CompressiveDistortion.4
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Roy Patterson
One of the reasons that compressive distortion goes largely unnoticed is that the distortion products fall at frequencies where the sound already has at least some energy. Specifically, the distortion produced by cochlear compression of complex harmonic sounds, like the tones of music and speech, falls almost entirely at frequencies that are harmonics of the fundamental of the tone, and sets of adjacent, simultaneous harmonics are grouped together by the auditory system and perceived collectively as a single tone with a low pitch and a complex timbre.
