I bought a lot of used vinyl. Turns out there's a lot of stuff that never made it to CD.
I clean them with a drop of dish soap. It works miracles.
I clean them with a drop of dish soap. It works miracles.
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I used to play a trumpet, and have no idea how a mere mortal could make it sound like that.
Obviously, I'll need a turntable. Can I simply get a turntable that has L and R line out, connect that to two of the line in inputs on my audio interface (a PreSonus AudioBox iTwo) and record L and R from the turntable as two tracks in any handy DAW (probably GarageBand), split those tracks up to match the song splits on the LP, mix corresponding L and R (with the L track panned all the way left and R track panned all the way R) and export those?
I just wet it under the kitchen faucet, put a drop of palmolive on it, rub it in the direction of the grooves with my fingertips, rinse it, shake the drops off, lean it against something vertically to dry.
Nobody believes it's that simple, but it is. I've cleaned many hundreds of used records that way. It's just a piece of plastic.
(I mean liquid dish detergent, meant for handwashing dishes. The powder stuff will scratch.)
You'll still need to pick the fuzz off of your needle now and then. I make a little brush for that by tearing the corner off a sheet of paper.
I use iso alky on a cotton ball to clean the scanner all the time, too.
Dish soap is fine on vinyl records, but use distilled water. The "residue" is more likely to come from unfiltered tap water than soap. And let them air dry completely before re-sleeving them because they can and will grow moldy, especially if the records are put away wet with paper sleeves.
You don't need a fancy brush for cleaning the stylus, but a polyurethane gel pot is even easier to use (just dip the stylus tip in it), more thorough, and trivial to clean.
The only "fancy" vinyl accessories that've really provided a lot of value for me are a grounded anti-static brush: https://www.turntableneedles.com/grounded_carbon_fiber_lp_br...
And a cartridge/stylus upgrade, which for this setup probably doesn't need to be anything more than an $80 Ortofon Red and could easily be less. AFAICT this Pioneer has a replaceable cartridge.