That’s interesting! I haven’t tested Smooth Operator in-depth yet, but first impressions were quite positive.

I totally see your point and I agree that comparing Soothe2 and Smooth Operator would be interesting, so that’s coming soon on BPB. Your first comment suggested that our article is sponsored and biased which isn’t true, so I hope that’s clear, too. Cheers and thanks for the suggestions!

@Tomislav Zlatic
There are various video on youtube now about Sooth 2 VS Smooth Operator now (I guess this highlight the fact that the analogy between the two wasn’t just obvious to me ^^).
The plugin is also often compared to Gulfoss and Teote which also targets resonance but these ones doesn’t have the parametric approach we have in Sooth and DSEQ (and they have different approach internally too).

The answer to your question is exposed right in my first post:
Because Smooth Operator does looks like a Sooth clone, by its Name and it’s GUI color scheme.
Also, the review seems to implies that Smooth Operator approach is new (it is only compared to an EQ in introduction): it isn’t, and so could have been compared to other Dynamic Resonant suppressor.
Having more contextual infos in a review is IMHO something expected, to give the full picture. Plugins don’t come in vacuum, they come in a rich and diverse ecosystem (in which BPB help us a lot). The most interesting thing in Smooth Operator isn’t that it is a new kind of treatment – cause it is not – but precisely because the main popular, alternative is 200$.
But it worth noticing that at the same regular price, DSEQ will offer more features and controls, and would have also definitely deserve its review here.

That’s a valid point. However, I do think that a Soothe vs Smooth Operator article would be an interesting read. Working on making it happen.

Completely agree with you!

* earlier

Why would they mention Soothe when the review is about Smooth Op? It’s obvious that there are various similar eatlier products out there (not only Soothe). Do you expect reviewers to mention Fabfilter Pro-Q everytime they review any other newly released EQ plugin?

How is this effected if my project is ay 96kHz (or even higher)?

It would actually be pretty cool to have a comparison article between Soothe and Smooth Operator, similar to what Petter did in the excellent Reverb Wars article. https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2021/03/09/reverb-wars/

I’ll check if one of our writers is available and hopefully we’ll make this happen.

Hi Tom, as I already mentioned, our reviews are not sponsored and the author (Sam in this case) is completely free to share their opinion about the reviewed product.

If you’re interested in submitting a comparison between Soothe and Smooth Operator, I’d be more than happy to publish it on BPB, whether here in the comments section or even as a separate article (if it’s long enough).