Personalized tinnitus tone refers to a tone identical to or approximating to the tone perceived by the tinnitus sufferer.

Additionally, the inventor has categorized perceived tinnitus sounds in the form of a “noise catalog”. The inventor has separated tinnitus into two categories: simple and complex. The simple “pure tone” is can be represented with a single waveform and targeted with clustered transformations of that wave. The complex form is the type of tinnitus that people describe as “buzz/fuss” or a “dull roaring”, and is comprised of different pitches at varying volumes. The same principle that applies to the simple cases can also be applied to the more complex cases, i.e. recreating a physical representation of what the patient is hearing and presenting that sound to their brain should invoke the same internal dampening of that noise. To this end the inventor is creating an objective catalog of sounds that can be used to define a vocabulary: when we say “buzzing,” this is the type of noise we mean, and when we say “roaring,” this is the type of noise we mean. The method of the invention can therefore be adjusted to provide to the patient a plurality of Sine Clusters, each comprised of a group of three or more sine waves of similar amplitude but varying frequency. Each sine cluster will be bases on a root frequency. The quality and tone of the sounds may be adjusted to approximate to each of the individual sounds comprising the complex tinnitus sound experienced.

The invention encompasses a treatment that reduces perceived tinnitus by 50-100%.