Baby Audio announce Smooth Operator Pro plugin
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09.04.2025

Baby Audio announce Smooth Operator Pro plugin

Baby Audio
Words by Mixdown staff

Fixing problems is only the beginning: Use Smooth Operator Pro to dramatically re-shape the tonal balance with fewer side-effects and smoother results.

Smooth Operator’s spectral processing manipulates each of the tiny particles that make up a signal individually – instead of the whole signal at once. By splitting a sound into individual components, you can rebalance harmonic material more effectively than traditional EQ and compression tools. The plugin brings surgical control over your sound at the ‘DNA level’.

Baby Audio have engineered the new Pro version without compromising on the fast workflow that made Smooth Operator 1 so popular. Set the desired target curve, then turn the global threshold knob until the plugin starts rebalancing your audio. Dive into deep settings optionally for total control. Smooth Operator Pro removes fatiguing frequency energy as and where it occurs, improving your audio’s clarity. Dial it in gently and it will feel like lifting a blanket from your speakers.

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Where other spectral balancers offer global settings to affect the signal, Smooth Operator Pro brings unprecedented depth: Overwrite the global settings for any frequency node to set individual dynamic profiles across the spectrum.

Examples (within the same plugin instance):

  • Target the left side at 7500 Hz to fix a harsh cymbal.
  • Address only the sides at 150 Hz to clean up the bass.
  • Tame a vocal at 2.5 kHz with a softer compression profile.

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