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

[David Lennick]

Correction..it was D4. Lektrostat was the stuff we used back in the 60s and we 
really did wet play them..shpritz some onto the disc, then put the cleaning pad 
on top of the tone-arm head to push the stylus down into the grooves. Then once 
a week we'd take the albums down the hall and clean 'em with Ivory Soap and 
paper towels and they survived just fine.

David Lennick wrote:
> I had to use the opposite approach a few years ago when I worked the all night 
> shift at CFRB and wanted to play LPs that had been Lektrostatted to death, we 
> didn't have a disc cleaner and they were refusing to buy any more Lektrostat 
> since most of the "music universe" they wanted played was on CDs and carts. 
> Screw 'em, I said..styli are easier to replace than LPs at this point. So I'd 
> put a dime on the tone arm and play the track I wanted all the way through with 
> the pot down while I had something else going. One play and the track was clean 
> enough for me to put on air. And I never lost a stylus.
> 
> dl
> 
> neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>   It has been said that if you wet-play a shellac records you will
>>> never again be able to play it except wet.
>> No one is more of an opponent of wet-playing than I am. I've transferred
>> transcriptions that had been wet played and were noisy as heck until
>> liquid was added to the equation. Some lacquers as well. It has been
>> said? It has been experienced, by me. And yes, the gunk on your stylus
>> used to be your record. That's why I was appalled when I saw someone
>> doing this on TV, some who had been affiliated with LC who should have
>> known better. We discussed all this on the list after it was broadcast.
>> Names escape me. (UPDATE: In a post I read b4 sending this one off, Mike 
>> Biel referenced the broadcast. IIRC that was done with the use of a 
>> q-tip to spread water in front of the stylus as it played and was said 
>> to be for CLEANING it? Do I recall correctly?)
>>
>> But the ironic part is that I've tried wet playing 78s that were NOT
>> previously wet played, and I don't recall hearing an improvement on the
>> sound. It was a while ago, so maybe I am not recalling correctly.
>>
>> But if it were a viable solution using common records, I might do it, if
>> the producer would buy me a set of stylii first. Yea, that will happen...
>>
>> joe salerno
>>
>>
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