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If a signal has high frequency and low frequency content (different frequencies across the spectrum are present) , how come the low frequencies take up more headroom in the mix and cause the meter to spike up? Is it that low frequency waves have more acoustic energy or something??

If a signal has high frequency and low frequency content (different frequencies across the spectrum are present), how come the low frequencies take up more headroom in the mix and cause the meter to spike up? Is it that low frequency waves have more acoustic energy or something?