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Pre-echo is a psychoacoustic phenomenon where an unusually noticeable artifact is heard in a sound recording from the energy of time domain transients smeared backwards in time after processing in the frequency domain due to the Gibbs phenomenon. Because forward temporal masking is so much stronger than backwards temporal masking, the Gibbs phenomenon can give rise to this audible distortion which sounds like an echo which comes before the actual sound.