Name: Steve Kennedy
Email: steve@pacair.com
Subject: Smelly at high volume
Thread: 223
Time: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 19:33:46 UTC
Do you know the difference between the smells of a burnt resistor, burning transformer windings and hot mildew/mold/dust?
If you do not, have someone with electronics or amp experience smell your amp. If it is an electronic problem, the smell won't go away just because the amp cooled down and it should still be noticeable even with the amp turned off.
If it is truly a non-electronic musty smell, then you probably have built-up mildew, mold or dust inside the chassis that gets heated by the output tubes until it smells funny.
You could open up the chassis and thoroughly clean the chassis inside and out, get a fan to disperse the vapors or simply stand farther away from your amp!
Steve