Hear notched music for yourself

Notched music is hard to picture in words. It’s easy once you hear it — so here it is, with your headphones on.

The idea is simple: take music you already enjoy and remove one narrow band of frequencies, centred on the pitch of your tinnitus. Everything else is left alone. Below is the same piece of music twice — once untouched, once with a notch around 4 kHz. You can see the removed band in the picture, and hear how little it changes the song. With Notch Music the notch is centred on your pitch, on your tracks.

The same song, before and after

Play the original, then the notched version. In the picture, the dark stripe is the slim band that’s been lifted out — you can see exactly what’s gone. In your ears, the music still sounds like the music. That’s the whole point: something you can happily listen to for hours.

Original

Notched

Spectrogram of the song, untouched — Untouched

Spectrogram of the song with a notch removed — Notched — same song, one band lifted out

Best heard on headphones. On small phone speakers the change can be hard to catch — that’s the speaker, not the notch.

That’s what Notch Music makes, from your own music

Choose a track from your device, tell it your tinnitus pitch, and it notches the music for you — right in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, your files stay yours, there’s no subscription, and you pay once.

See Notch Music

Notched sound is an approach that has been studied for tonal tinnitus. It doesn’t help everyone and it isn’t a cure — we’d rather be plain about that than oversell it. The research behind it is gathered here. Music sample is a royalty-free track (Pixabay), used here only to demonstrate the effect.