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I've had a Nitty Gritty for 20+ years - bought it when I was in high school - and have lately taken to scrubbing with a lint brush and using the Nitty Gritty to vacuum. This works fine with my homebrew fluid, and I'm pleased with the results.
However, I find that I tend to listen to the same records I've cleaned over and over again, as I don't want to take the time to clean something new prior to play as it disrupts my mood. I need to figure out some kind of cleaning routine, I guess, but I can't wrap my head around a solution.
What do you do? Get your cleaning materials out in one place and spend a few hours cleaning at a time? Clean a few discs prior to a listening session? I'm sure others know what I'm talking about, and I'm just wondering what works for most. I have a lot of junk store buys that I wouldn't play without cleaning, but I don't normally clean before each play if it's already been done.
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at a time, it's just too friggin' boring. But even at ten-at-a-time, if you are disciplined enough to do that several times a week, you'll soon (well, sooner that if you'd done nothing) be through them. Then it's just a matter of keeping up with the new stock.
And remember, once they're done-they're done. Just don't read about any fabulous new cleaning regimes that blow all the old ones out of the water.
and my "to-be-cleaned" LPs in a bin sorted in the order I am most likely to clean/listen to them. When I listen, I look in the TBC bin and decide which ones (if any) I am going to invest the time to clean. I grab my already clean lps and start to spinning. For those that get cleaned, it usually ends up being 1 or 2 on a weeknight, 8-10 on a weekend. I have about 400 LPs that need cleaning.
I have also bribed my daughter into cleaning but at $0.50/LP she decided it wasn't worth her effort (KIDS!?).
when I'm cleaning something I've not heard before. Will it sound like hell, will it be a great recording? I dunno. Cleaning doesn't bother me though.
I usually have a stack of "to be cleaned records". Occasionnaly I clean a few every day, but there are days when I don't clean. After I listen to an LP, previously cleaned or not, I will put it back in the "to be cleaned" stack depending if I feel that it can benefit from another cleaning. I know some members have quite a few more records than I do, I usually only buy well kept used LP's and they all get cleaned eventually. I can imagine the amount of time it must take to clean hundreds of LP's, especially those that buy in mass quantities.
I definitely like listening much more than cleaning!
Tom
before each side. I have LPs I cleaned on my first VPI RCM 25 years ago that I've not had to reclean yet.
HenryCogito Ergo Spud
to your record. Handle them only to put them on and take them off. Henry is 100%...well, maybe 99 and 44 one hundredths percent correct.
It's amazing how dirty a record can get sitting inside a new sleeve, inside its jacket with the jacket covered with a plastic sleeve.
Most times you just need that fiber brush, though.
I can't stop gushing about the disc doctor brushes, though. I've never had such quiet records!
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better than the AQ?
Just so you don't go down the wrong route. The AQ brush is (mainly) for dry brushing records once they have been cleaned. The Disc Doctor brushes are for wet application of the cleaning fluid and/or rinses. They can't be used for dry brushing (although the AQ can be used for wet).
But I was shocked at how quiet my records got. There's no hope for real damage, but apparently the microfibers of the DD brushes must get stuff from the grooves that the nylon (HORROR!) VPI brush left behind.
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I bought a VPI nylon brush for lightly scraping difficult grunge spots and found the brush to be basically worthless as designed. The brush is so stiff that I had to shave off about two thirds of the bristles before it could even be used. And even then the bristles don't even begin to get down into the record groove.
But you may have a different brush.
Tom
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon
I often wondered why they chose a brush like that, but accepted it for years until lplvr told me about the DD brushes.
I had recently bought some microfiber brushes that I was using, they were made for painting wall edges. They did a better job than the nylon, but the DD brushes really surprised me with how quiet my records became with their use.
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