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Preamble: Interesting, isn't it, that your friends, who traded in their turntables for a new cd player back in 83 suddenly confess to having stacks of vinyl in the cellar when you mention you've been transferring some of your favorite albums to the confuser for uploading to your iPod?One 'friend' brought me a pile of Diana Ross albums (at least they weren't Barry Manilow or Dawn albums) and asked me, sweetly, while batting her eyelids, to make cd's out of them.
I gave them the distilled water/'surfactant' treatment. Most cleaned up quite nicely but one refused all efforts to shed its grunge. I nicknamed it Pigpen. More crackle than a frying sausage - quite unlistenable. Casting an eye over my bathroom cleaning supplies for something more, er, powerful, I spotted it. The perfect solution for really filthy records! Sweating slighty, I applied it in pure, undiluted form, gave the disk a light finger massage, rinsed very thoroughly (under the bathroom faucet - I told you this wasn't for the feint of heart)then vacuumed it dry (Don't ask - you don't want to know)
Result? An almost silent record - the only remaining noise came from surface scratches. Not only silent, but Diana sounded much clearer.
The perfect solution, you ask? Mr Clean Ultimate Orange.
Now, I haven't carried out any double blind tests, or run any statistical analyses, or done anything remotely scientific to be honest, but I did get a fine recording off the album. So I'm happy with it. Smells nice, too
True, it is only around 3 bucks a bottle (maybe proportionately less for a BIG bottle at Sams Club) and the label isn't handwritten in Hobbit. So you might not want to leave it sitting next to your modded TD124 for your friends to see. But if you have a seemingly no-hoper album you might want to consider trying it. You can always wait 'til 2am and sneak into the basement....
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Girlfriend??As for Ms Ross, I'd rather spend an eternity with Jesse Helms than another Evening With Diana.....
UKYou indicated that you gave the record the usual "water/surfactant treatment." Would you mind elaborating on just what this treatment is and what is used in cleaning the disc? Would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ron
Well, it's pretty much soapy water :-) Distilled water (as it contains fewer, if any, impurities), and a surfactant - which, if I understand it correctly, breaks down the surface tension of the water. There are numerous surfactants, sometimes referred to as 'wetting agents', but I find a few drops of Ivory Snow to a quart of water can work pretty well.Alternatively, isopropyl alcohol and a surfactant should dissolve most of the gunk in the grooves, after which you can flush it out with distilled water. The basic point to remember, I suppose, is that you want to get stuff OUT of the grooves, so don't use anything that leaves or adds stuff IN the grooves.
Search the boards for 'record cleaning' and you should find numerous recipes.
First, the Magic Eraser. Now, Ultimate Orange.Maybe the company should seriously start making vinyl cleaning accessories, eh.
:-)
Good to see more and more are realising what can be done when all else fails.
I hope this one is not deleted.
OLLY
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I've seen orange cleaner do horrible things to plastic. Always experiment with throw-aways when trying new non-lp specific stuff.
.. Ava Devine had made a vinyl pressing of wanton moaning or somethin'.
You know you go to Lost Wages
I googled Ava Devine. I rather wish I hadn't.
...a few thousand of us. That's what you get for googling based on filthy curiousity. Forgot to mention that it was with relief that the thread wasn't what I thought.
You know you go to Lost Wages
I don't mind trying stuff like that on the "no-hopers", fer sure. If nothing else, they might give me a chance to transfer the stuff to digital, just in case it's not good for the vinyl in the long run.Cheers,
Bobbo :-)
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