Flip it, scratch it, rub it down... the glue technique

[atomicAdam]

[poppachubby]

Adam, theres an extensive sticky regarding this at Audio karma. It works but is obviously a time killer. For that special find, perhaps...

[atomicAdam]

well shiat - it really works? how well does it deal with the static cling?

[poppachubby]

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=99837

[basite]

well shiat - it really works? how well does it deal with the static cling?

of course it works, well, it ain't the most ecological way to clean your records though

no idea on how well it deals with static, but I will find out very soon...

if the static isn't gone however, you can still wash it with a cheap cleaner, like a knosti disco antistat (which is what I use to clean my records), or a antistat gun...

[02audionoob]

I'm going to try it, perhaps just this once...

[poppachubby]

Lol, yes that's a truckload of glue. I would say 24 hours at least for it to cure fully. I bet you get a good result.

[frenchmon]

Watching and waiting.

[E-Stat]

... the glue technique

Thanks, but I'll stick to using the trusty VPI RCM. Regular use prevents records getting in bad shape.

rw

[02audionoob]

And so it's done. No big whoop from me.

I did this after a thorough cleaning with my regular method. After the glue method, nothing improved. I suppose that just proves to me that my regular method works as well as it is practical to achieve. I see under 60X magnification some tiny dark spots remaining on the record even after the glue method. This is one really noisy record, but I made a digital recording of it listenable with the click removal feature in Audacity. I'll still be looking for that keeper copy.

[poppachubby]

And so it's done. No big whoop from me.

I did this after a thorough cleaning with my regular method. After the glue method, nothing improved. I suppose that just proves to me that my regular method works as well as it is practical to achieve. I see under 60X magnification some tiny dark spots remaining on the record even after the glue method. This is one really noisy record, but I made a digital recording of it listenable with the click removal feature in Audacity. I'll still be looking for that keeper copy.

Off topic...did you use manual click removal or auto? Click repair is amazing and I will probably buy it.

[02audionoob]

Off topic...did you use manual click removal or auto? Click repair is amazing and I will probably buy it.

I don't know whether it's called auto or manual, but I just highlighted a section of music with clicks in it and chose the menu option for click removal. I then moved to another problem area and repeated the process. These areas I highlighted were usually minute or so.

When records sound fine except for isolated clicks and pops, I zoom in on them and repair them by manually copying some of the previous sound over them. Those segments are well under 0.1 seconds in length, so it's a tedious process that I don't do more than a few times on any given record...but it works really well.