What Causes Surface Noise On Vinyl

Another significant source is the process of removing a vinyl record from its plastic inner sleeve.

What causes surface noise on vinyl.

Surface noise on spankin new vinyl. John peel s famous surface noise quote is held up as capturing perfectly the sentiment behind vinyl s unlikely revival in the digital age. So i ve been using the project debut 3 and marantz pm5004 amp and i have a huge problem with surface noise. Started by airports over 5 years ago 24 replies.

Show this post. Save thread notify me of replies join group. Digital music production and playback has allowed us to clean up the noise of analog tape and production techniques to a level of perfection never thought possible throughout most of the 20th century. I don t think grounding is the issue as the noise is mostly crackles pops hisses and a constant hissy sound only audible when the record is playing and not audible through anything digital.

In many circumstances you should be able to fix this one yourself by wet cleaning the vinyl either by hand or using a record cleaning machine. The principal cause of static electric charge on the surface of a record is the friction between the playback stylus and the vinyl groove wall that occurs when a record is played. In fact as a matter of good practice i wet clean all my new vinyl before the first play. Generally speaking really noisy records have one of 5 causes.

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