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Author Topic: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?  (Read 12036 times)

dcollins

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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #30 on: July 20, 2007, 02:08:13 AM »

Garrett H wrote on Fri, 06 July 2007 21:31

All the masters I do are really soft.  The PEAK at -40.  That means less power used by power amps to play them.



If class A, they will waste the same amount of energy as full-chat just to spite you.

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Seriously, though.  Future generations are going to LAUGH at things we do, especially in terms of energy generation.  Heck, we go to space by strapping a big tank of explosive liquid to our rears and lighting a match...



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Really, whether it's solar powered satellites, oceanic temp change generation, earth axis spin repulsion - or some anti gravity thing we haven't figured out, there has got to be some really ingenious way to have much 'cheaper' energy.  I'm sure DC would have figured it out if he weren't always building LIMITERS!


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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #31 on: July 20, 2007, 02:24:03 AM »

Jerry Tubb wrote on Tue, 03 July 2007 02:05

   Other than the option of quitting the bizness, moving to a hay bale cabin in the country, growing organic produce, taking up the banjo, & living by candle light, much like my agrarian ancestors, that's about all I can think of.




Yeah right, like you don't already play the banjo.
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dcollins

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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #32 on: July 20, 2007, 03:08:16 AM »

Masterer wrote on Thu, 19 July 2007 23:24

Jerry Tubb wrote on Tue, 03 July 2007 02:05

   Other than the option of quitting the bizness, moving to a hay bale cabin in the country, growing organic produce, taking up the banjo, & living by candle light, much like my agrarian ancestors, that's about all I can think of.



Yeah right, like you don't already play the banjo.


I'm thinking an agrarian would walk five miles easy before firing up the pickup.  

Five minutes?

No F150 required.............

DC

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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #33 on: July 22, 2007, 07:25:10 PM »

fwiw... an email I came across (no responsibility taken for these measurements or use of the search engine):

When your computer screen is white - an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out.

www.blackle.com
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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #34 on: July 23, 2007, 11:54:15 AM »

Masterer wrote on Fri, 20 July 2007 01:24

Jerry Tubb wrote on Tue, 03 July 2007 02:05

   Other than the option of quitting the bizness, moving to a hay bale cabin in the country, growing organic produce, taking up the banjo, & living by candle light, much like my agrarian ancestors, that's about all I can think of.



Yeah right, like you don't already play the banjo.


Hahaha

Well I did play a little tenor banjo in a dixieland combo back in college, but that was 30 years ago.

dcollins wrote on Fri, 20 July 2007 02:08

I'm thinking an agrarian would walk five miles easy before firing up the pickup.


... and I suppose you walk thru West Hollywood everyday on your way [home}... or is that the point?

Cheers - JT

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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #35 on: July 24, 2007, 05:01:15 AM »

Adam Dempsey wrote on Sun, 22 July 2007 16:25


www.blackle.com



Awesomenissity! Thanks for the heads up...
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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #36 on: August 02, 2007, 10:10:00 PM »

I've been cycling and taking the train to and from the studio for the past three months.  Also, but on the home front,  I've been line-drying my clothes - that took twenty five percent off my natural gas bill.  Not to mention not having a second automobile anymore. More money, more exercise and less pollution. So far , so good.  I'm only recently stepping into mastering- but I guess it still counts.
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Re: What are you doing to GREEN UP your mastering operations?
« Reply #37 on: August 03, 2007, 12:23:38 PM »

I've been burning hippies for fuel.



Bamboo floors, recycled denim insulationhttp://www.bondedlogic.com/, dim lighting, careful AC use, little car and all because I know it balances out the use of tubes.

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