Question about smoking cigarettes in next room over from equipment.

[drtechno]

I live in an apartment and I have all my recording equipment and instruments set up in my bedroom (iMac, audio interface, electronic keyboard, dynamic and condenser mics, guitar amplifier, guitars, etc...). I'm a one night a week cigarette smoker, and the winters get very cold where I am. My bathroom is the next room over from my bedroom, several feet away. If I were to have some cigarettes one night a week in the bathroom with the window open and do my best to blow out the window, and have both the bathroom and bedroom doors closed, what do ya'll think the odds are that my equipment will degrade or get damaged from the smoke?? The only way for the smoke to travel to my bedroom from the bathroom would be through the cracks in both doors.
I've heard that cigarette smoke can damage electronics, so I thought I'd ask what everyone thinks.

Its not a big deal as people think, but over time, you have to clean the equipment. I bought used studio equipment from someone who smoked cigarettes and weed in their control room for 20 years. Some stuff I cleaned controls, but most of the smoke residue was on the boards that I just cleaned and put it back together. The advantage I saw was the cheaper price tag and had to buy a few cans of board wash to get the smell out. Live stuff gets more dirty, but that is because fog machines+cigarette smoke deposits all of the dust in the air on the electronics.

Microphones you should store in cases. I have mine in a chest of drawers, with the top two smaller drawers foam lined and cut out for microphones that didn't come in a storage box.

 

[ecc83]

In the TV trade we would get sets in with the screen so smoke covered that you would think the CRT had "gone"!
There is a magic fluid called "Ambersil" which is a foaming, anti-static cleaner and works a treat on most surfaces. TV screens, plastics and Tolex but you can't get it into electronics because it is water based.

WD-40 will clean most things and do no harm but not everyone likes the smell. Meths is good but be careful with lettering and certain plastics.

The paint inside old radio dial glasses comes off if you just SPEAK to it harshly!

Dave.

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

I've found peace of mind in using VIHO Supercharge, a smoke-free vaping alternative. It not only eliminates the risk

So yer sayin that blowing bong hits at your rack gear doesn't improve the sound?

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

Seriously,

Rob, I got a video idea for ...your next video. Do an artificial sweetener ultimate death match between, the Aphex Aural exciter, the BBE Sonic Maximizer, and the Dolby 361's 'encoding' effect. Show people how big of a difference these things can make to a track. How somehow they make it nicer. If you buy into the sound of that time period, they work fantastically IMO. Should be worth a video. See em in action LIVE.

The BBE is cell phone clarity tech adapted.
Aural (oral) Exciter adds frequencies not there before.
Dolby encoding is ' a touch of pure magic' .

 

[rob aylestone]

Ok pop them in the post and i sort it!

 

[crow f]

Hi all,

I live in an apartment and I have all my recording equipment and instruments set up in my bedroom (iMac, audio interface, electronic keyboard, dynamic and condenser mics, guitar amplifier, guitars, etc...). I'm a one night a week cigarette smoker, and the winters get very cold where I am. My bathroom is the next room over from my bedroom, several feet away. If I were to have some cigarettes one night a week in the bathroom with the window open and do my best to blow out the window, and have both the bathroom and bedroom doors closed, what do ya'll think the odds are that my equipment will degrade or get damaged from the smoke?? The only way for the smoke to travel to my bedroom from the bathroom would be through the cracks in both doors.
I've heard that cigarette smoke can damage electronics, so I thought I'd ask what everyone thinks.

Thanks,

G

you are good to go if the window is open sucking it out Enjoy your smoke

 

[Slouching Raymond]

As a non-smoker, I say give it up.
Smokers always excuse themselves.
I had someone smoke in my house decades ago. Just one cigarette.
The soft furnishings still stank three weeks later.
They start smoking as children, so they look grown up. Then they're hooked and have to waste a fortune on the filthy habit.
That fortune could have bought a flashy studio setup.

 

[rob aylestone]

I was having my van serviced, the mechanic told me to have a look in the car he was doing. I stuck my head in and it had a coating of grey dust on everything and the nicotine smell even overpowered the smell of weed. Everything was brown stained - every surface, the seats, the headlining. Truly disgusting, and he said he felt dirty just sitting inside it with every window and door open. It stunk his workshop out for weeks!

 

[LazerBeakShiek]

building my own hot rods. must say..They love to run rich ..get all black and sooty.

y'all need to blow the carbon off the valves...

 

[Scott Baxendale]

Hi all,

I live in an apartment and I have all my recording equipment and instruments set up in my bedroom (iMac, audio interface, electronic keyboard, dynamic and condenser mics, guitar amplifier, guitars, etc...). I'm a one night a week cigarette smoker, and the winters get very cold where I am. My bathroom is the next room over from my bedroom, several feet away. If I were to have some cigarettes one night a week in the bathroom with the window open and do my best to blow out the window, and have both the bathroom and bedroom doors closed, what do ya'll think the odds are that my equipment will degrade or get damaged from the smoke?? The only way for the smoke to travel to my bedroom from the bathroom would be through the cracks in both doors.
I've heard that cigarette smoke can damage electronics, so I thought I'd ask what everyone thinks.

Thanks,

G

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