There’s a smell to old analog gear, a mix of hot dust, ozone from the transformers, and the faint, metallic scent of the solder joints …
Confessions of a Sound Engineer: Taming the Chaos with the dbx DriveRack 260

There’s a smell to old analog gear, a mix of hot dust, ozone from the transformers, and the faint, metallic scent of the solder joints …