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Help Anti Static Brush creates MORE static

Help! I am using an audioquest anti static brush to dust of my records BUT when I use it, as the needle is dropping down a series of loud static pops occur, and in addition during playback loud static pops occur. Sometimes I get these static pops after brushing a record before the needles even touching the record.

btw - On the same records, when I wet clean (using vpi hw16.5) this DOES NOT OCCUR. What's going on here? I figured I would use the brush for recently cleaned records, but its completely unusable. any ideas /suggestions re static greatly appreciated
jpearce1b

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tfkaudio
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Even though it's an anti-static brush, the static generated by brushing has to go somewhere. Try two things and see if either help:

1) Ground yourself. Touch something metal with your free hand while you brush the record.

2) After brushing the record, lightly touch the brush to the tonearm at the front and back. If you get some static pops when you do this, that means that the static generated by brushing the record is being stored in the tonearm.

Hope it helps. If not, a zerostat gun is an option, too.

Tom
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