Remove Cracks From Vinyl Records

Also wet cleaning our records by using a velvet brush and a proper record cleaning fluid should be done from time to time.

Remove cracks from vinyl records.

A good habit is to give our records a quick dry clean with a carbon fiber brush before every play. Use light pressure and long strokes when brushing. Place a clean soft towel or sheet on top of a table or clean hard surface and lay your record on top. Usually i ve found that the default threshold values work fine most of the time but feel free to play around wih them a bit to get the sound you desire.

Once the track is selected click on effect click removal. Make sure you are extremely gentle when rolling the record in the glue and take extra care not to get the glue in the groves. Where the crack is roll this part of the vinyl into the super glue at a vertical angle like below. A carbon fiber brush is the best tool to remove dust and particles from our records.

Brush the vinyl record very carefully with the toothbrush. This tutorial will instruct you on how to remove 3m invisible paint protection film that has become brittle over the years and does not peel off in nice easily manageable strips. To remove pop clicks from the entire recording you can do this by pressing ctrl a or select all from the edit menu. Rubbing the scratch with a toothpick helps get into the small cracks and lift up stubborn debris.

With a few easily attainable tools and a lot of patience one can make take the film off making it look like it was never there.