Working on a semi-remastered Boc Maxima... (IT IS DONE)

Infinite E · Post by **Infinite E** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 5:09 pm

Actually scratch that... I'm listening right now. What can I say? FUCKING MEGAPROPS WOW

john fonda · Post by **john fonda** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:04 pm

much obliged

domco77 · Post by **domco77** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:25 pm

After seeking permission from Esselfortium I've uploaded the BOC Maxima remix tracks onto my Soulseek account. They have been labelled as *Trackname* REMASTERED to avoid any confusion. Let me know if this is OK.

My username on Slsk is domco77

Cheers!

mechanismj · Post by **mechanismj** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:29 pm

Thanks man! Sounds pretty good!

SpookyElec · Post by **SpookyElec** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 6:32 pm

Thank you. Excellent work!

Hanners · Post by **Hanners** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:25 pm

Listening to it at the moment - A job well done, thank you!!

As expected of someone with an Evangelion avatar.

monochrome · Post by **monochrome** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:27 am

This sounds sweet PM me if i'm not too late in noticing this. Can't wait to hear it.

thegr8brian · Post by **thegr8brian** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:25 am

esselfortium wrote:
thinkdontpray wrote:Well I'll be honest, I really didnt think that your remasters would sound any better simply by doing what you did, but I was proved wrong.

This is so fucking good. Major respect on this dude. This only reinforces my hope that they release their old stuff, remastered and sounding this good. Some of these tunes give me shivers whereas the old mp3s didnt do much for me due to the piss poor quality.

Thanks again.
Hehe, thanks. Keep in mind that most of the tracks on here only sound good because I used better recordings nabbed from other BoC releases. I think I was able to make the Maxima-exclusive tracks sound marginally better, but not "holy shit" good.

But thank you, I'm glad everyone is as happy with the result of this as I am.

Also, I'll send out PMs to the last few of you in the morning. I'm going to sleep now.

So can you describe what kind of enhancments you applied or techniques you used for the Maxima-exclusives?

esselfortium · Post by **esselfortium** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:48 am

thegr8brian wrote:
esselfortium wrote:
thinkdontpray wrote:Well I'll be honest, I really didnt think that your remasters would sound any better simply by doing what you did, but I was proved wrong.

This is so fucking good. Major respect on this dude. This only reinforces my hope that they release their old stuff, remastered and sounding this good. Some of these tunes give me shivers whereas the old mp3s didnt do much for me due to the piss poor quality.

Thanks again.
Hehe, thanks. Keep in mind that most of the tracks on here only sound good because I used better recordings nabbed from other BoC releases. I think I was able to make the Maxima-exclusive tracks sound marginally better, but not "holy shit" good.

But thank you, I'm glad everyone is as happy with the result of this as I am.

Also, I'll send out PMs to the last few of you in the morning. I'm going to sleep now.
So can you describe what kind of enhancments you applied or techniques you used for the Maxima-exclusives?

EQing and a bit of high-end reverb, set differently based on whether it's a Maxima recording or an Old Tunes one, and also based on the song itself, to a certain extent. On some of the Old Tunes tracks I added a bit of chorus.

For M9, I set up some auto-panning to imitate the auto-panning in the original Maxima version that doesn't exist on the Old Tunes one (basically, it pans from left to right and back at a set speed).

For Carcan, I was faced with the tedious task of figuring out the perfect loop points to get a seamless loop of the exact right length, so that it would sync up with Nlogax in the same way as the original, without the cut-up voices from the Old Tunes version coming in.

zzak · Post by **zzak** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:29 pm

A 2nd delurker writes!

This is excellent news (the remastering, not my delurking!).

Please esselfortium, would you PM me too?

monochrome · Post by **monochrome** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:07 pm

awesome, this remaster sounds great. It's like rediscovering the album.

good work!

hills west · Post by **hills west** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:01 pm

you should all respond with succulent blow-jobs... ive had this nice crispy version of maxima for years now... but enough about the things ive had forever...which sadly seems to lose value the more people finally get around to hearing it... once hooper bay and closes gets out for real than im not going to be a fan anymore... cuz then i wont have anything secret anymore... and by then boc will be a cereal in harrods...

YELLOW · Post by **YELLOW** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:31 pm

yo hills west, someone needs to hit you in the face

Derail · Post by **Derail** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:40 pm

YELLOW wrote:yo hills west, someone needs to hit you in the face

Agreed.

esselfortium · Post by **esselfortium** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:34 am

hills west wrote:you should all respond with succulent blow-jobs... ive had this nice crispy version of maxima for years now... but enough about the things ive had forever...which sadly seems to lose value the more people finally get around to hearing it... once hooper bay and closes gets out for real than im not going to be a fan anymore... cuz then i wont have anything secret anymore... and by then boc will be a cereal in harrods...

THAT HILLS WEST GUY IS PRETTY ZANY

YELLOW · Post by **YELLOW** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:57 am

indeed essel...im really diggin the new version of maxima

soupbandit · Post by **soupbandit** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:03 am

someone Pm me! I'm all intrigued now.

esselfortium · Post by **esselfortium** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:58 pm

soupbandit wrote:someone Pm me! I'm all intrigued now.

Sent.

Dalboz · Post by **Dalboz** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:58 pm

Me too! please!

PM!

soupbandit · Post by **soupbandit** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:13 pm

esselfortium. Nice Work!

This things is great.