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Post by donr on May 10, 2021 22:01:06 GMT -6
babyaud.io/smooth-operator-pluginIntro price $39. I've had it a couple days. If you can't find a use for it, what's wrong with you? It does things similar to Soothe2, but it's different and works different. I've watched several YouTube 'reviews' of it, and nobody seems to understand completely how it works. But it works. Quickly. Bargain at the price.
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Post by nick8801 on May 11, 2021 6:52:13 GMT -6
I just got it too. For the price, I figure I will find some use for it. I do have izotope spectral processor too. Interested to see how this works on harsh cymbals or vox.
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Post by svart on May 11, 2021 7:27:12 GMT -6
babyaud.io/smooth-operator-pluginIntro price $39. I've had it a couple days. If you can't find a use for it, what's wrong with you? It does things similar to Soothe2, but it's different and works different. I've watched several YouTube 'reviews' of it, and nobody seems to understand completely how it works. But it works. Quickly. Bargain at the price. Reading the description it does exactly what soothe does, but it does so a little more automatically. Both use frequency bands and you can adjust how much or how little is processed by moving the bands up or down. Seems this one is backwards from Soothe in that you need to pull the bands down to get more effect where Soothe you pull them up. Although I have Soothe and upgraded to Soothe 2, I might get this one as well and see how it does at extreme work. Soothe had an issue where it got really grainy sounding during heavy work and Soothe 2 is improved but still gets strange when pushed, which is my only gripe. If this one has figured out how to make it sound more natural during heavy use, it would be a winner in my book. |
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Post by svart on May 11, 2021 18:26:45 GMT -6
Ok, so first impressions are good. It doesn't seem to get as grainy sounding as soothe, but it also doesn't get as selective. At it's most "focused" it seems to be on par with soothe's sharpness at about 1/3rd.
However, I found it to be very good at smoothing raspy guitars where soothe would make them sound a bit digital.
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Post by donr on May 11, 2021 20:44:07 GMT -6
I put it into a mix I'm working on now, in several places, it's an EQ, it's a compressor, it's both. If you just touch the threshold (the middle node) it'll teach any track manners, and make it fit a mix better. As far as the "soothe" aspect, so far that's just a bonus, unless you need that for a specific purpose, when it will do the job.
I think this is one of the "new digital" ways of getting somewhere, as opposed to making the best emulation of legacy analog gear. At $39 intro, this is a cheap useful tool.
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Post by mrholmes on May 12, 2021 4:42:56 GMT -6
I put it into a mix I'm working on now, in several places, it's an EQ, it's a compressor, it's both. If you just touch the threshold (the middle node) it'll teach any track manners, and make it fit a mix better. As far as the "soothe" aspect, so far that's just a bonus, unless you need that for a specific purpose, when it will do the job. I think this is one of the "new digital" ways of getting somewhere, as opposed to making the best emulation of legacy analog gear. At $39 intro, this is a cheap useful tool.
Used it on one of my not so great home recorded acoustic guitars and to me, it sounds like someone ads EQ compression and phase stuff at the same time. Is it better? IMO its different but always sounds like someone cranked 3-4 khz even if I go just with touch of it.
Resonance suppressing some are suppressed others are totally ignored by the plug in.
Game changer?
I am not sure.....
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