Smoking BAD for your HEALTH (& GEAR?)

[Hurmph]

So I guess it is widely known that it is bad to smoke near recording equipment. But as long as you don't use it as an ashtray, what exaclty happens to equipment if you smoke near it?
Just wondering.....

[Massive Master]

As a smoker, I can firmly attest to the fact that there is nasty, yellow, sticky residue from cigarette smoke that you don't want anywhere near your gear. God save your microphones when someone is smoking near them...

Gotta give it up some day... It's my last solid vice...

John Scrip - www.massivemastering.com

[tjohnston]

I think particles of ash and soot will collect on the circuit board and cause noise and such. Sniffing coke on your gear is Ok though.

[grinder]

Originally posted by tjohnston
Sniffing coke on your gear is Ok though.

It will make your converters run faster.

[Massive Master]

Next time you light up (or someone else if you don't) blow inhaled cigarette smoke though a piece of white cloth or a tissue...

Imagine that all over your gear...

[mpayne0]

LOL,

yeah, also don't smoke in your car, it might break down.

Don't smoke in a restaurant, your food will taste BAD!

Are you watching TV...with a joint in your hand???
Don't you know your screen will fade away soon??

OMG, my HAIR? is getting foggy!! time for the patch.

Hey, why is your CEILING black??

DO NOT COOK FOOD NEAR APPLIANCES.

LOL

[Hurmph]

Okay...


Coke=Good
Smoke=Bad

Got It!....Thanks!

[noisedude]

Originally posted by mpayne0
LOL,

yeah, also don't smoke in your car, it might break down.

Don't smoke in a restaurant, your food will taste BAD!

Are you watching TV...with a joint in your hand???
Don't you know your screen will fade away soon??

OMG, my HAIR? is getting foggy!! time for the patch.

Hey, why is your CEILING black??

DO NOT COOK FOOD NEAR APPLIANCES.

LOL

if you're defending smoking and claiming it's not bad for your gear, we have a word over here for people like you .....


muppet

[NYMorningstar]

Originally posted by noisedude
if you're defending smoking and claiming it's not bad for your gear, we have a word over here for people like you .....


muppet

Drumroll....and the word is Bloody What?

[The Green Hornet]

Yo Hurm:

I don't allow any smoking in my studio. Being one who did smoke back a bit, I had to have my apartment painted once a year to keep it looking decent due, mostly, to smoke.

But, there is another type of sticky air that will get gear -- cooking smoke.

I have this nice extra battery flip phone on the kitchen counter and one day when I replaced it in its cradle, the "charge" light did not go on. After I cleaned the contacts, it once again worked. So, any kind of dirt in air is a problem -- even a tv remote will collect enough gunk so that it needs to be replaced as some of the buttons make poor contact due to a collection of oils from the hand and smoke.

So, smoke your hams outside and keep your gear unstuck. But, it's your studio and you will do what you think is best.

Green Hornet

[Derek Verner]

Muppet (pay attention and sit up straight)

[mpayne0]

you just made me cry...
I take every word here as a personal stab to my heart!!

Sincerely, Mr. Muppet

PS...go online and order a sense of humor or learn about the tricks of sarcasm.

[noisedude]

*slaps forehead*

ah but it is in fact you my friend who is without humour.

pause for a moment and consider what we already know. i.e. that the yanks, god bless 'em blah blah blah, are not entirely understanding of the british wit. it has had many more years to mature. in fact, i believe i have many jokes older than your country, my dear boy

so to annunciate in words simple and unambigious, muppet could not ever be nor ever will be an insult of the order of incisive cruelty which you were expecting me to intend it. it was, in a word, a joke.



smoke all you like dude, and chill out or you'll blow an animal drumming fuse.

mwahaha stop smoking or you'll croak it like kermit way before your time

[distortedrumble]

HOW MUCH ARE YOU GUYS SMOKING A DAY!? jeez i admit I'm a smoker and i do smoke in my studio (usually not when recording) but during mixdown definitely or when the bass or guitar is pissing me off. I smoke in my room constantly (not a pack a day...maybe a pack every other day) and i dont have the residue or film.

[Derek Verner]

Take a puff and blow it through a piece of white cloth. The residue You see is what's left over after your lungs get their share. Where do you suppose all that residue goes when exhaled into your room or in the proximity of your recording gear? Computers are even worse because they have fans to inhale your second hand smoke.

[mpayne0]

i know you were joking chum!
I laffed as I read!

also, of course!
everyone respects Brit humor.
The accent helps too.

Possibly funnier, but we do have the likes of Pryor, Redd Foxx, Lawrence..
find one of their classics, and you may burst a vein in your neck laughing!

BTW, I don't smoke. hehehehe

[NYMorningstar]

Originally posted by distortedrumble
I smoke in my room constantly (not a pack a day...maybe a pack every other day) and i dont have the residue or film.

Boy, talk about denial. If all you have to smoke comes in packs, give it up, it's killing you and everyone you smoke that crap around. Garfunkel will tell ya, if you're going to smoke do it in the limo and smoke something worth smoking.

Ha HA HA Ha!

[CanopuS]

Think of all the gear you could buy if you stopped buying cigs...

[distortedrumble]

the other kind of smoke that is used partly for medicinal purposes isnt done in the studio.....well not in mine atleast lol maybe its different where others of you live but where I'm from weed is more expensive than cigs. ...think of all the cigs you could buy if you stopped buying weed and then think of all the gear you could buy if you stopped buying both weed and cigs. honestly if i didnt spend it on cigs then it would be spent on beer and liquor. and if i didnt spend it there then I'd probably be one of those dedicated church going christians and the money would go to tithes.