This is a review of Smooth Operator from Baby Audio. You can check out smooth operator at this link bit.ly/3gFGesC #BabyAudio #smoothOperator Also check out the Faders Up Podcast bit.ly/3f3WeBH
Beautiful. This was exactly what I clicked the video for. To the point and precise explanation, short and sensible demonstration, fair comparison! Good job
I note that when the Center Bull's Eye overall threshold button is dragged up or down, there is a db scale that appears while dragging that node. That scale may or may not apply to the reduction amounts one observes at the GUI top during operation.
Wow for rap music you know how to do it. MUSICAL. Sounds fantastic bro. I see a lot of people doing it all wrong just trying to spit out words and thats it.
This is probably one of the BEST demos of this plugin. Hands down. You showed how it works, you showed it in context of solving problems, and spent time actually showing it working and problem solving. Solid work sir. :)
i test it and for me it is like a dynamic EQ same as Pro Q3 and TDR Nova and you can reach same results with the both even the free TDR NOVA gives you a really minor Ratio as no other compressor do... All of that this is not comparable to Soothe2... Soothe2 is a swiss knife and do this cuts more precisly and Tame harshness much better ... But smooth operator is a good option for clearing mud in Synths, instruments and Vocals :-) without cutting too much highs, sounding very natural... Best advice i can give, is using Smooth Operator for the bigger EQ problems and soothe2 after that for the tiny tweaks of harshness.... this way i got best results...
i've tried this yesterday (on acoustic and electric guitars) and i'm impressed by how easy it is to use and effective as well. i still have to check this with other instruments and vocals as well.
Great and clear clear review and reference point. 😎, of course H M R are all our greatest production enemy ...so often hard to correct...so thanks 🙏..ps great production on your untreated tracks...top tip on the saturation
Thank you very much for the video. If we compare with the competitors in the market like soothe and Gullfoss, what do you think about oversampling is not existing in this plugin?
I've had my eye on this plugin in recently while waiting on soothe to go on sale. With that said, I like the simplicity of it in the example, however the "shh" aspects of this artists are very prominent. For instance "fluCTUaTION" "NegoTIAtas" etc. No amount of eq will fix that. Straight to automation on those particular problems so they don't stick out like a sore thumb. Having said that, solid tutorial per usual.
Soothe 2 is pricey. I picked it up on sale last year. I'll be doing a follow-up video comparing this to soothe, But I would take smooth operator for a test drive and see how you like it
finally is good to have both of them but for finishing a mix and master or for more precise work the Soothe2 works better for bigger problems in greater regions of a single Audio smooth operator will be better decision...
So how does it know the difference between the root note (most prominent)... and a"bad/harsh/muddy frequency? Is there just a subtraction / mirror image of the highest peaks? What am I missing? Thanks
it’s just looking at whatever frequency passes the threshold and mirroring the dbs over with under- but it won’t know the fundamental frequency…you still have to know your frequencies for mud ie 350hz etc
Thanks for this tutorial. I‘d like to know if soothe 2 can do similar things, or is that a completely different plugin! Does anybody of your readers or do you know that?
Soothe2 is different it do cuts more precise way controlled by an AI , you can do very very tiny cuts with it ... This smooth operator one is a Dynamic EQ with a different kind of compression in it, thats why all people say it is not a dynamic EQ but at the end it do the same in a bit different way... But smooth operator do a good job if you have a bigger region with Problems in it on Vocals, Synth and instruments.... Thats what came out in my test :-)
There is a new and free Gullfoss update incl. a second Plugin called Gullfoss Live....that one does the job in real time with much lower latency....and doesn't suck the life out of your cpu
Why is Smooth Operator referencing white noise??? Gullfoss and Soothe reference the pink noise slope with good reason. Does Baby Audio know that the human ear prefers pink noise over white noise? Compare the spectral slope of any commercial mix with that of the pink noise slope. If you pull Smooth Operator down in its default setting, all sources sound thin. The reference is supposed to be the pink noise slope. Please fix this Baby Audio.
Great tutorial. Excellent demo. To your audience: If your own Soothe or MSD this is redundant. This is nothing like Gullfoss. They don't even compare. If you're asking, you shouldn't be mastering.
@@MappingSubber if you want it to effect everything thats on the bus put it on the bus, but if you only want to effect a certain track then put it on that track so the other vocals wont be effected by it
