In the 60's and 70's in college, the thing to do was to scotch tape a penny to the top of the headshell. I guess we don't do that anymore...
On a somewhat more serious note, I presume you've washed your records.
On a definitely more serious note, make sure your cartridge is aligned properly and the tracking weight is what the manufacturer of the arm or cartridge suggests. Beyond that I don't know if there is too much you can do. If you put enough weight on the headshell that surface noise is damped, you're also damping a lot of the other vibrational information in the record groove. You'll be significantly downgrading the performance of the table. Unfortunately, vinyl lovers have to put up with a bit of surface noise unless you want to replace the record with a new one, or a CD.
On a somewhat more serious note, I presume you've washed your records.
On a definitely more serious note, make sure your cartridge is aligned properly and the tracking weight is what the manufacturer of the arm or cartridge suggests. Beyond that I don't know if there is too much you can do. If you put enough weight on the headshell that surface noise is damped, you're also damping a lot of the other vibrational information in the record groove. You'll be significantly downgrading the performance of the table. Unfortunately, vinyl lovers have to put up with a bit of surface noise unless you want to replace the record with a new one, or a CD.