Protecting hearing during sound design sessions

[skilga]

Hello,

whenever I'm doing a sound design session I will put a limiter on my master in case of unexpectedly loud glitches happening.
This helps in most cases however, I haven't found a way of avoiding extremely loud resonances hifreq. sinus tones when messing around with different filters on sounds. Since a 10k sine wave uses way less energy than one at 100 Hz it can get ear piercingly
"loud" before it hits the limiter. Is there a way of protecting oneself from these high pitched glitch sounds?

[dougdi]

How about a multiband compressor? Set a lower threshold on the high band with a fast attack should do it.