Baby Audio Smooth Operator - A must have on vocals

[@johnghadimi]

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. :)

[@VintageFlowers]

You did an amazing job at explaining the whole workflow and this was the only video I could find regarding that. Thanks a bunch

[@akagerhard]

Beautiful. This was exactly what I clicked the video for. To the point and precise explanation, short and sensible demonstration, fair comparison! Good job

[@raylantrevor54]

a tip : watch series on Flixzone. I've been using it for watching a lot of movies lately.

[@victornickolas9036]

@Raylan Trevor yup, been using Flixzone} for years myself :D

[@ALLGOOD_MUSIC]

Good video. Songs dope hope you released it!

[@ldersch]

Best tutorial/review of this I've seen yet. Thanks Czar!

[@retsmej]

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.

[@TimiTamminen]

Brilliant tutorial, loving your clarity and knowledge! Appreciate the gems ✊🏻🔥

[@markdavenport6903]

I've had it for 20 min and already adding it to the ⛓

[@VincentCorver]

Great stuff brother. Just grabbed myself a copy.

[@stevegalante]

Sounds really nice, it would be interesting to see in the vertical scale how many dBs it is reducing

[@johnchristiancaldwell4403]

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.

[@TheAudioCzar]

Yeh I kind of wanted that to

[@droconnor]

Thanks, just subscribed and gonna listen to Faders Up. Cheers.

[@beatkultr]

Good review. I just may give this a shot. I like what this is doing

[@Wizardofvoz2]

Had this one since it came out. Even though I own Soothe, TEOTE, Gullfoss and Bloom, I still use it.

[@AnimusInvidious]

"Liquidizing" is my new favorite word.

[@K-M1]

Can this be used instead of an EQ with a high pass filter? I tend to scoop out all my low ends that aren't kicks or bass.

[@TheAudioCzar]

This will not remove low and high frequencies as a high pass filter would.

[@dopesnare]

Two years later... are you still using it?

[@ChristopherczarSmith]

Wow it's been two years! Yeh I still use it. Mostly on vocals where I need to remove harshness. Haven't used soothe 2 since getting this

[@dopesnare]

@@ChristopherczarSmith Shweet!

[@en3970]

Thanks for this demo. I prefer the F6 result in this shootout. The sound of the vocal stays better imo.

[@synth-studio]

Yeah, this was super helpful. Thank you!

[@Feraner]

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?

[@TheAudioCzar]

I never thought about it. But I just posted a video comparing this to soothe

[@xxllx86]

How is this thing dealing with muddy frequency’s?

[@TheAudioCzar]

handles them well, and its a killer De-esser, new video comparing it to soothe 2 coming in the AM

[@chrisw5742]

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.

[@Limbiclesion]

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

[@BelAnuRa]

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...

[@musicproductionvideos5019]

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

[@LennonStephens]

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

[@freesongsmusic]

Great video, what mic and preamp did you use for this vocal? Thanks

[@SBMech]

Well I'm grabbing this, great demo! I imagine it'll be great for getting shitty ringing frequencies out of overheads and guitars too

[@traezaX1]

THE SONG IS DOPE THOUGH

[@vewilli]

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?

[@TheAudioCzar]

I'll be doing a follow-up video comparing this to soothe

[@clarkflavor]

@@TheAudioCzar I'm excited about that, hoping that Smooth Operator does the job just as well or even better - Soothe is expensive!

[@BelAnuRa]

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 :-)

[@vewilli]

@@BelAnuRa thanx. Just wanted to know, because I‘ve got both of them! And today Baby Audio sent out an e-mail with access to a video tutorial!

[@roywennekes8548]

Whooow. Fuego.

[@commonsense5188]

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.

[@cryptout]

perfect explanation thanks 🙏

[@jamesmatusiak9231]

Very helpful

[@Allan-et5ig]

Czar - Fine video. Bottom line - will you be purchasing and using this in your own mixing?

[@TheAudioCzar]

Yep. Have it and have been using it

[@Allan-et5ig]

@@TheAudioCzar Thanks. Loving it?

[@TheAudioCzar]

@@Allan-et5ig yeh. Been using it on vocals

[@jenkyjenko8249]

I was just about to purchase Soothe 2, the price is a bit mad though! Would you recommend buying smooth operator instead?

[@TheAudioCzar]

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

[@akagerhard]

@@TheAudioCzar looking forward to that comparison

[@BelAnuRa]

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...

[@TheGrimy16th]

Your beats fire Bro

[@aviatedviewssound4798]

Thanks 🙏

[@mehlek23]

Where do you use it in your vocal chain?

[@TheAudioCzar]

I put it first or after a eq that I've used to high pass the source

[@MappingSubber]

It’s directly on the vocal or on your vocal buss?

[@mehlek23]

@@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

[@SiTheMon777]

Sounds really good. What's it like on the cpu? Ive got Gullfoss but that can suck the life out of your processor. Great vid

[@MrMissingReel]

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

[@SiTheMon777]

@@MrMissingReel thanks for the heads up. I missed that email

[@anarchy0208]

Is it like soothe 2 or gullfoss?

[@saintsofspeakeasy3915]

I was wondering the same thing. It looks a lot like Soothe 2.

[@rivella99]

Looks to me as a combination of both.

[@arthurcaplan9077]

At first glance they all seem the same tbh

[@rivella99]

@@BenDover84932 In my opinion soothe is more versatile, but that has its price.

[@88keyz]

👍🏾

[@ettiennelane9173]

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.

[@matrixate]

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.

[@DjGoBestMusicEver]

F6 Much better sound!

[@kiddzz8858]

No Go She Ate….. ????!!!!! 🙄

[@treys1695]

Good stuff brother