I get tinnitus when it's really quiet and it feels a lot like my brain is just turning up the gain so much it picks up the noise floor. Some audio cleaning too

I get tinnitus when it's really quiet and it feels a lot like my brain is just turning up the gain so much it picks up the noise floor. Some audio cleaning tools can do the same if applied incorrectly. It makes sense hearing loss would make this worse. Less signal more gain needs to be applied.