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Hot Buttered Soul quick review. Side A is excellent. Side B has some of the notorious tape issues on it which are kinda only distracting if you know where they are. but a little curious why they used backup tape for One Woman but not By The Time...which is where the issues lie. Still very good and I hope they do more soul titles and non-jazz titles moving forward.

I'd say this one is neck and neck with the MoFi SACD I have. I don't have the MoFi vinyl. This easily beats the OGs I have heard.
 
That Hot Buttered Soul one-step is really nice. I still think this one sounds best though: https://www.discogs.com/release/14080549-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul

Tighter punchier bass guitar, drums are punchy af and the snare really snaps. The high end is more lively. I got it for like $10 a couple years ago too, still is pretty cheap. The Bernie Grundman does some really great stuff with the bass guitar, makes it velvety and robust but still punchy. Incredibly quiet pressing too which is paramount for this album which you really have to crank way up to make it sing. I'm glad I own it despite its hefty price tag as I like having two quite different sounding pressings of great albums.

This pressing is pretty fuckin great too: https://www.discogs.com/release/14784978-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul
 
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keylime_5 said:
That Hot Buttered Soul one-step is really nice. I still think this one sounds best though: https://www.discogs.com/release/14080549-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul

Tighter punchier bass guitar, drums are punchy af and the snare really snaps. The high end is more lively. I got it for like $10 a couple years ago too, still is pretty cheap. The Bernie Grundman does some really great stuff with the bass guitar, makes it velvety and robust but still punchy. Incredibly quiet pressing too which is paramount for this album which you really have to crank way up to make it sing. I'm glad I own it despite its hefty price tag as I like having two quite different sounding pressings of great albums.

This pressing is pretty fuckin great too: https://www.discogs.com/release/14784978-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul
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Might have to find that GC/SS cut in the wild. No clean copies on discogs from what I’ve seen.
 
keylime_5 said:
That Hot Buttered Soul one-step is really nice. I still think this one sounds best though: https://www.discogs.com/release/14080549-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul

Tighter punchier bass guitar, drums are punchy af and the snare really snaps. The high end is more lively. I got it for like $10 a couple years ago too, still is pretty cheap. The Bernie Grundman does some really great stuff with the bass guitar, makes it velvety and robust but still punchy. Incredibly quiet pressing too which is paramount for this album which you really have to crank way up to make it sing. I'm glad I own it despite its hefty price tag as I like having two quite different sounding pressings of great albums.

This pressing is pretty fuckin great too: https://www.discogs.com/release/14784978-Isaac-Hayes-Hot-Buttered-Soul
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It's always perplexing why they use two different mastering engineers on each side of a cut.
I have a LZ1 with this scenario and it kind of drives you nuts because one side is way better than the other.

How does the OG side B sound in comparison to the tape fix?
 
Jbraswell said:
It's always perplexing why they use two different mastering engineers on each side of a cut.
I have a LZ1 with this scenario and it kind of drives you nuts because one side is way better than the other.

How does the OG side B sound in comparison to the tape fix?
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Lots of reasons why they used different engineers on different sides, especially back then. I agree it’s weird though when one side is better sounding than another. There are plenty of records that had no engineer signatures that I’m sure were cut by different engineers on each side back then especially at places like Artisan or other studios that had multiple engineers.
 
MikeH said:
Lots of reasons why they used different engineers on different sides, especially back then. I agree it’s weird though when one side is better sounding than another. There are plenty of records that had no engineer signatures that I’m sure were cut by different engineers on each side back then especially at places like Artisan or other studios that had multiple engineers.
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In this case, they used two different mastering houses...

I took a shot at the Mastercraft Terre Haute on both sides.
Figure my odds are 50% of getting the better mastering but I probably won't know the difference anyway.
 
Any Canadians order the Hayes Craft One Step direct from Craft? They still don't list what the shipping options actually are, wondering if these got through without duty?
 
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