Do you like the smell of your tube amp?

[Trollbait]

I just purchased a used Crate Palomino 32. Great tone at bedroom volume.

It has a slightly off smell to it as the tubes heat up and this amp is known to run hot. So perhaps it's the dusty tubes.

My 60's fender twin, that I sold to help buy 20 steers, had a Similar smell, but better somehow.

So that lends the question, does dust from different places smell different when heated by a tube amp. Do different tubes or different wattages make a difference in smell?

 

[jellodog]

The warm wood of the cabinet is also part of the smell. Pine, birch etc..

 

[Holden Afart]

I'll die before I live without the smell of hot tubes!!!!

 

[la szum]

I had a Palomino V32 head and 2 x 12 Cab setup and I distinctly recall how hot that sucker ran, and the smell
that came from that heat.

Those EL84s are just a cooking. Cool amp with some great tones.

 

[laxu]

Dust cooking off hot tubes is a nice smell. But I have had some amps that didn't smell quite so nice.

 

[the-trooper]

Mine is upside down so there is no dust on tubes. Though cooked electronics smell nice too.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I had a Palomino V32 head and 2 x 12 Cab setup and I distinctly recall how hot that sucker ran, and the smell
that came from that heat.

Those EL84s are just a cooking. Cool amp with some great tones.

Just take of the nameplate

 

[Achilles]

 

[mavrick102000]

Beat me to the exact meme I was thinking of...

 

[Trollbait]

The warm wood of the cabinet is also part of the smell. Pine, birch etc

You might be on to something there. From a couple of places where the tolex is ripped, it appears the cabinet is made out of some type of dense press board which most likely is heavily saturated with glue. Might explain the horsey/cattle smell.

I think that perhaps I should have made this thread a poll.

Who makes the best smelling tube amp? :)

 

[spawnofthesith]

Gibson has the best smelling guitars and mesa has the best smelling amps

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Getting flashbacks from when I bought that Laney IRT Studio that smelled like the Marlboro man's hat collection

 

[FuzzyAce]

I'll die before I live without the smell of hot tubes!!!!

I'm gonna put that smell in a can and spray it on my Helix.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Getting flashbacks from when I bought that Laney IRT Studio that smelled like the Marlboro man's hat collection

I had that with a hot rod deville I bought. It was really cheap but it took months for the smell to die down. Even 6 months later when it got hot the smell would come back. I ended up selling it to a mate of mine who still smoked and didn't seem to mind it.

 

[Achilles]

I'm gonna put that smell in a can.

Too late.