Hello Bob,

First of all, Thank you for sharing your wisdom and for your help to this music world.

My Question:

Sometime when i design sound effects that has a lot of low freqency, the low freq sound confused, not densed or straight.

So, first question, do you know what i'm talking about? This phenomena has a name?

I noticed that the only thing for me that solved it, was compressing almost limiting, above 10 ratio, with very very little amout of threshold.

usually i'm trying not to effect the dynamics over time of the sample with the attack and release.

It seems the compressor kind of make the low freq more Fundamental.

Many times for example I used it on very processed kinda noise that i used as if it was my kick sound, so on this very short sample

the compressor probably isnt working as the typical "fader riding" usually used in longer sounds.

What am i doing? is this the way to do it?

If i'm making a kick from a sine wave, usually i dont even require this compression becouse the low freq sounds perfect for me.

Also, When i hear low freq in reality it never sound neither confused nor compressed, just real and natural :-)

( I used to work near machines that sounded with a lot of low freq)

I think i never heard a recorded audio material that captured that low freq behavior.

Would love your knowledge on this,

Thank you very much

Tom