A hearing protection device (100) is disclosed as including at least a firstaudio signalprocessor (P1) with a first audio signal frequency filter (F1) and a firstaudio signalcompressor (C1) and a second audio signal processor (P n) with a second audiosignalfrequency filter (F n) and a second audio signal compressor (C n), the firstaudio signalprocessor and the second audio signal processor being arranged in parallelwith one another,the first audio signal processor being adapted to pass audio signals within afirst frequencyrange and to compress the audio signals within the first frequency range whenthe volume ofthe audio signals within the first frequency range is above a first thresholdvolume, and thesecond audio signal processor being adapted to pass audio signals within asecond frequencyrange and to compress the audio signals within the second frequency range whenthe volumeof the audio signals within the second frequency range is above a secondthreshold volume.
