Record cleaning vs Last Record Preservative

If your records get noisier after cleaning, something is obviously wrong.

Is there increased static electricity? If so, a product as cheap and benign as Gruv Glide could really help out.

If not static, look at your cleaning regimen. Several folks over at the Vinyl Asylum positively swear by the combination of RRL fluid and DiscDoctor brushes. I have DiscDoctor brushes and fluid, no vacuum, and they work fantastically well. There is something about the specific nap and handle on those brushes, they really do work great.

Remember, the vacuum just speeds up the drying process, for convenience. Also make sure the vacuum nozzle isn't gunking up the equation.

Best of luck.

Let me clarify my earlier post.

Doug Deacon was right to correct me, in that a vacuum is not merely "for convenience."

HOWEVER . . . .

The Disc Doctor instructions call for a post-cleaning dry using a clean, soft cotton sheet, then a rinse, then another dry with a different sheet, then a final air dry. Now that sounds like a big pain in the arse, but in truth once you get it all set up, getting through a bunch of records is quite easy--much like doing the dishes.

For those of us who can't yet spring for a good vacuum machine (and in truth I think that I will hold out for the Loricraft), it gets us very close.

And certainly shouldn't ADD noise to records.

All the best,
Steve