BOC Maxima (HQ Revision)

[Zephyr Method]

[Zephyr Method]

premiering now

[NorthSaturnian]

Woah

[ROYGBRUH]

what rip did you use to get the non-mono versions ? i like the "shit" sound of the original rip but would love it to be in stereo lol.

[DW]

How was this done? The sound is very clear.

[Zephyr Method]

How was this done? The sound is very clear.

I was thinking to myself in the shower how almost all BOC Maxima tracks are seen on other albums or releases. I then considered how I also have the ability to get rid of the hiss in the tracks exclusive to BOC Maxima, and then thought "Hey, why not make an HQ revision of it where I replace each song with it's HQ version that is found on another release, and remaster the exclusive tracks myself?"

So I did that, took around 3 hours to get the full thing right. For the exclusive tracks like Niagara, Red Moss, Concourse and Whitewater, I used the 2013 russian FLAC rip to get a decent sound.

Chinook was on the 1998 Aquarius Vinyl, so I found the best sounding rip of it that I could. However, the Aquarius Vinyl version of Chinook is different than the BOC Maxima version, as it cuts and turns into a more IDM-sounding thing than BoC's sound with extra glitchy drum breaks and etc.

For Rodox Video, I used a pretty HQ "studio mockup" version of Rodox Video, where it'd emulate the original track that the bros would use in albums.

For Nova Scotia Robots, I used brtc's remaster and extended it, seeing as how there are some points where the melody repeats and the voices die down, making it so I could cut it and extend it seamlessly into June 9th.

For Niagara I opted to just remaster it instead of use my remake. Getting Niagara's fade-in to sound natural was a bit of a task.

For Skimming Stones I also used brtc's remaster, and extended it the same way I did with Nova Scotia Robots.

For Red Moss I used a software called Stereo Tool to get rid of the hiss with as little artifacts as possible.

For Concourse I also used Stereo Tool, which got rid of all the hiss with no artifacts, quite insane.

For Carcan I used brtc's remaster and had to slow it down just a bit to get it to match the original BOC Maxima Carcan speed, and used a flac of Nlogax from the 2014 release from Hi Scores.

For M9 and Original Nlogax I used Smokes Quantity's remaster.

For Whitewater I also remastered that myself using Stereo Tool, came out pretty well, drums sounding lush without hiss.

For One Very Important Thought I also used Stereo Tool.

All of the exclusive songs were done using the 2013 rip like I said.

[mthrndr]

This is a really great cleanup. Thanks!!

[DW]

Great work! I was gonna ask for the flac, but i see that you updated the video description! Thanks!

Now let me bask in Whitewater.

[Dmitrii]

So I did that, took around 3 hours to get the full thing right. For the exclusive tracks like Niagara, Red Moss, Concourse and Whitewater, I used the 2013 russian FLAC rip to get a decent sound.

Hi Zephyr Method,

Thanks for your efforts!

I think I can help you in further update of your HQ Revision. I can share with you:
- a digital download version of Chinook (with no vinyl hiss)
- another, more decent FLAC rip of BOC Maxima with better frequency spectrum (up to 20khz), because in your file all the exclusive tracks are apparently low-quality mp3s (with cut-off at around 16kHz). So most probably that FLAC rip you used was dodgy

Let me know in case you are interested.

Thanks,
D

[oliveoil22]

I think I can help you in further update of your HQ Revision. I can share with you:
- a digital download version of Chinook (with no vinyl hiss)
- another, more decent FLAC rip of BOC Maxima with better frequency spectrum (up to 20khz), because in your file all the exclusive tracks are apparently low-quality mp3s (with cut-off at around 16kHz). So most probably that FLAC rip you used was dodgy

ooh i might want those pmed to me as well if that's possible

[Dmitrii]

I just checked and apparently my copy of BOC Maxima is the same as found here: https://rareboc.ax.lt/bocmaxima-betacordremaster.zip