How to Clean Your Record Collection

[@garrisonhuff6914]

This is the best record cleaning demonstration that I have seen so far. Thanks for this.

[@cirrus1964]

I will advise, try it, and you will find it a waste of time!

[@realrelapse2476]

@@cirrus1964 how is this a waste of time, have you ever spun a dirty record?

[@ericshutter5305]

Good, but don't expect to remove a static charge with that brush... it won't.

[@Gillmanbrcks]

Very good demonstration and simple explanation made clearly understood. Thanks a lot for the guidance. It's very useful for me to maintain the good sound of music👍

[@sudhirsingh-sx8lo]

micro fibre cloth is just as good as your diskwasher

[@jppitman1]

It`s been years since I`d listened to an actual record since the introduction of CD`s and their portability, but with a possible upcoming purchase of a turntable made by a company beginning with the letters "Sch", I`m ready to listen again to the albums I have remaining after a 2005 house fire (what a vinyl mess!), as well as my parents` old LP`s. I`d no idea the Discwasher was still around. Looks like I`ll be getting one.

[@MrPompanoman]

Today you can purchase a nice vacuum cleaning system for less than 200.00 I vacuum clean every record I purchase no exceptions new or used

[@MrPompanoman]

I am shocked Yamaha would endorse this nonsense lol

[@MARTIN201199]

@@MrPompanoman do you mean the vacuum?

[@MrPompanoman]

@@MARTIN201199 I mean a record cleaning machine that vacums records

[@ChiliCheeseSwag]

Thank you for addressing the line of dust! Every video just says use the brush but I knew I wasn't done when there's a line of dust there! I used this technique and double checked by just lifting the brush up and no more line of dust!

[@ICU81269]

This video does not show how to clean a record. My video shows how to really clean a record.

[@wayverleesoulsong]

I’ve just started collecting vinyl since last year and I cannot thank you enough for this video! Most videos only talk about how to do it instead of demonstrating, so again, thank you so much!

[@CeeStyleDj]

These videos are excellent. Keep making content like this Yamaha! :-)

[@klep2859]

No! You work with the grooves, not against. It has always been that way & now everyone is getting the wrong info & doing it wrong. There is a reason you go from the outside in.

[@dave.5035]

If its wrong why dont you make your own tutorial and show us how to doing it right? and give us the right info instead of commenting on others videos

[@klep2859]

@@dave.5035 I just did give you the right info. No video necessary.

[@ergloo6660]

Carbon fibre bristles are still twice the width of the groove hey if it makes you feel better, alcohol???? Don't give up your day job

[@squidwardian...9732]

Why do some people say hold the brush perpendicular to the vinyl?

[@MitchellRoman97]

great tutorial. thanks

[@biketech60]

The current Discwasher brush is a simple velour pad , not the special fabric of the RCA Discwasher of the past . Find a decent old one . A cleaning machine with vacuum removal will get records so much cleaner and improve the sound more than most people can imagine . After such cleaning they always need a distilled water rinse and vacuum . It's audible

[@PatrickRyder-k1n]

I do a quick clean with cloth/brush then put em on my table and rock out!!.. only if i have a real dirty lp do i do any kind of deeper clean..been doing this for 40 years.. sounds awesome.. I bought them to play not give them the white glove treatment...best tip play them wet and call them lps not vinyls....to each there own

[@piotr7182]

Can you use a dust brush when the turntable is spinning ? I asking because I was doing like this and now my turntable is not spinning. I don't what has happened :|

[@davenelson8187]

I’ve always spun up the platter by hand applying finger pressure at the outer edge of the label into the end area of the grooves, before hand. At least twice or more as needed.

[@krustyassninja666]

But but but ... Ya don't clean a record on the turntable. That knocks dust on the turntable and that is now there to go to the underside of the record. Ya know how static works right?

[@littleandy1209]

Hey, let's pretend the CD hasn't been invented yet...

[@TheRealKettchupp]

Very helpful. Thank you for the useful information 🙏🏽

[@rajg8136]

What's the make & model of carbon brush?

[@motionlightforge-videoprod9836]

Great video, thank you.

[@elliotmann8882]

Groovy!

[@seand67]

Very informative

[@adriancressy8363]

It would be very nice to hear a before and after applying these treatments to make a record better than new and reduce record noise.

[@paulc5358]

Ok everybody wants a Before & after sound test!!! But What You Really Want is a After TEST!!! Who cares what they sounded like before he cleaned it I want to know what it sounds like after he cleaned it.. I know everybody want to hear crackle and pop's then watch how they clean it then hear the play back with nothing but music & that's the machine there going to buy!! Well that the wrong way of looking at it. I used to clean my records with a Q-typ before getting a Project VC-E clean machine. By putting my fluid on the record then while the record is spinning I lightly put my Q-tip on the record moving of back-and-forth and twirling it all the way from the outer edge to the center. They came out pretty clean to me it took a while but it worked . The cleaning pads/ brushed work great to get the top dirt off but, if there really dirty then you may want to get a a vacuum or an ultrasonic cleaning machine both of those will work great.

[@alanhaywood01]

Most snap, pop and crackles are due to junk in the grooves rather than record damage, so almost any cleaning will improve the record. The important thing is to avoid cleaning solutions that might leave crud in the groovesI can convert almost unbearably bad LPs to near mint after wet cleaning (mostly)

[@Querencias7]

EXCELLENT, nice job indeed. Many thanks for the clear, professional tutorial. Wondering: Is the black arrow on the end of your (old-school non-bristle) brush supposed to indicate a direction for use? Again, much obliged.

[@JamesE707]

Good video. I wonder too, if it's worth applying some wetting agent like Ilfotol?

[@knockshinnoch1950]

My dad had an anti static gun at one point back in the late 70s along with one of those electric rotational cleaning machines. There was also a roller that had a sticky tape that would need to be replaced regularly.

[@helgar791]

The proper way to use a carbon fiber record brush. Ignore the Discwasher demonstration with the fluid which will leave a film, and the Discwasher brush that just pushes dirt further into the grooves. There is no brush in the world whose bristles are smaller than the grooves of a record. The second best way to clean a record is using a vacuum cleaner. Some of these cleaners are better than others. The best way is to use an ultrasonic record cleaner.

[@themidnightchickenpodcast3643]

do some research before spouting off incorrect information please. i looked up everything for you. most carbon fiber brushes are .02mm, most record grooves are .04mm - .08mm. Human hair is .01mm - .02mm thick usually