Bedroom Humidifiers For Winter

[Pop]

Hello friends.

It's funny that ILF always comes to mind first when I'm thinking along the lines of consumer reports.

ANYWAY.

I've had a few different humidifiers over the past few years for my studio apartment, but now I'm living in a bigger apartment and I have a bedroom. So I'm looking at smaller/personal/bedroom humidifiers and I'm wondering if you folks have any recommendations.

I hate having to deal with filters, but I've also read that without filters, you have to deal with the "white dust" or calcium dust that settles on your stuff. I'm weary of this because my bedroom doubles as my recording haven and I don't want my precious old school analog gear getting a bunch of shit all over it.

Apparently AIR O SWISS makes some good ultrasonic humidifiers that don't give out too much calcium dust. I don't know if those are just an ultra-modern SIGG Bottle equivalent of humidifiers or something but they look pretty good. Otherwise I may just go back to Honeywell and deal with the filters.

THANKS!

[Chankgeez]

How is your place heated?

[Uncle Grandfather]

that feel when hvac has humidifier built in.

[Pop]

How is your place heated?

Ah yes, forgot to add that.

My new apartment has registers along the walls... so there is faaaaaaar less dryness than my studio was. That was heat being blown in through vents. So this is much better so far, but I'd still like to get a small humidifier.

Perhaps I don't need to worry about it with registers? Those are usually heated by water anyway.

[Chankgeez]

OK, so, it's forced hot water?

Yeah, it's still gonna dry things out. Unless it's a really old apartment, it should be a totally closed system.

I usually go with the cheapest option, which is putting open containers of water directly on the registers.

[Holy Schnikes]

I started making my own in-case humidifiers for winter months after dealing with some fret sprout and binding cracks on an old Les Paul. It's easy and super cheap.

Just buy a travel soap container, drill holes (top and bottom), cut some sponges to fit inside, keep sponges moistened with DISTILLED water (prevents rust/corrosion issues), and monitor with a small digital hygrometer. I velcro everything in the case so it stays in place and humidity hovers between 45%-50% as long a I remember to remoisten sponges regularly.

[benjuro]

I started making my own in-case humidifiers for winter months after dealing with some fret sprout and binding cracks on an old Les Paul. It's easy and super cheap.

Just buy a travel soap container, drill holes (top and bottom), cut some sponges to fit inside, keep sponges moistened with DISTILLED water (prevents rust/corrosion issues), and monitor with a small digital hygrometer. I velcro everything in the case so it stays in place and humidity hovers between 45%-50% as long a I remember to remoisten sponges regularly.

Pure GENIUS, this is sage advice dudes...