Static On Records, Solution to Alleviate. |
Static On Records, Solution to Alleviate. |
 Jul 13 2012, 06:22
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Hey, guys: I was just wondering what some of you use to get rid of static on your LPs. I've been getting a few lately (usually from EU manufacturers) that are just loaded and impossible to play (and record) without an obnoxious amount of crackle. I try to kill it with an anti static cloth and some distilled water and it only seems to partially mitigate the problem.
Has anyone ever tried Static Guard? I'm not so eager to spend $99 USD on that static gun-thing, but all advice is appreciated. -------------------- The Loudness War is over. Now it's a hopeless occupation.
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Jul 13 2012, 11:24
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I'm sure I've written on treating static in at least two threads. I don't have the energy to do rewriting, or searching, right now, so it's up to you.
I'm sure there are disagreements, but I've never found the Zerostat to do much of anything useful. Static from static electricity, such as one might hope to fight with a Zerostat, attracts dust , Styrofoam, bits of paper, etc. to the LP surface. It can be prevented with an anti-static treatment. See the first sentence above. A crackly sound that is part of the disk or the recording thereon will not be effected by any such treatment. It might be remedied with software decrackling, after recording. I've written on the steps of the Younglove technique, or the Younglove script, as it is often called (because Younglove developed a script to do it in CoolEdit). It should be easy to accomplish in most editors if one understands what needs to be done. I don't know if I referred to it as Younglove or just as decrackling when I explained how to go about it. Then, various software packages include their own methods of decrackling. |
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Jul 16 2012, 08:43
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WaveRepair developer Group: Developer Posts: 774 Joined: 28-July 04 Member No.: 15845 |
QUOTE (AndyH-ha @ Jul 13 2012, 11:24)  A crackly sound that is part of the disk or the recording thereon will not be effected by any such treatment. It might be remedied with software decrackling, after recording. I've written on the steps of the Younglove technique, or the Younglove script, as it is often called (because Younglove developed a script to do it in CoolEdit). For more info about the Younglove technique, see here: http://delback.co.uk/lp-cdr.htm#clean_decrackle That discussion in turn has a link to an archive of the original thread where Younglove described their method. |
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Engelsstaub Static On Records Jul 13 2012, 06:22
mzil You might try playing the records wet by misting t... Jul 13 2012, 18:58 mixminus1 @OP: Are you sure it's static and not just lot... Jul 13 2012, 22:33 Engelsstaub Thanks for the posts guys.
mixminus1:I'm not... Jul 14 2012, 01:11
splice Breathe gently around the stylus area while the di... Jul 14 2012, 02:40 Engelsstaub QUOTE (splice @ Jul 13 2012, 20:40) Breat... Jul 14 2012, 11:56 AndyH-ha From some notes I found, this is the antic-static ... Jul 15 2012, 08:08 Engelsstaub Thanks, Andy. I'll settle on your advice and g... Jul 15 2012, 09:19 Engelsstaub I just finished reading that, cliveb, and it was v... Jul 16 2012, 11:43 DVDdoug I never had any noise that I would directly attrib... Jul 16 2012, 17:22 RonaldDumsfeld At the grave risk of offending an infinite # of TO... Jul 28 2012, 18:03 Engelsstaub I've never thought to try lighter fuel before.... Jul 28 2012, 19:21 stephan_g You may want to dig through this thread.
Once I g... Aug 4 2012, 14:17 Engelsstaub Thanks, Stephan. I'll check that out. I would ... Aug 4 2012, 22:08 |
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