Baby Audio Smooth Operator Pro

The definitive clarity tool

Mix with clarity
Smooth Operator Pro is a state-of-the-art spectral balancing tool that helps you easily remove harshness, mud and masking from any track. Work surgically to fix small imperfections – or process the full frequency spectrum for fast corrections that sound like lifting a blanket from your speakers.

FEATURES

• Remove bloated frequency build-up automatically to achieve cleaner mixes

• Reduce mud, masking and harsh resonances in real-time

• Fix problem areas surgically or process the full spectrum for fast results

Instant track optimizer
We’ve engineered the new Pro version without compromising on the fast workflow that made Smooth Operator 1 so popular.

Set your desired target curve with the EQ nodes, then turn the big threshold knob until the plugin starts rebalancing your audio. Make surgical tweaks as needed for perfect results.

Smooth Operator Pro removes bloated frequency material only when and where it occurs to make your tracks feel lighter and cleaner.

Resonance suppression 2.0
Where other spectral balancers offer global settings to affect the signal, Smooth Operator Pro lets you set individual configurations for different frequencies. Click 'Override Global' on a node for fine-tuning.

Examples (all within one plugin instance):

• Target just the left side at 7500 hz to fix a harsh cymbal

• Address the sides at 150 hz to clean up the bass

• Tame a vocal at 2.5 kHz with a softer compression profile

Presets by the world’s top engineers
Smooth Operator Pro ships with 184 presets created by some of the world’s most renowned engineers for use in their own sessions.

Preset creators include:

• Craig Bauer (Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams, Wu-Tang Clan)

• Max Jaeger (Major Lazer, Big Sean, Ariana Grande)

• Preston Reid (Chief Keef, Alicia Keys, Lil Uzi Vert)

• + Many more

Track spacing on steroids
Enable Sidechain mode to rebalance your current track based on the frequency profile of another track in your mix.

Example: Load Smooth Operator Pro on a guitar track and use the vocal as your sidechain input to dynamically tame the guitar in the frequency areas where the vocal is most dominant. Or tame a bass when the kick hits but by attenuating only the most dominant frequencies in the kick drum to avoid low-end clashes.

If it feels like magic, that's because it is
Smooth Operator's spectral processing manipulates each of the tiny particles that make up a signal separately – instead of the whole signal at once. By splitting a sound into its "DNA components", the plugin can rebalance harmonic material much more effectively than traditional mixing tools.

Fixing problems is only the beginning: Use Smooth Operator Pro to dramatically reshape the tonal balance of your tracks without artifacts.

System Requirements

Mac OS X
Versions: Mac OS 10.11 and up
CPU: Native Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 Compatibility
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AU, AAX

Windows
Versions: Windows 10 and newer
Plugins: VST-2, VST-3, AAX

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