Boc Maxima cassette origin

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 6:20 am

Thank you very much for this!

I've always had fond memories associated with BOC Maxima. I almost prefer the gritty distorted version of Everything You Do Is A Balloon compared to the one found on Hi Scores. Same goes for the record rip of Twoism that was floating around. The CD version is too clean.

Thanks again!

bdzz · Post by **bdzz** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:20 am

Well. Downloaded the rar from the russian site (thanks for the link!!)

It looks real, I think it's real. But I guess the original tape was such a low quality.

9.flac (M9)

11.flac (Whitewater / One Very Important Thought)

In short:
Lossless files have frequencies that extend all the way up to 22 kHz.
But it depends on the genre and on the source too.
(Good comparison here about a pop and a piano song)

So, even though the audible data is way below 22khz on both files, you can see the white noise extends up to 22khz.
No cut off.

Which means all the data has been recorded (= lossless).
But the source was not a good quality (= cassette tape).

bdzz · Post by **bdzz** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:05 pm

fyi: just uploaded the rar to Dropbox

northernlite · Post by **northernlite** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 2:06 pm

bdzz wrote:fyi: just uploaded the rar to Dropbox

pm me the link please?

jlgui · Post by **jlgui** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:05 am

The 20 tracks FLAC version with correct tags.

Side A :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/heuo9ypnsr859ry/side%20a.zip

Side B :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ayd2o6r8rrurpao/side%20b.zip

bdzz · Post by **bdzz** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:55 am

Maybe I'm wrong... but I thought that this thread will be more popular.
Lossless version of the Boc Maxima tapes! Wake up people! (:

Basefree · Post by **Basefree** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:29 pm

bdzz wrote:Maybe I'm wrong... but I thought that this thread will be more popular.
Lossless version of the Boc Maxima tapes! Wake up people! (:

A perfect CD copy would spark interest I'm sure, but this rip is, in the end, nothing new for the ears.

Basefree · Post by **Basefree** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 12:32 pm

jlgui wrote:The 20 tracks FLAC version with correct tags.

Side A :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/heuo9ypnsr859ry/side%20a.zip

Side B :
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ayd2o6r8rrurpao/side%20b.zip

Thanks a lot, how did you split these?

jlgui · Post by **jlgui** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:52 pm

I think the bass is deeper and the treble clearer. I can hear the difference between the FLAC and the old mp3 version with my headphones. And i m just happy to know i have listened the first gen copy and not a mp3 version of which i did not know the origin.

I split the track with XLD on Mac. First i join all the 11 tracks in one FLAC file. And with a .cue sheet ( metadata file which describes how the tracks of a CD are laid out) and a lot of patience i split, with my headphone on the ears, all the tracks, one by one.

NEUROMUTE · Post by **NEUROMUTE** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:05 pm

This is great, thank you! I was planning on ripping my cassette copy for ages, and since I'm not known for being able to rip cassettes particularly well, I thank you for this! Ha!
I'm surprised people aren't jumping all over for these wonderful rips!

everythingyoudoisorange · Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:09 pm

I believe I can hear a difference too, thanks a lot!

NEUROMUTE · Post by **NEUROMUTE** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:12 pm

everythingyoudoisorange wrote:I believe I can hear a difference too, thanks a lot!

Off topic:
Your username and profile photograph are hilarious.

(In a good way.)

everythingyoudoisorange · Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:21 pm

thanks.

I wonder if we'll see AFOTv2 in FLAC pop up eventually.

bdzz · Post by **bdzz** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:47 pm

Here is the original rar from the russian site
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v329xclwefs3s ... tte%29.rar

But big up to jlgui for the original link + the edit!

bdzz · Post by **bdzz** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 4:51 pm

NEUROMUTE wrote: I'm surprised people aren't jumping all over for these wonderful rips!

+1
Maybe the topic title is not clear enough? (:

everythingyoudoisorange · Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:41 pm

Let them slowly discover it like all other BoC gems

deadfly · Post by **deadfly** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 6:49 pm

NEUROMUTE wrote:This is great, thank you! I was planning on ripping my cassette copy for ages, and since I'm not known for being able to rip cassettes particularly well, I thank you for this! Ha!
I'm surprised people aren't jumping all over for these wonderful rips!

Wait - is this a joke or do you actually have a cassette copy of Maxima?

The problem with those flac files is that they contain distortion that seems to have been caused by ripping the cassette too loud, so a new rip from cassette would be a vast improvement....

Opothecary · Post by **Opothecary** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 7:20 pm

deadfly wrote:
NEUROMUTE wrote:This is great, thank you! I was planning on ripping my cassette copy for ages, and since I'm not known for being able to rip cassettes particularly well, I thank you for this! Ha!
I'm surprised people aren't jumping all over for these wonderful rips!

Wait - is this a joke or do you actually have a cassette copy of Maxima?

The problem with those flac files is that they contain distortion that seems to have been caused by ripping the cassette too loud, so a new rip from cassette would be a vast improvement....

don't feed a troll that doesn't even have the proper technical detail to use the correct picture on the cover of his Maxima fake.

jlgui · Post by **jlgui** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:21 pm

bdzz wrote :

Maybe the topic title is not clear enough? (:

Yes certainly... Sorry for my bad english...

everythingyoudoisorange wrote :

I wonder if we'll see AFOTv2 in FLAC pop up eventually.

Do you have AFOTv1 in FLAC?
I found on Soulseek Random 35 Tracks tape in FLAC. I don t know if it s real FLAC but the sound is good! i could send a dropbox link...

deadfly wrote :

The problem with those flac files is that they contain distortion that seems to have been caused by ripping the cassette too loud, so a new rip from cassette would be a vast improvement....

Yes, but like Joyrex said on WATMM forum :
That distortion might be intentional - after all, this is BoC we're talking about

everythingyoudoisorange · Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:19 am

i don't have a few old tunes or any unreleased on flac, I'm a rarities noob