Tinnitus pitch spans the entire region of hearing loss, not a single frequency

Evidence

Although tinnitus pitch matching can have very poor test-retest reliability, the frequencies that best match tinnitus frequencies are generally in the range of hearing loss (Henry & Miekle, 2000). Clinical pitch matching uses pure tones, but in the majority of cases, tinnitus cannot easily be described as pure tone. To address the limitations of clinical pitch matching, Noreña, Micheyl, Chéry-Croze, and Collet (2002) and later Roberts, Moffat, Baumann, Ward, and Bosnyak (2008) developed a pitch similarity rating method that was designed to determine whether multiple frequencies were involved in tinnitus. Across over 100 listeners, both studies found that all frequencies in the region of hearing loss were assigned high similarity to the tinnitus pitch. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1744

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme of cochlear damage and reorganization producing phantom percepts; plausible ties to edge theory of tinnitus generation elsewhere in the field. — connects to: Tinnitus arises without an external acoustic source, likely from central nervous system mechanisms.; Hearing loss causes the brain to amplify then fabricate sound as tinnitus — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 331; Noise-induced hearing loss can unmask audible difference tones (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 1744

Broader Connections

• Hearing loss causes the brain to amplify then fabricate sound as tinnitus #expands (0.85) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 331
• Auditory sensitivity varies nonuniformly across the frequency range #corroborates (0.80) — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 648
• Noise-induced hearing loss can unmask audible difference tones #expands (0.72)