#recordcleaningmachine

I’m doing the unthinkable and actually selling off a few records on eBay, so I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning them in a HumminGuru ultrasonic record cleaning machine. The machine is one of the few times I’ve ever backed a Kickstarter campaign and since it arrived a month ago, it has been in steady use. It certainly tidied up this rare instrumental version of Guru’s classic Jazzmatazz Volume 1, featuring Donald Byrd, Branford Marsalis, Courtney Pine, Lonny Liston Smith and others. How could I give up such a classic? Er, I had two copies, believe it or not. You can only listen to one at a time, however, so it dawned on me that I should sell it and let someone else enjoy these tracks, too.

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I did a bit of record cleaning with my HumminGuru cleaner, and you can see the results pretty clearly. This is a record in an old radio concert of Journey from the early 1980s (radio concerts were syndicated to stations that way back then). It sat in a cheap-o plastic sleeve for a few decades and I guess the sleeve’s chemicals were starting to imprint on the record itself, leaving that weird smudging all over the vinyl. I ran it through the HG machine, and the results were mixed—because the smudging is so evenly distributed, you could see exactly where the HG did a great job cleaning it, and where it didn’t do much. Extremely long story short (I deleted most of this because IG said my caption is too long), I wound up spraying the record down with Groovewasher record cleaning liquid and following that brand’s cleaning method (spray your record, then wipe it with their brush, but let’s face it, that just pushes dirt around your record). Then I ran the record through the HG machine. Its ultrasonics cleaned off the Groovewasher liquid and dirt beautifully. I’m not happy about essentially using the HG as a very expensive sink, but on the other hand, it worked really well. Among HG owners online, there’s a school of thought of adding a drop or two of Groovewasher liquid to the HG machine’s water when you clean, but I didn’t see any difference. On the other hand, spraying down that record used a lot more than two drops, but it also got far better results, and you could see the difference even as the record was going through the machine—the water was getting into the grooves and not just sheeting across the record. More experimentation to follow.

I was cleaning up old records from the garage to throw on eBay, and found this particularly grubby one, so I took a snapshot first to document the process. Taking a record brush to any record will help it sound better, while also getting rid of easy-to-remove debris if you plan to clean it further in a machine. The HumminGuru machine dug in there nicely, as you can see from the bottom of the picture. 


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We are very proud to announce, Revilla Grooves and Gear is now a certified dealer of VPI Turntables, cleaning machines and accessories! We have some models on hand and others can be ordered. We will also supply parts for repair and upgrades. Come on in and listen to why VPI has been our top choice for home listening for nearly a decade. #vpi #vpiindustries #recordcleaningmachine #vpi16.5 #audiophile #hiendaudio #vinyl #records #recordstore #revillagrooves #revillagroovesandgear #audiostore #twochannelaidio #gearheads #audiogear #hiendaudiogear #analog #analogaudio #turntables (at Revilla Grooves and Gear) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsaxeFsgOoD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ueq395m1gux0