So I have this electromagnetic-whatever cleaning cloth and brush but when I clean one side the other side gets all dusty because it sticks to the slipmat.
Is your room very dry? Is there a lot of static in your environment? Also it's possible that you just have really shitty slipmats - for example one of mine is branded Numark and is made from a foamy material which is different from the standard ones that you tend to see, and records stick to it all the time. But when I played my records at a friends place the other day that wasn't happening.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.
Mar-07-2012 17:21
Teezdalien
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
quote:
Originally posted by Woony
It's only like 3 months olds. I don't have a dust protection case though. Isn't there a way to clean the damn thing?
I'd suggest to cover your decks with something when not in use or your bound to have dust issues, one of the downsides of vinyl. As for cleaning the slip mat, I just run a vaccume cleaner over mine every so often, I've never tried washing them so I don't know if that's a good thing to try or not? Maybe someone else may have a better solution.
I also use record cleaning solution and it works excellently for actually cleaning the records.
Registered: May 2003
Location: Los Angeles (OC) / Mexicali
Slip mats get dirty all the time. There isn't much you can do about it except to put cover them or to put them in jackets/sleeves and brush them/clean them every now and then. However, to clean your records, you should be using this.
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Mar-07-2012 19:32
Woony
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Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Berlin
Mine seems sort of rubberish, maybe I need to get a better one. I'll try vacuuming it.
Originally posted by Adam420
Is your room very dry? Is there a lot of static in your environment? Also it's possible that you just have really shitty slipmats - for example one of mine is branded Numark and is made from a foamy material which is different from the standard ones that you tend to see, and records stick to it all the time. But when I played my records at a friends place the other day that wasn't happening.
What you have is pretty much the opposite of a slip-mat. Unless the bottom of it is non-stick, which I suspect is the case. Sounds like some space-age stuff!
Mar-13-2012 14:41
Adam420
Trance Free Since 2003
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Montreal, QC
quote:
Originally posted by dj_alfi
What you have is pretty much the opposite of a slip-mat. Unless the bottom of it is non-stick, which I suspect is the case. Sounds like some space-age stuff!
no it is a slipmat, I don't mean that they stick when I'm bending the record back/forward, but when I try to remove the record from the deck.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.
Mar-13-2012 17:02
itsamemario
Divine Angel
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Mushroom Kingdom
quote:
Originally posted by Adam420
no it is a slipmat, I don't mean that they stick when I'm bending the record back/forward, but when I try to remove the record from the deck.
haha okay so kinda like static electricity then?
Mar-13-2012 17:58
Teezdalien
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Static electricity attracts dust like nothing else.