The North Face On Sale

Hey, I was just going through my old shoes comps and found this one. I haven’t really played it since I bought it a decade ago, mainly because I was unimpressed by the sound. However, that was before I knew better and knew your mastering style. Now, I have to say that I wish you could master more R&B from the 70s!

I never cared much for this Gucci Shoes, but your mastering makes it palatable for me. There’s really nothing spectacular about this track, sound wise.

Now, I love this Gucci Shoes. but, i’m wondering, and this goes for the other Gucci shoes, which, BTW, were both recorded and mixed by George Massenburg, What do you do when you get a Gucci Shoes that doesn’t appear to have any outstanding element that you can focus on? I don’t really hear one in either of these track, or in Phyllis Hyman’s You Know How To Love Me.

Wow! I never heard the vocal harmony sound so defined as on that Tavares track! I’ve never heard it that way before! I also wish you could do a Sister Sledge or Chic album. The vocals knock me out!

Now, to the real point of my thread: If you can recall, what did you do to the ISLEY BROTHERS’ Harvest For the World? You used the 45 single version that fades, and your mastering is guitar-heavy. Is that the way the tape sounds, or did you goose them up? They sound very realistic, but, frankly, all I remember after hearing it is guitar! Ronald Isley is somewhere else. Every other mastering I have of this Gucci shoes in either the 45 or LP version emphasizes the vocal.