Archive Volume II

The Buck Dharma Limited Edition Archive Series is three CD's culled from Buck's private tape vault, featuring his original demo recordings of BÖC hits and songs and studio oddities never previously released, all newly mastered by Buck with state of the art digital gear. All vintage analog tapes were "baked" to restore playability, digitized at 24 bits/44.1 kHz and mastered to 16 bit CD at the final stage of the process. Unless otherwise noted, all instruments and vocals are by Buck. The recorder pictured on this volume of the Archive is the Ampex ATR 700, a stereo machine made for Ampex by TEAC in the late '70s and early '80s. It's a two track recorder using 1/4" tape and was available with both 1/2 and 1/4 track heads. It became Buck's stereo master recorder when he acquired one during BÖC's endorsement of Ampex, and it was used extensively in remastering these archive recordings. Almost all of the better sounding demos from the '80s were mixed onto this machine.