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If you decide you don't want your order, you can return it within 14 days of receiving it. Provided your product hasn't been activated in that time, you can exchange it for a different product, or get a refund.
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This does not affect your statutory rights.
For more information, please refer to our Returns and Refunds Information.
If you decide your order isn't suitable for any reason you can return it - just let us know within 30 days of receiving it. Please keep hold of all the original packaging until you're sure you want to keep the order.
Eligibility for Money Back Guarantee
For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered."
Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions.
Products include:
- Monitors and Headphones
- Earplugs and Ear Protection
- Reeds and mouthpieces for woodwind and brass instruments
- Mouth and Lip-Care Products
- CDs, DVDs and Software
We can collect your return for a small fee, or you can send it back to us yourself. The collection fee can be found in the returns information on each product's page on Gear4music.
In the unlikely event that any item in this order is faulty, damaged or incorrect on receipt, notify us within 14 days and we'll arrange a free collection.
When returning an order please ensure products are appropriately packaged and protected, to prevent them from getting damaged.
This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
We are unable to accept returns of any custom made items designed to work together as a unique package and some items are only eligible for money back guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging. For full information on our returns policy, please refer to our returns and refunds information guide.
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Key Features
Sonible smart:chain is an intelligent channel strip which combines EQ, compression, gating, de-harshing, input riding, saturation, and levelling within one connected plug-in, reducing the setup required when building a processing chain. Rather than treating each processor separately, smart:chain analyses your audio once and uses that shared understanding to provide optimised starting points across its modules.
Multiple instances communicate throughout your session, so tracks can be shaped while considering the wider mix. Intelligent depth staging lets you assign elements to Front, Middle, and Back Layers, with processing adapting to improve separation, clarity, and perceived depth. And while intelligent processing handles repetitive groundwork, every processing stage remains accessible for manual adjustment, giving you control when you want to fine-tune the results.
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smart:chain brings the core stages of channel processing into a unified workflow, including EQ, compression, gating, de-harshing, input riding, saturation, and levelling. Crucially, these modules don't work in isolation. They share an understanding of the incoming signal, allowing one analysis to establish optimised starting points throughout the processing chain. This cuts down repetitive setup while keeping related processing decisions coherent. Once the initial analysis is complete, intuitive sound-shaping controls let you explore different processing directions, with full manual control available throughout. The result is an efficient starting point without locking you into automatic decisions.
The compression section draws on Sonible's intelligent smart:comp processing, using content-aware analysis to set parameters according to your source. Its underlying smart:engine combines deep-learning technology, psychoacoustic principles, mixing experience, and source profiles to analyse material and establish suitable settings. Spectral compression assesses more than 2,000 bands, helping control dynamics while retaining important detail within the signal. Automated parametrisation can speed up compression on individual instruments or complete mixes, while spectral processing and sidechain ducking provide further control. You can then manually adjust the processing to dial in the dynamics, punch, and consistency required for each track.
The EQ module uses smart:EQ functionality to shape individual sources while accounting for their relationship with other tracks. Multi-track unmasking lets you prioritise up to 10 tracks, helping bring selected elements forward while positioning others further back spectrally. Instances within the same group can also be remotely controlled, reducing the need to repeatedly move between plug-in windows. Instrument, vocal, and genre-based profiles provide starting points for intelligent processing, while reference material can be used to create a custom profile that targets its spectral character and balance. You can also define the maximum learning time used to analyse the incoming signal.
smart:chain extends intelligent processing across multiple plug-in instances rather than limiting decisions to one channel at a time. Instances communicate throughout the session, providing centralised control and letting tracks be managed in the context of the complete mix. Intelligent depth staging adds another layer of control: assign elements to Front, Middle, or Back Layers, and processing adapts to support separation, clarity, and depth. The content-aware gate complements this approach by detecting a selected target source, such as vocals, keys, or kick, and responding specifically to its signal components rather than relying solely on the overall input level. This helps maintain more stable gating when competing background signals become louder.
