World's Smallest Sound Machine

[Ray200]

I've had one of these for a few days. From Sound Oasis. Model S-002. Has 24 different tracks. Useful. Glad I have it. However, only a few work for me. Surf noise from Hawaiian waves (track 14) might seem an attractive option to the easily impressed, but it's something like a resonating heavy industrial fan whine noise (not one of the 24) that gives relief from T. Doesn't look pretty in print, that latter description, does it.

Works by having a Sound Card inserted in it. There is an option to go to the manufacturer and get them to knock up a custom recorded sound card for you. But any sounds you pick must surely be on a hit or miss basis.

Long shot this. Does anyone know the technical spec for the Sound Card employed? Ideally, I would like to find a machine I could record the sounds that work for me on such an independently bought card.

[waterfalls123456]

I use Spotify and save my own playlists that play for 10 hrs+.... I have gregorian chants, hawaiaan music, ocean waves, among my choices. There are other recordings for sleep too. I guess you coukd upload your own music if you are a musician. The other great app is 'insight timer' from playstore or app store. This has new age and other music plus relaxation exercises

[Ray200 in reply to waterfalls123456]

Thank you for your reply. I see the way forward with T for me is to go onto Amazon and search on 'Audio Recorder'. To enable the recording of sounds that do it for me. For example, I didn't realise until T struck how noisy buses are (Stagecoach in the Gloucester, England, area). Well, not that noisy but the sound frequency the engine provides ideally masks my T. I find the same with fan extractors. I must admit that the occasional full on T I get drains my patience and I want to hide it immediately. Not scroll through numerous sounds someone else has provided they think might do the job.

[TinnitusUKPat Partner in reply to Ray200]

Hello Ray.

Sound Oasis is a company founded by audiologists who worked with patients for a number of years before launching their products - there will be a broad range of sounds in their devices which correspond with the frequencies which most end users are likely to struggle to perceive.

That you can't find a sound which exactly matches the pitch or tone of your tinnitus shouldn't be surprising - that's the kind of work you would do with an audiologist who was fitting you for hearing aids or masking devices.

The approach that you suggest - sourcing a digital recorder and transferring the files you record onto an SD card which you would use in your Sound Oasis product - is certainly worth trying, although sound therapy/sound enrichment is only part of managing tinnitus.

Getting to the point where you don't feel that you need to hide tinnitus or obscure it isn't going to be something that you do with sound alone. It's as much a psychological adjustment as anything - changing how you feel about it is a goal to work towards too.

[Ray200 in reply to TinnitusUKPat]

Thanks, Pat. Especially for the background of Sound Oasis. There's so much about T to grasp as a newbie. I'm heading off towards mask sounds first due to a recent experience of having a pint in a pub on my own, and the T was intense enough to distress me to leave the pint and head off home. Well, I did drink up, every quickly. I need a defence when that happens again.

[Graham-E]

Hi and thanks for posting. Sorry I do not have an answer for you.

However it brings me to the question of how do you receive the sounds at night please!

I have an old Oasis sound machine that plugs into a pillow (my main use) and can play on the bed side table if you unplug it.

I don’t use that option because I don’t want to bother others with the sound.

Does your new small sound generator connect to a pillow with the two small speakers via a audio jack plug please?

Thanks and I hope you find an answer.

[Ray200 in reply to Graham-E]

Hello Graham. Yes the marketers of my device do sell pillow speakers for it. But you needn't have theirs. The 3.5mm jack on it will take a full size headphones and play well with that connected.

[BiteyDelano]

Ray - thanks for mentioning 'resonating heavy industrial fan whine noise' - it prompted me to see if youtube had something similar.

I found this: youtube.com/watch?v=9l9IHPI...(Not working as expected?)

Seems to work somewhat for me, so thanks again!

[Ray200 in reply to BiteyDelano]

And me, Bitey! Takes me back nearly half a century when I had a student holiday job in a factory that had shut down for two weeks for the annual holidays to clean an eight of a inch industrial grime off the blades of those things.

When I get my sound recorder, I'll be searching the net for an English Electric Lightening jet fighter warming up and taking off. Saw a nine minute programme on those excellent aircraft on a 'Look At Life' feature on Talking Pictures.

[BiteyDelano]

I trust the fan wasn't making that noise while you were cleaning it!

There are a number of interesting vids on youtube on the superb English Electric Lightening ...

good luck