What Causes Surface Noise On Vinyl

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What causes surface noise on vinyl.

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. Generally speaking really noisy records have one of 5 causes. Another significant source is the process of removing a vinyl record from its plastic inner sleeve. Show this post.

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. Surface noise on brand new wax is another common complaint. Much of the time this can be seen by the naked eye in decent light grey areas in the grooves dull finish actual etch marks at specific points in the record etc but once in a while you ll simply be caught by groove damage that can t be seen. In fact as a matter of good practice i wet clean all my new vinyl before the first play.

In many cases new. Started by airports over 5 years ago 24 replies. 5 1k 20 airports over 5 years ago this post is hidden because you reported it for abuse. So i ve been using the project debut 3 and marantz pm5004 amp and i have a huge problem with surface noise.

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.