Just got this and used it in my mixbus with the first preset in the list for Mixbus, and again on the master session with the preset WARM MASTER, and without any tweaking of these two presets I was blown away.
For me this is a fast way of cleaning / taming unwanted frequncies as fast as possible without chaining bunch of diffrent plugins for a similar results. So for the price on sale its very good plugin and a great cheap alternative for the other options.
Love this Plugin since day one of its release. Sure, soothe is more versatile, but much more expensive and quite heavy on the cpu, this baby u can put on every track of a mix when needed. 🤘👍
this is dope, basically an Auto-multiband comp, Was only a matter of time until this was made. I suppose my concern is how the compression sounds... Perhaps it's not as typical for MB comps to imitate classic compressors, but it would be nice for them to have at least offered various distortion models or harmonic profiles modelled after hardware. This is my concern with Denise Audio's Dragon fire, which is a super user friendly MB comp, that while it has an included drive knob (which I suspect is contingent upon how much it is compressing, though I can't be sure) it has only one colour or sonic imprint, which means it's not as applicable then if it had a few.
@@discomyass Yeah that one... I managed to catch it 50% on a sale... It's just a matter of time when it's gonna show up again on their weekly sale site.
@@DaveChips I have it and really struggling to get a desired effect! Haven't spend the time learning it! I was planning to buy soothe on next black Friday.. Maybe
@@discomyass Meldas are a bit mad scientist plugins, sometimes a bit overwhelming.My go to is Soothe... But for Sidechaining and some super specific stuff I use SpectralDyn... I still sincerely believe its one of the most powerful dynamic plugins up to this date.
Hi from Berlin and Thank you for sharing ! would you advice using it AFTER Reverb ? I use a softube plate reverb that I love but it kinda makes my vocals sound a bit metallic, wonder of this plugin would help with that . thank you and keep up the good work
Nice one Streaky Dude :) like your fucky lights , do you make then flash when you have done a great mix and having a beer :) and start throwing some shapes , bet you do ! thanks for the vid bro.
Cheap alternative to Soothe and I really mean CHEAP. Doesn’t come close to neither quality or workflow. Also adds distortion to the sound even by adding just a plain sine wave to it.
Hey Damien, we're working on a v1.0.1 right now to fix the "sine wave issue". What happens is not actually distortion but "spectral leakage" caused by the crossfades in the summing algorithm. (I've given a longer explanation of what this is further down in the comments but wanted to tag you to make sure you'd see it). The update will be out very shortly -- please email us if you have any questions at all. We're always happy to answer them :)
@@BABYAudio-official Great for you to reply explaining this to the gentleman... Ive seen a few demos where this plugin came out on top transparently - which is what most of us want :) Thanks for your continuing hard work!
I didn't like it much, it makes things sound not so smooth in a bad way lol (no pun intended) the only plugin I love from baby audio that I use A LOT is Spaced Out but other stuff isn't that great in my opinion.
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.
This. ☝I suppose you could just drag up the dot on the far left and drag down the dot on the far right to compensate for this, but it would be quicker and more intuitive if it was a built in feature. Maybe even let the user decide the slope.
@@nikkomakinen6582 I agree. Thing is that all the other similar plugins like Gullfoss and Soothe compensates for the slope out of the box - why Baby Audio overlooked this is really odd.
A lot. Bob Katz did an experiment where he put a microphone on either side of a dummy head for ears and put a variety of hats on it. Even a backwards baseball cap created comb filtering, you can imagine what a full brined hat did. Conclusion don't wear a hat when mixing or mastering.
Wytse doesn't learn how a plugin works before he demos them tho, so he purposely misuses them in a way where they will sound bad, and then claims they sound bad lol.Wytse is human snake oil
@@UncleBenjs Ouch, shots fired! I think he felt it colours the audio more than it should but yeah he does go in dry on his reviews which is bound to have issues
you have fingers, and paper? if the paper is moving, there is enough bass, if it rumbles enough on your finger, there is enough bass. That's how you mix bass on ns10s lol
I really like a most of JD's plug-ins but this one is not really on-par with it's competition, especially in terms of resonance suppresssion. TDR Nova is still No.1 in that regard (yes, even compared to soothe 2 and DSEQ IMHO). Smooth Operator sounds too phasey and dull.
@@inlovingmemoryofdouglasmul5216 Nah, if you run a plain sine wave through it with no other processing it adds unwanted harmonic distortion; which is a bummer because I really like Baby Audio, but them not advertising the distortion anywhere is pretty suspect and not cool.
@@aarons6617 Yes, you are right and it’s really obvious as well. Being a fan of the other Babyaudio plugins, I can’t wrap my head around what they have done to make this one as useless as it is. Hopefully they will update it, but for now it can’t be compared with the likes of Soothe2. Which is superior.
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Just got this and used it in my mixbus with the first preset in the list for Mixbus, and again on the master session with the preset WARM MASTER, and without any tweaking of these two presets I was blown away.
For me this is a fast way of cleaning / taming unwanted frequncies as fast as possible without chaining bunch of diffrent plugins for a similar results. So for the price on sale its very good plugin and a great cheap alternative for the other options.
Exactly this. Was looking for a space/ Cpu saver to cut some plugins, etc. and this worked just fine.
Love this Plugin since day one of its release. Sure, soothe is more versatile, but much more expensive and quite heavy on the cpu, this baby u can put on every track of a mix when needed. 🤘👍
Streaky! Love this plugin, had it since the day it came out and I LOVE this style of video from you dude! Do more plugin reviews!
This Plugin is no joke,I use it on my Instrument busses alot and is such a joy on send fx busses.
Thanks Streaky
Great intro to the plugin, Streaky. I will definitely check it out soon! Thank you
this is dope, basically an Auto-multiband comp, Was only a matter of time until this was made. I suppose my concern is how the compression sounds... Perhaps it's not as typical for MB comps to imitate classic compressors, but it would be nice for them to have at least offered various distortion models or harmonic profiles modelled after hardware. This is my concern with Denise Audio's Dragon fire, which is a super user friendly MB comp, that while it has an included drive knob (which I suspect is contingent upon how much it is compressing, though I can't be sure) it has only one colour or sonic imprint, which means it's not as applicable then if it had a few.
As always, incredible info! I'll try it out. 😄 Any chance you could give us a video about your workflow in RX?
yea! show us some RX Streaky !
:D
✅✅
Looks good thanks for the heads up
Streaky thank you so much for your help and your mastering lessons
If you would mix soothe, gullfoss, smart eq3 and smooth operator...well, you would have a wonderful tool. At the moment each one has pros and cons
Spectral Dynamics maybe?
For me preety much replaces soothe, Gulfoss, teote and smart comp.
@@DaveChips Spectral Dynamics from melda????
@@discomyass Yeah that one... I managed to catch it 50% on a sale... It's just a matter of time when it's gonna show up again on their weekly sale site.
@@DaveChips I have it and really struggling to get a desired effect! Haven't spend the time learning it! I was planning to buy soothe on next black Friday.. Maybe
@@discomyass Meldas are a bit mad scientist plugins, sometimes a bit overwhelming.My go to is Soothe... But for Sidechaining and some super specific stuff I use SpectralDyn... I still sincerely believe its one of the most powerful dynamic plugins up to this date.
yeah, then try (version 3.0 relaeased October 4th 2010) Voxengo Soniformer...
Awesome plugin! Love it a lot
I can totally see this one on every mix, thanks...
Hi from Berlin and Thank you for sharing ! would you advice using it AFTER Reverb ? I use a softube plate reverb that I love but it kinda makes my vocals sound a bit metallic, wonder of this plugin would help with that . thank you and keep up the good work
The blue color looks like that of Soothe's though
Dynamic EQs existed since ages. Smooth operator works exactly as any dynamic EQ. Nice marketing though.
Nice one Streaky Dude :) like your fucky lights , do you make then flash when you have done a great mix and having a beer :) and start throwing some shapes , bet you do ! thanks for the vid bro.
😂
Errr….funky lights? Or did you actually mean fucky lights?
4:21 "I'm gonna stop talking..."
**literally talks for another 25 seconds**
I know I am kind of off topic but do anyone know a good website to watch new movies online?
@Hassan Ruben I use FlixZone. You can find it by googling =)
@Hassan Ruben I watch on Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)
@Hassan Ruben I use Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
@Hassan Ruben I would suggest flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
Any thoughts on the new Vertigo Sound saturation plugin? I would love to see you review it.
How does this compare to Soothe?
Thx for the video. Please make a comparison to Soothe.
Hey man love your content! This plugin is awesome. Was wondering what microphone are you using to record the audio for your videos?
Cheap alternative to Soothe and I really mean CHEAP. Doesn’t come close to neither quality or workflow. Also adds distortion to the sound even by adding just a plain sine wave to it.
Hey Damien, we're working on a v1.0.1 right now to fix the "sine wave issue". What happens is not actually distortion but "spectral leakage" caused by the crossfades in the summing algorithm. (I've given a longer explanation of what this is further down in the comments but wanted to tag you to make sure you'd see it). The update will be out very shortly -- please email us if you have any questions at all. We're always happy to answer them :)
@@BABYAudio-official Great for you to reply explaining this to the gentleman... Ive seen a few demos where this plugin came out on top transparently - which is what most of us want :) Thanks for your continuing hard work!
great tips !!!
Great video!
Keep up the good work!
Better than gulfoss?
The best part of the video was when you said, I am going to stop talking, for me, it was already too late, oh my ears!
It seems to me the baby brother of Denise Dragon Fire plugin
I didn't like it much, it makes things sound not so smooth in a bad way lol (no pun intended) the only plugin I love from baby audio that I use A LOT is Spaced Out but other stuff isn't that great in my opinion.
Super VHS is killer!
Can't a regular equalizer do the same thing?
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.
This. ☝I suppose you could just drag up the dot on the far left and drag down the dot on the far right to compensate for this, but it would be quicker and more intuitive if it was a built in feature. Maybe even let the user decide the slope.
@@nikkomakinen6582 I agree. Thing is that all the other similar plugins like Gullfoss and Soothe compensates for the slope out of the box - why Baby Audio overlooked this is really odd.
Sooth, Smooth...... 😏
Nobody gives a damd eny more 🙈🙉🙊
I think I'll design a new pair of running shoes and call them Ididas with an "I" yeah. 🙄
Is there a plugin comparison module in Izotope RX ? Or what's that kind of window Smooth Operator is loaded in ? Cheerz
It’s just the section to load in a plug-in...nice and quick for this stuff
@@Streaky_com gotcha, thanx mate !
Soundbrigade by sknote is what soothe, this, dseq is but better and more transparent
Ooo interesting, SKnote makes good stuff, will have to check it out
Soundbrigade sounds really interesting, can't find a trial version anywhere though.
@@azomyte no trial just have to pay the $30. Beyond worth it
@@aspillane123 Bought it, you're right, incredibly useful
What kind of mic are you using? Your voice sounds really nice
Rode
Thé soothe was quite good but pricey!
Yay
are u guys using this plugin straight to master bus? Or maybe the vocal bus also?
The song playing is Dj MaysoN
Up And Try
This or Soothe or Gulfoss?
you didn't seem very shocked
Hahaha
Looks like Trackspacer?
what song is that ??
What song is this??
Now do Nani plugin 🙄😢
Is the song available for listening?
Yeah
@@Streaky_com Name pls lol good tune
Streaky, why are you bypassing RX?
So you can hear the plug-in working
@@Streaky_com Oh, okay. I thought you were hitting bypass on the wrong app or something
How much does wearing a cap affect what you’re hearing?
A lot. Bob Katz did an experiment where he put a microphone on either side of a dummy head for ears and put a variety of hats on it. Even a backwards baseball cap created comb filtering, you can imagine what a full brined hat did. Conclusion don't wear a hat when mixing or mastering.
Great Insight !!!
What this song name? :)
Airness Billy.
Not enough control. Needs more points to play with..
RIP Soothe
ha ha ha
Wytse Gerichhausen does not concur. 👀👀
Wytse doesn't learn how a plugin works before he demos them tho, so he purposely misuses them in a way where they will sound bad, and then claims they sound bad lol.Wytse is human snake oil
@@UncleBenjs Ouch, shots fired! I think he felt it colours the audio more than it should but yeah he does go in dry on his reviews which is bound to have issues
I downloaded a cracked version of this, just to try it out for a few months... it didn't last 5 minutes on my computer
Lil q regarding ns10 man. Does it have enough bass when 808s hit i mean people say they are bassless so i was worried .
you have fingers, and paper? if the paper is moving, there is enough bass, if it rumbles enough on your finger, there is enough bass. That's how you mix bass on ns10s lol
Exactly
Literally only the best know this
That's rather cheap for what it is and no dongle and i'm a big fan of spectral processing! Might have to crack 😀 my wallet open. Pun intended! 👍
I really like a most of JD's plug-ins but this one is not really on-par with it's competition, especially in terms of resonance suppresssion. TDR Nova is still No.1 in that regard (yes, even compared to soothe 2 and DSEQ IMHO). Smooth Operator sounds too phasey and dull.
Got paid a nice few pound for this review/plug ....how many mixes ya used it Stinky?
Unfortunately not I don’t get paid for review...not my style...sorry
@@Streaky_com Thanks for the reply ...much love brother x
spat my coffee over this LMAO
And now it’s all love smh 🤦🏻♂️
Thanks for the review! Can you stop making your videos with background music? Cool for the beginning but more annoying for the informative video :(
Yeah, but what's the 🏠 banger that's playing? 🥹
Video starts at 4:44
If you talk so much at least put your voice thru this plugin
Well, this plugin adds unwanted harmonic distortion. So you recommending this plugin just proves to me that I can’t trust your ears.
Might depend what u already have processed on the track. If u have a bunch of plugins on there already, that can happen.
@@inlovingmemoryofdouglasmul5216 Nah, if you run a plain sine wave through it with no other processing it adds unwanted harmonic distortion; which is a bummer because I really like Baby Audio, but them not advertising the distortion anywhere is pretty suspect and not cool.
@@aarons6617 Yes, you are right and it’s really obvious as well. Being a fan of the other Babyaudio plugins, I can’t wrap my head around what they have done to make this one as useless as it is. Hopefully they will update it, but for now it can’t be compared with the likes of Soothe2. Which is superior.
@@aarons6617 gotcha
@Tom Man Just by reading your public statement, I can see you lack grammar, audio education, & like to troll. 😂🤘