[78-L] Removal of hiss - a different approach

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Absolutely. Vinyl will also deteriorate over time using the wet play 
method, even with light tracking arms. It'll pit and begin to sound like 
those UK 78 pressings that snap, crackle and pop even when new. Wasn't 
it some Parlophones had that problem?
I still use wet play on LPs and 45s and vinyl 78s when making one 
transfer. I use the same solution I do for cleaning: a drop or two of 
Dawn dish detergent in a quart of distilled water to break the surface 
tension of the water.
Mal

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Michael Biel wrote:
> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
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>> I know an audio engineer who does 78 re-issues who sometimes wets the record before playing it in order to reduce stylus friction and hence hiss noise.. I don't know what liquid he uses, i.e. oil, water, soap, etc. 
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> A reminder from an earlier posting on this subject yesterday -- you can 
> not wet play shellac records.  If you do so you will never be able to 
> properly play them the normal dry way ever again.  You will ruin shellac 
> records by playing them wet.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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>> David Harvey 
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>> This isn't really a novel approach.  Often in my career with CBC radio, when we were broadcasting old 78s or even Lps which were noisy, we had a water bottle with an eye-dropper lid with which we would wet the record while we were playing it.  We did this mainly on old transcription turntables which had arms weighing a pound or two.  When using more modern light-tracking arms, it has to be done judiciously because if you apply too much water, the stylus will start hydro-planing, which can be distracting on live radio.  I think this was a method used when necessary by Clyde Gilmour, (a local collector who had a program called "Gilmour's Albums").
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