How to fix a scratched or skipping vinyl record album.
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2020
- This technique does not work or 78s. I also forgot to mention that you can hear a few pops still as the track starts. Getting out pops in deadwax is almost impossible because it’s just quiet. I did go back and clean up the first two grooves as the track starts and the pops are all but gone. Thanks for watching.
That cardboard example was sick! Lol
Our props department is underpaid for sure
Don't need anything. Just skip the skip.
@@mab7175 yes but then I sounds bad
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I was wondering 🤔 Maybe cardboard cut in circles would had been a better medium for making records instead of vinyl anyway.
@@mab7175 should be metal so blowing on it doesn’t damage it🙄
Love the cardboard groove explainer ✌️🌹🇦🇺
This is a public service for us vinyl enthusiasts-thank you!
Great to see someone trying to preserve these gems, regardless of the effort it takes, kudos to you 👍
Cardboard skip demo best explanation ever....good work !
That was the best way to explain a record skip, pretty ingenious, great job and thank you!
Thank you Sir, very informative, and thanks for calling them 'RECORDS' and not 'vinyls'! I fixed an old scratched and jumping K-Tel record recently, probably only worth 5 bucks to many, it has some great 70s tracks on it! I used a toothpick. Sounds great now. Greetings from the UK.
i've used that exact same technique for years with about 90% success rate. never had the patience to go over a long scratch like that but i've fixed dozens of skips and sticks. good work!
I have plenty of success with the "Locked grooves" even without a microscope lens, because those are quite easy to identify. with a simple toothpick. sometimes it's not even a scratch, but rather a dirty small bit doesnt come off easily even cleaning, but with the toothpick it does the trick
@@j.r.1903
Next time use a hammer and a center punch. One hit will do it.
Getting back to my vinyl after 40yrs lots of good stuff to pickup on thxs
Loving the example, made it all very clear for me, a visual learner. Thank you so much!
Honestly I didn't even finish watching had to stop and say that you cardboard demonstration is seriously the best. okay, continue watching...
My prop department is top shelf. There’s a later video with visuals as well. Thank you for watching!
@@spatulacityrecords6263 Awesome!
Just want to tell you that I used your technique to remove a scratch skip and it worked!!
Had a Bing Crosby Christmas song that had a skip…. Used your method and it plays great.
Enjoy your site.. have learned a lot
Thanks for the tip!!
Bob
Love your giant groove demo. Brilliant.
Lol. Gracias.
Very slick presentation which explained it well.
Thank you very much for this video. I dropped a brand new copy of The Cure's Disintegration my first time playing it, while flipping from the C side to the D side, and in the heat of the moment I broke my rule to just let the record fall and hit the carpet (which won't hurt it). In my fumbling attempt to catch the record, I scraped it across the corner of the stylus cartridge and now have a scratch across the last 3rd of the title track. It still plays without skipping, but there's a pop in what is normally a pretty smooth and atmospheric song. I'm going to give this a try and hopefully salvage the track to a degree. It's heavy vinyl (probably a factor in my dropping it), so hopefully it isn't too hard to fix.
Lesson learned though, better to put a fingerprint on the record than handle it by the edges and lose my tenuous grip.
Dedicated tutor,Greatest achivement.
This was quite epic man...excited to try this...can you show us a video for us that do better seeing someone doing it.
Thank you forn the very informative and valuable information shared here. I appreciate the honesty - this kind of work is not for everyone! I just received my dads old vinyl collection that was not properly stored. Some are in better shape than others. But I appreciate the shred knowledge here on YT. I will not take a needle to any of those records - esp the 78s! thank you for sharing.
Ya Dude, this was an awesome video and gave me the courage to give it a shot. Excellent.
Great info. Smart, honest guy.
Thank you
Cool! Will definitely try this trick! Thanks Matt! 😄
Love this its great to understand what happens
Thank you😊👍
Amazing!! Thanks for the video!
Wow! That is incredible!
Spatula City!!! Yeah boy I'm 40 and I know where that came from🤣 Love and appreciate your helpful video man. Thanks 👍
Wow!! Like revelation straight from God!!! Love your demo with the cardboard.
Thanks!
Thanks for your solution. I just used a sharp wooden skewer on my recently bought second hand copy of exile on main street. It was stuck on the intro to sweet Virginia which was a real P*ss off. I found the scratch, rubbed the grooves and then gave it a clean, no more skip. Thanks mate !!!! Also Sam Cooke is well worth your effort, I play Sam all the time, he was a genius who died too young and not enough people know about him.
Agreed. When you say died too young you mean he was murdered too young, right?
@@spatulacityrecords6263 absolutely I mean that. It was an unfathomable loss just like Otis, Buddy, Lennon etc. I think he would have done some amazing stuff as the sixties progressed. Thanks again mate I was trying to reconcile skipping sweet Virginia from now on or spending 80 bucks on a new one but don't have to now👍
Nice fix on that lp. Sam Cooke thanks you! And deserves it. Great record.
Great insight, very creative
Thank you
great video, as a poor artist i buy a lot of second hand and cheap records so thjere are a few scratches, some real bad ones,so i will try this out and if it works i will be forever grateful....good on ya mate a very useful vid.
This video helped so much!!! Thank you so much!
Thank for bringing helpful tips,so I can save a couple of my fave/hot waxs 👍❤❤❤🎸🎸🎸🖖
Thanks for playing my favorite singer of ALL TIME, the late, great Sam Cooke! I have that album on CD.😀😀😀
Thank you so much. This is a great video.
Thanks for the TIP there Record Dude.
I still think it's amazing that vinyl records hold music down in the grooves, and a needle running over them will play the music. It almost doesn't make sense even though I understand how it works.
Great video thanks for sharing
Yes the information in this video is correct. I used to use Steel points years ago now I use a different material and a slightly different technique than described in this video. It can be tedious if you don't have the proper work environment. * incidentally I have fixed a 1st press Stereo Canadian pressing of Kind of Blue ;) hahah
Excellent cardboard demo on what’s happening at a micro level!
Thanx a lot pal...and yeah takes a lot of time patience and practice
Dude, the props department killed it with the cardboard set. Nicely done.
Question, do you “drag” the needle through at an angle or vertical?
I use a combo of drag and push. Always at an angle. Each record is different and sometimes you have to carefully cut a new groove. That is not for the faint of heart or jittery handed people. Usually, you just have to push the grooves back. I’ll let the prop department know their use of nickels worth of cardboard was not in vein.
Very good preface and practice. We never did this back in the day. Now it’s ear nirvana. We didn’t know and record quality was engineered to be obsolete with cd in the horizon. We all became fooled for the most part by convenience, portability ….the instant of it all. Now these old ears can listen to nothing but records, even noise and clicks is easier than the ice pick compressed digital signal regardless of the eq. Need to find a good dac I guess?Cheers!
I saw this dude in the thumbnail and i knew instantly he was the vinyl wizard
Thank you! I purchased an album on Discogs that I had wanted for 35 years (The Cure - Happily Ever After) and it had a pop on the first track from a very minor imperfection. I used a sharp bamboo skewer, being afraid to go full on needle, and it completely fixed the pop.
Best way to fix pops..must hace conical stylus first. Increase tracking force...spin reckord backwards over the pop a few times.
About locating the pop or stick on a record - I stand directly over the deck, look down on the record and get a fix on which part of the record label passes by when I hear the sound - the logo, the speed, the song list, whatever. 90% of the time I locate the place first go.
Awesome man great job!!
Thanks
Great video thanks!!!
The cardboard example was great!! I'm sure trying to move the groove is tedious work.
Nice. There is a reason that I closely inspect records when I am buying them. If I see a scratch, I don't purchase it, unless it is a must-have album. I worry about damage, or early wear, on my stylus. I will try this on some of my albums that have some pops and ticks. Thanks for the information.
Amazing video! Can you provide a link for the magnifying glass you use?
been looking for that dice forever
I've tried it with a match that I snapped to leave a jagged edge. Must have done more grooves than I needed to, but it worked.
I found a kiss love gun lp in an antique store. The vinyl itself looks pretty good but the very beginning of love gun there is about 2 or 3 skips. No scratch. So is it dirt. I have cleaned it with dawn in distilled water with a small amount of 91 isopropyl and sprayed it down and scrubbed with a soft bristle brush at least 3 times. I do think its getting better especially since I have a better player. I have some records with a lots of light scratches but they sound great especially after my method of washing. I want to add I’m not wet playing either.
Thank you man. I have plastic beach by the gorillaz on vinyl it’s my favorite vinyl and it skips ay the beginning. After crying for 15 min I decided to see if could fix it and you saved my night thanks.
Theres a guy here in Canada that fixes scratches with a microscope and a plastic razor blade. His work is unbelievable, he only works on very rare records and his service isnt cheap.
Ditto
Thats such a tune!
Thanks oh, you definitely are the final Yoda!
Now I need to get a Sam Cooke record to listen to that song, lol!
FIX YOUR RECORDS PEOPLE!
Thank You for this fantastic video.
This video is correct & accurate, anyone that says contrary is an ignorant shaky-handed dolt...tell them to get lost.
Ive resurrected many discs the same way. There are people that insist this cant be done, ignore them. Go Slow when evaluating & repairing, find your patience, take your time!
watching this reminds me why so many people switched to cds back in the day
.........and now of course many are switching back....
funny how most folks didn't really bother cleaning records too much in the old days when there was plenty of time compared to now !
People also didn’t spend $1,000 on a record back then or $10,000 on a stereo.
Now that I'm on the right stream. Is there anything you can do to for static on the lead in at the beginning. I noticed that quite a few of my older albums the lead is has a lot of scratches probably from dirty paper sleeves or, worse yet no sleeve at all. Would wet sanding with like 5000 grit polishing pads work?
Thank You.
Fantastic!!!!! Great information man!!!! Thank you!!!! Sam Cook is definitely worth it!!
My vinyl keeps skipping and it’s new but I don’t wanna try to fix it cuz I know I’m gonna mess it up even more 😭😭
If it's new then it's probably your record player, especially if you're using like a Crosley or Victrola portable one. Might also be just paper/dust; clean it with a brush and avoid heavy vibrations and you should be good to go!
Excellent !! Very valuable info for us Vinyl collectors. *what turntable are you using?
Who cares hunk! For your health!
Thanks, I'll try that.
I checked your website for your vinyl sales. Do you have a category of rare more expensive albums?
Mind blown!
I have the most annoying mini skip on an original mono sgt pepper but I'm going to try what you said with the magnifying glass cause I tried the toothpick and no luck. It almost looks and feels like a manufacturer defect tbh next time I will for sure use a needle.
I have a record scratch that looks more like a smudge than a scratch but i think its still a scratch is there a specific soloution for that?
I used to use this method in the beginning, which is great for viewing record damage (although I've damaged more than I've fixed), but I later found out that lightly rubbing a wooden toothpick along the grooves near the skip can achieve the same results without using a sharp tool.
I like sharp tools. I also run with scissors. Also, a toothpick is fairly useless against a 50s heavy weight vinyl or 80s hair metal that has teeny tiny grooves. I think I’ve damaged one record doing this but that was forever ago and I was still figuring it out. Thanks for watching the video!
@@spatulacityrecords6263 Actually, I first tested the toothpick method on garbage 50's/60's Goodwill records before I tried it on my Deep Purple first pressings. I've also found that the smaller the grooves (albums with TONS of tracks per side) , the better the toothpick method works because it frays into the grooves. Finer grooves have thinner walls which are easier to fix.
Enjoyed the video and have subscribed to your channel. Question. Where do you get the magnifying glass? What type of needle? Love the prop btw I want to try this technique.makes sense it would work.
Thanks
The magnifying glass I got on eBay. It was a 60x for an iPhone but almost any will work if it has a light. Just make sure the lens doesn’t have a plastic guard around it. Sometimes they won’t get close enough to the records. Try to find a jewelers loop with a light. The needle is just a thread sewing needle stick in a pencil eraser. I hear toothpicks work great because they’re al little more forgiving but I’ve never tried it
Any chance you could take a picture of the magnifying glass you have? I want to make sure I buy the right one.
@@bobmickiewicz I can’t post a pic in a reply. Just check eBay for 60x iPhone magnifier. The one I have is like that the one that is $19.99 in AU dollars. usually they’re about 5-10
For long scratches like that I use ice. A DJ told me once about it (urban legend goes it was an easier way to fix in the club with an ice cube from a cocktail lol). I've created a cheap silicon mold which I can make pointy pieces of ice. I just place the (CLEAN) record in an old turntable and I press firmly the ice about 1/8" away from the scratch and I move the record back and forth so slightly (like a DJ holding the track queue). You do need to work fast because it's ice (duh) and melts fast under friction. It doesn't work for certain harder vinyl records but when it does it's pretty amazing because it doesn't leave any extras marks at the scratched area. I'd say give a try in a cheap record and see if that works for you.
That's a stupid method. Use dry ice. Regular ice wets the record up. You have to wait for the record to dry. Dry ice go straight to the turntable.
This is a cool idea, Im going to try this thanks.
what type of magnifier with light do you use?
Thank you for this video I have a few record that pop in one place. Can you do a flatting slightly warped records video please?
That was next on my list. I’m waiting for the prop department to finish the rigs.
Can you recommend a magnifying lens please?
That record sounds amazing. Never heard of Sam Cook, will check it out! I totally want to try this, any suggestions on what magnifier to buy? I have a $5ish record that gets stuck in one spot, figured it's a good one to try and fix. Seen lots of copies local too in case I mess it up lol
First, please, go listen to more Sam Cooke and read his story. We were robbed of a society of his music. The magnifiers I use were originally part of a microscope iPhone case that I pulled of the frame. You can find them pretty easily. You want a 60x loop with light. I buy them for around $5 on eBay.
@@spatulacityrecords6263I have a magnifier that's about 4" in diameter I use for coins, and was surprised it was enough magnification. That and a headlamp was enough.. Can see where it is on the record-it almost looks like something is embedded in the record? When that record played I knew it was something special, definitely gonna read up on (and listen) to Sam Cooke. Was that turntable a Technics?
Can you post a link to that small handheld magnifier with the two types of lights?
i found the exact same one on EBAY for $3 years ago. www.ebay.com/itm/172331808861?hash=item281fc6b85d:g:U38AAOSwGtRXzj7P
After the scratch is repaired can you polish the scratch so it doesn't look like crap? Or, is that a waste of time?
Great demo thanks! Can you please say what kind of needle you’re using, sewing, gramophone? Only my favorite 78’s have scratches, a couple of breaks too. I’d like to try resurrecting them.
Thank you. I use a sewing needle but I use several sizes. They all work the same.
Innerspace, represent!
I'm just going to use your technique. I bought a vinyl that's pretty pricy (at best 40 bucks plus the UK shipping) and on the _first day,_ it got a deep scratch. I can live with the popping but at best maybe 30 seconds of the song skip. It's frustrating.
Hello .. (sorry for my english) personally I use a pointed toothpick, less aggressive .. I noticed that the more the scratch is parallel to the microgrooves, the more difficult it is to have a result ..
Would be helpful to know what magnifying glass you used. I looked online and did not see one that looked like the one you showed briefly.
I talk about it in my later video. It has no name brand. It’s a 60x loop for an iPhone attachement. I get them from China on eBay for about $5. Batteries too
I take it you watched Weird Al's UHF. It's a favorite of mine!
@Spatula City Records - what is the magnification strength of the pocket microscope you hold up in front of the camera at the beginning of the video? 20X, 40X, 60X 120X? Trying to get an handle on the optimum magnification of the grooves to coordinate a toothpick or needle in my hand.
Damn I’m way behind on these comments, sorry! I use a 60 and a 100x loop
An electron microscope would be the best choice.
VERY cool illustration with the cardboard! Subscribed after one video. By the way, I watched this video backward and Sam Cooke became a ...pop... artist BA-DUM---ugh ;)
8:03 You can find scratches at 33 rpm easy
Replay the section you heard the pop
This time watch the label as it spins
take note of which orientation the label is at when you hear the pop
stop the turntable
manually reverse the record back to approximately where heard the pop based on the label orientation
listen closely & you'll be able to pinpoint precisely
You have to have a turntable that will do that.
Hey, I'm new in the record collecting game. I have a skip on my record in one song and I'm afraid to fix it my self. It's a newly printed record from Guardias of the galaxy and it has 6 songs per side. Can it be fixed? Or do I have to suffer the rest of my life with a scratched record? Please help. I need advise.
It would be impossible for me to answer that without seeing it. Look at the area where is skips. It may just have something lodged in it that will pop out. You may also just have a cheap turntable or it needs the weights adjusted.
What about records from the late 2000s? I have one that I'm trying to fix. It's a favorite of mine.
Can you share some details about your magnifier? How strong is it? Where did you get it? Where can I find one like it?
In another comment he mentions it's a 60X from ebay for an iphone.
Great information.
Does anyone know if this will work with a scratch that is not transverse/across the grooves but more of a “slightly angled”/parallel to the groove type of scratch? I have a record that has about a inch long scratch on one song that is causing a skip-back. The scratch goes mostly parallel to the grooves.
Yes. This works for those scratches as well, it is usually harder to do, but it can be done. You have to work backwards or in reverse of the scratch and gently clean the groove out and realign the walls of the groove. Good luck!
What if I find the Kind of Blue record in a Thrift store?
What about a graze when the damage is white
Thank you so much! Can you share the model (or a reference model) of your magnifier?
There is no model number. It’s actually an old microscope attachment for an iPhone. Generally, you want a 60x or better with a light,
@@spatulacityrecords6263 Thanks!
Can you tell us more about the tool that you use the make the repair other that a toothpick?
I don’t use a toothpick. I’ve seen people use toothpicks, ice, and all sorts of things. I use a sewing needle with the eye shoved in the eraser of a pencil. I have 4 or 5 different needles that I use that have varying sharpness.
Funny you should mention that. Luckily/or unluckily, depending on how you see it, my cat thought it might be fun to attack this spinning black thing which was on the turntable. He only mangled the first 1/2" but that's enough to ruin it's pleasure and value. Because of that I am going to watch your video. However I should say at the start, if there is no way of doing it I shall not blame you or curse the cat. He was a good rub-header, and a good purrer...long deceased, and now in a shoe box in the garden, may The-Great-Fairy-in-the-Sky bless his whiskers.
Should be fixable. I will say many people prefer a toothpick because it’s more forgiving than a metal needle, I find it to be much more tedious. It takes time
Where do you get the magnifying glass light ?
I get them from eBay. They’re actually made with an iPhone case attachment so you can take micro pics with your phone. They’re pretty cheap.
Hi!!! On my opinion a metal needle is no the correct tool for that pourpose, cose you'll to cause more damage on the groove. Normally I use a graphite from an automatic pencil 0.5mm. this material is strong to do that work but gentle to do not damage the groove... Sorry for my very bad english.
As I said in the us video or one of the other ones i did. There are different tools. Some records are damaged to the point that you need to ‘regroove’ the record. And you aren’t going to do that with a graphite stick. I prefer a needle. I have a steady hand and am very good at it. You use whatever works for you.
Hey man, I must say you really seem to know your shit. I thought I heard you say you use an ultrasonic record cleaner. May I ask what kind? I can’t justify the $3k for the Degritter. Looking at the Kirmuss. Any thoughts? Thanks and keep the informative vids coming!
I have a cheap Chinese one I got on eBay for about $400 and an ultrasonic for a grand. I ship out about 20-100 records a day so it was worth the investment. The attachment on that $3k model is stupid Imo. It’s just a drying lid.
@@spatulacityrecords6263 Cool. Thanks SCR!