sent to the brain. Deppending on which,(and how many), hammers and nerve endings are broke, determins what sound and how loud you get it.

My advice,

Stay away from load music as much as possible if you value your hearing! Standing by bass bins is not really a good idea! Earplugs are deffinately a good idea if you want to get to 50 with resonable hearing! Espiecially if you are producing tracks as the higher end of your hearing will get seriusly damaged and you wont be able to here these frequancys at all.