I have a "new to me" 30 year old tube amp. Every time I turn the thing off I stick my nose in there and take a sniff.
Smells like magic to me!
Smells like magic to me!
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Do you sniff your tube amp?
- Thread starter SolarMan
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A sniff test is part of buying a vintage amp. If it smells of smoke it could be a deal breaker unless I intend to recover it.
Magic smoke is something else. You don't want to suck it all out of the amp.
Magic smoke is something else. You don't want to suck it all out of the amp.
A sniff test is part of buying a vintage amp. If it smells of smoke it could be a deal breaker unless I intend to recover it.
Magic smoke is something else. You don't want to suck it all out of the amp.
My wife just saw this and laughed. She says that I'm taking "huge whiffs" - not just little sniffs. (she has been wondering what the heck I'm doing when I turn it off!)
Before photocopiers they had mimeograph machines. The pages came out smelling like alcohol. First thing that you'd do is take a sniff.
Yep. Ozone.
I went to a friends house one day and they had been using an "ozone generator" to kill the previous owners "smoke" smell in the house. It was one of these BIG machines that puts out like 14,000 units per hour.
Once the company shut it off - and waiting about an hour - we walked in and VIOLA!! Smoke smell was gone! BUT, it smelled just like a thunder shower had just finished....
GREAT SMELL!!!
Every time I crank up my Heritage - I'm reminded of that house!!
I went to a friends house one day and they had been using an "ozone generator" to kill the previous owners "smoke" smell in the house. It was one of these BIG machines that puts out like 14,000 units per hour.
Once the company shut it off - and waiting about an hour - we walked in and VIOLA!! Smoke smell was gone! BUT, it smelled just like a thunder shower had just finished....
GREAT SMELL!!!
Every time I crank up my Heritage - I'm reminded of that house!!
I totally do that! I thought maybe it was because I was new to all-tube. Turns out no. We're all weird, tube-sniffing perverts.
Thank God! I'm not alone. The smell makes lugging an 85 pound head around worthwhile.....right guys?
I don't own a tube amp, but yes, I have smelled them.
Another great smell is the finish in a brand new bass, specially if it is a nitro finish. I smell it everytime I pick up the bass from the bag/case.
Another great smell is the finish in a brand new bass, specially if it is a nitro finish. I smell it everytime I pick up the bass from the bag/case.
LOL!!!
I remember doing a gig and caught one of the guitarists sniffing my Trace Elliot V-6! It was in a 2 x 2-12 vertical stack and he had to go on tip-toe to get his nose in there.
I smiled and said, "Ahh, the smell of 6 cookin' KT-88s!"
Good times.
I remember doing a gig and caught one of the guitarists sniffing my Trace Elliot V-6! It was in a 2 x 2-12 vertical stack and he had to go on tip-toe to get his nose in there.
I smiled and said, "Ahh, the smell of 6 cookin' KT-88s!"
Good times.
