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Record cleaning vs Last Record Preservative

I recently purchased a record cleaning machine and am frustrated. Am using RRL super cleaner and regular fluid, and I am finding that my records are sounding noisier. What is going on here? Will the Last preservative fill in any little pits and scratches and reduce surface noise? Or will the needle eventually just clean the rest of the junk out of the groove with play? I am using new clean brushes and such. On used records, I have been cleaning three times and vacumning with the super cleaner, then repeating with 3 rinses with regular cleaner and vacumn.

Thanks!

R.
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The machine is a manual Nitty Gritty. I turn the records by hand. I replaced the felt pad at the vacumn suction slot, and I am using Last disposable brushes and a Nitty Gritty brush. I have cleaned about 50 LPs is all. Maybe time to start using Last disposable brushes and pitching every ten records or so. A new one every record would be a real expense drag. I have been scrubbing the records back and forth manually with the grooves, and then using the machine to vacumn each time. Three washes with the Super Cleaner formula and vacumn each time between washes, and then same three cycles for Regular RRL fluid. Usually spin the record 4 times or so on the vacumn.

I read the response from Davehrab and the link above. Interesting. I may try this new cleaner. Seems to make sense to me. Anyone else tried Vinyl Zyme Gold???

R.
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