Episode 55 - Things We Love Part 1 - The Women in Vinyl Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to the Women in Vinyl Podcast with Jen du Genio,
founder of Women in Vinyl, and contributor Robin Raymond.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
This podcast facilitates conversations with those working in the vinyl
record industry to educate, demystify, and diversify the vinyl community.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Will get me wrong because I'm fine.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
This a terry fish with a little streak of kindness.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
You're friends with me? Then you know this sea out
a roll and focus how Gus Howcus, how is man
maun T shame bund.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Finds to my mom normal good add to the high school.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Because I thought I wasn't crazy.

Speaker 7 (01:30):
New York City said.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
Thank you for joining us on episode fifty five of
the Women in Vinyl Podcast. You just heard part of
the single Fishy that just came out earlier this month
by m Jennifer, a punk tinged indie rock duo based
in New York City. Find the single and more brought
to you by our current indie label partner, Final Girl Records,
a Brooklyn and LA based indie label and collectives supporting women,

(02:00):
trans and non binary artists. Find more at www dot
finalgirl records dot com. We get asked all the time
about our favorite products. So on this episode, Robin and
I return to our turntables to unwrap, use, discuss, and
share some of our favorite things, and for the first time,
have a video component. So if you want to watch

(02:21):
we'll wait, go to YouTube and check out our channel.
Ahead of the holiday season, we thought it was perfect timing,
So join us for part one as we dive into
record care and cleaning, kits, inner sleeves, polybags, and some
weird things you can find on the interwebs. Part two
will be all about some more techie stuff, headphones and more.

(02:42):
Enjoy the episode.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's official, it's official, We're actually doing it. We're on
We're live. But in the videos now, oh my god?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
How for sure? It's so much pressure when we're going
to talk about things and stuff. We've been wanting to
make this one for a while, so I think it'll
be fun.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, everybody likes gadgets and gizmos. I mean that's part
of the joy of collecting. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I never want to ask us, like what we like?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, what do you like? What kind of short table
should I buy? I don't know what do you want
to buy? What's your budget? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:31):
What's your end goal? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Are you going to move a bunch? How many records
do you want to thrash or a little bit? Do
you want to keep buying them? Great? Thanks for keeping
us in business. Love you.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
So a big box showed up on Robin's door.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
It sure did. Oh my god, I like, is she influenced?

Speaker 8 (03:55):
Soon?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Now? I think she is, but like just hand influencer.
That's fine with me. But yeah, like this, Oh my god,
so with my address? But yes, that that's all this.
It's just I itemized. I love the itemized alphabetize lists

(04:17):
because we know the gen is a lot of things.
She's very organized, not like the trash panda that she
keeps doing this podcast with. But that's why we get
to work so well. I think, yeah, box, you packed
me in a very nice box. I mean I tried

(04:37):
to repack it as nicely as you packed it. There's
no hope of that ever happening. So it's just been
kind of.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Spatial awareness is like my superpower. I always say, like
I know how things fit.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
I mean, I'm good Jenga, but not like three dimensional Jenga. Yeah,
you know, Jenka's just like is it onedy too?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Like Tetris?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I can stack things on top of each other. Yeah,
oh yeah, that's what I'm a mortal at me, I'm
a gamer. Yes, I'm wicked. I'm wicked gott tetris, i
am ship at Jenga. Yes, I can't. I can't push
a block in, I can't take a block out. I
can't stack it on top of each other. Once the

(05:27):
box is open, there's no prayer of getting it back
into the teeny tiny box that it was prepared in.
But now we just get to take it all out
and never put it back in and actually like file
it away in my continued unorganized record collection.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well, and so I figured a good place to start
was with cleaning, you know, general upkeep of our records.
So we wanted to show different price points, So we
figured cleaning was a good place to start, and general
record upkeep. So we have a bunch of things here

(06:06):
and we'll get into more technical stuff next time, including
Robin playing with a at home final cutter, which is
gonna be amazing content.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
It's just it's so meta. It's what I do now.
It's just manaturized, and that.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Is great, all right. So we wanted to show different
price points because not everybody has a million dollars. Yes, yes,
so the anti static record stuff start this, okay, I

(06:49):
mean is.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
This where we do the like ASMR kind of uh
nails on the boxing too, because I feel like that's
I feel like that's what people want, all right, So
here we go. Ooh anti static record brush. This is
care over Bud's at audio Quest. So yeah, there's like

(07:15):
a few hot takes on how to use brushes. I'm
of the opinion that you don't use the brush while
the record is turning, because that seems wild to me.
I don't know what your thoughts are.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
When I am cleaning them with like a liquid cleaner,
I do turn it. My hands are very small, so
it's hard for me to hold the record and clean it.
I mean, obviously, you know, shout out to VPI for
the big, massive vacuum cleaner that we all aspire to own.
But yes, well, and I think it'll be interesting too

(07:56):
because like, do you use anti static brush as much.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I mean for personal collection? Yes, I mean static is
a whole another animal when it comes to like making records,
because that's like a thing that we always talk about
in our forums and our dms to each other in
the record cutting community. Where we're like rah, static rat

(08:24):
and we're getting to that point in the year again
where static becomes the thing because in Canada there's no humidity,
so then static becomes a whole nother thing. So between
cleaning and anti static brush. I mean, I do have
one of these in my collection and I've used it

(08:47):
a handful of times. It's a nice little like I
like to call this like a precision brush because you
can be like whoop, whoop, you know, when you see
something quickly on that turntable, you can like stop a record,
give it a little wipe, which like another one of
our little to one of our sponsors that are folks
at groove Washer, that's a little bit more intensive. So

(09:10):
like this one's like a little bit of a like,
oh there's a little bit of that, yeah, exactly. So
I like to use this one as like while you're
playing kind of thing, but never like dragging it along
the surface while the record is playing. That just like
gives me shivers.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
But.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Exactly. And it's conductive fibers and and it retails for
sixteen ninety five, so definitely affordable. They say, they say
that their instructions are placed the record on the platter,
Start the turntable, holding the brush's body, gently place the
fibers across the grooves without without bending the fibers, Let

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the record turn a few times, gather the dust. Rotate
your wrist and brush counterclockwise, m.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
Boom with a flick.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, yes, because the brush is better at gathering dust
than holding dust, so you may have to repeat three
to four times.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
And then you're not supposed to touch the fibers because you're
a greasy little animal and you'll negate all of the
ability of your brush to actually gather things.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
So no touchy yes. And for the people who aren't watching,
it's like the size of a harmonica, so yes, not
too bad.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, and then it kind of looks like one too,
stainless steel, it looks like on the outside. But yeah,
it's it's cute. It work well when you need them too,
I think in my.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Opinion, Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 3 (10:56):
I mean the adio the audio quest guys say you
you know, YAHM, turn your record player on and let
it let it buck, and I say, don't do that,
but that is my personal opinion.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, and then the next step up is the vinyl.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Style one mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
This one's bigger, more like a hair brush size, and that's.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Kind of what I thought it was, or like uh
one of the like foot scraper, pedicure, pumice stone things.
I was like right now, but again, we'll do the
This is the vinyl style conductive anti static record cleaning
brush sound solutions for the modern era. M hmm.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
I mean that's great.

Speaker 9 (11:53):
That.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh yeah, this what you don't have to like get
you know, further in oh ah wow, okay, so yeah
that's cool, very much like yeah, like I hear a brush.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
So this one says, while holding your thumb or finger
on the handle's silver area, apply the brush to the
rotating vinyl record and continue with gentle pressure as you
wipe towards the edge and off the vinyl. When done,
remove dust from bristles with a cleaning cloth. Avoid touching bristles.
We'll transfer oil. Do not use record cleaning fluid with

(12:33):
this brush.

Speaker 7 (12:38):
Yeah, so again you want to I mean, let's see
if I can see if I can orient my camera
and you can you can see can you see my
trin table?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yes? Okay, so like des.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Yes, And then they have this little silver bit which
I'm assuming is to help with additional static.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, I guess grounding maybe. Yeah, so that's cute. But yeah, again,
don't touch the bristles.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Similar to the last one.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, similar to the last one. But you can also, uh,
you know, you don't have to get up as close
and personal with your record as well. So I mean,
if you're actually enjoying your record, you can be a
little bit farther away from it.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
You could always i mean, depending on your type of
turntable too, you could always move it with your hand.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean at the record store, what
we would do is we would put down a microfibercloth
and then we would put the record on the microfibercloth,
and then we would clean it like that way when
we actually get into like spray town.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Sure, yeah, so you have to do that. Yeah, And
the vinyl style one again is nineteen ninety nine retail,
so just a little bit more than the other one,
which I think makes sense for its size.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Extra plastic yeah yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
So the next thing is interesting, and I'm not sure
how many people have actually used one mm hmm, the
zero stat the static gun, the pistol.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
That neutralizes static. I mean anytime there's like a gun
shaped anything. I was like, do a James Bond post?
So I mean it's going to happen.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
So I haven't opened mine because I have never actually
owned one of these before. So hold the milty zero
STAT about three hundred millimeters. I wish it wasn't on
the box, gen so that I could ask you what
you think. Three hundred millimeters is approximately twelve inches away
from the object. So you can to static anything, not

(15:01):
just records. You know you have a cat. That's a
problem anti static.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Your cat aw.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Squeeze the trigger slowly, A powerful stream of positive ions
project over a spread of about four hundred milimeters or
sixteen inches. Release it slowly, and negative ions are produced.
Zero STAT lasts for at least fifty thousand trigger operations
and requires no power, supply, battery, or refill. I'm curious

(15:34):
now that God, Now that we've got a number on here,
does it tell you? Is there like a counter? Does
it say like you've squeezed this sixteen times?

Speaker 4 (15:46):
So I am on the fence with this guy. We'll
see what happens when we use it. Here. We had
one of these when I worked at Furnace, and I'm
always just kind of skeptical about it.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
It just seems I mean, yeah, there are a lot
of people in the record cutting community that also swear
by them for the aforementioned static battles with lafe cutters.
So it's I mean, I'm very staticy currently. Uh, let
me let me try it out. Let me let me

(16:23):
the plastic. I think I'm going to see it.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
Also says I don't think you can see, but caution,
keep out of reach of children.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Oh yeah, they're just gonna anti stack everything in your house.
They're just gonna you're going to use up all of
your fifty thousand in like one day. Well, there's no
other real directions. Where does this little tip thing? Though?
So when you open it, it comes in like this
little box and then it's got this little tip. Doo, dad,

(16:52):
where does the tip go?

Speaker 4 (16:54):
And for people that aren't watching, it is a blue
gun kind of like a glue gun, and it's and
it has a black trigger and a little black nozzles.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
No, you don't get to burn yourself on this one.
So there's that's nice.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Let's feel very Oh that's four four hundred and ninety
seven thousand zaps left.

Speaker 10 (17:29):
Yeah, so I wish I had a I wish I
had a balloon for like, thank god. So I'm trying
my chair is I'm creating so much static right now?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Okay, it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
No, it's more staticky in Canada versus the humid Austin,
so Robin is making static.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I'm trying to Oh wait, these are staticky. Hang on,
you got sleeves. Sleeves are always static.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Ooh yes, oh yeah, okay, let's right. Wait, move your
camera down.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh right, yeah see yes, okay, I mean, do you
see the positive ions here? We go?

Speaker 4 (18:21):
Whoa?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I mean, I feel like.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
If we had a video editor, we need someone to
insert little like electric bolts.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I think we can find that. I mean when I
picked them up, they were like really sticky together, and
now they are not.

Speaker 4 (18:45):
Okay, so.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yes works.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
So like I said, I don't know, maybe. But the
reason why I have never owned one of these until
we decided to do this because this is ninety nine
dollars so retails for almost one hundred bucks.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
That's USD too.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah. I feel like we'll need to use it a
little bit more. Maybe next maybe for part two we'll
tell you if we've used it more and have different results,
but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
So that's like five five dollars a squeeze you get like.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
So yeah, I don't know, Okay nulty, all right, cool,
well you know not a sponsor so.

Speaker 11 (19:46):
Uh but uh.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Wildly in the record people community community, so like there's
a lot of people that have these. I mean, this
is the first time that we get to to say it.
But like tell us in the comments whether you have
it ilty and whether you like it? Letting you know
if you've ever replaced it? Do you think you've hit

(20:10):
fifty thousand squeezes? How often do you use it? Because
you know, if it's uh, can you get it recharged?
Because it doesn't have a power spy? So do you
just have to buy anyone? Because I mean like a
genius for them?

Speaker 4 (20:27):
What well? And how do you use it? Like what
do you use it on? Mostly? Is it always on
your records?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah? Do you do use it? Do you do it
on your laundry?

Speaker 4 (20:44):
I'm still like waiting to hear people's stories of children
and why we need to keep it away from them.
Are they zapping? What are they zapping? So next we've
moved on to some style is cleaner.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
H something that I use all the time. Actually, okay,
that's the Is that the zero dust one?

Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Ah mm hmmmm for the turn table. There's so many
I can't tell you, guys how this this box is
just wow, it's so wild, it's pretty wild.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Okay, wait is it this guy?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Okay, let's do that one. Uh huh. Turntable lab. We
love the turntable lab, great content on the instagrams and
the internets. So this one also anti.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, and it's for your stylists and it can be
used dry or wet, which will segue nicely into our
wet cleaning bit. Yeah, it's eleven ninety five. Totally affordable.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
You know.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
I think these are definitely, like this and the next
one that we're going to talk about, are definitely worth
the small amount that they cost. So many people in
my world.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
That are like STYLI specifically is that. Yeah. I mean
you can clean them and keep them in good shape,
and then you know, you still need to change those
bad boys every now and again, unless you're my mom
and you take the headshell and everything onto your turntable
and leave it like that for thirty five years.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Then and that's not been changed.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Right.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
You said that you haven't changed that.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, no I haven't. Yeah no, we tried to change it,
but the actually just like came off, so it was
structural at this point. So now I need I'm on
the hunt for parts for my duel from Germany. But
it's all good. So yeah, so you can leave this
dry or you can apply style is cleaner. You're supposed

(23:18):
to brush in one direction only back to front, in
a straight line, so opposite of wiping your bum, and
then you're supposed to times, but don't brush in front
to back, so you just kind of.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Go yeah, And there's a little graphic here if you
can see Robin's lighting might be better, but yeah it
has a yeah, a check mark and an X. And
in my world of record pressing, when people are listening
to their turn to their test pressings, I think that

(23:53):
this is something that everyone should have because a lot
of times when people are concerned about a tick or
pop or issue that they think they hear on one
and not all of their test pressings, it's probably dust
or a dirty stylus.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, a dirty or worn out stylus needs
to be changed.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, monsters like me, Yeah, super small cute and these
for people not watching are like, uh, they're like a
little lasser size.

Speaker 8 (24:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
I was just gonna say they're like a like a
little floster size, a little bit bigger, and then they
it looks like it's like a little blunt plastic end,
but it's not. It's made of thousands of bristles. I mean,
it doesn't say to not touch this one, so like
I kind of want to touch. Oh yeah, there we go.
Oh ah yeah, so I mean that's pretty cute.

Speaker 12 (24:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
I definitely think this one's worth it. I would put
this on the on the buy it list, I would.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yes, yes, worth it, great price point, nice. Also little
gift for somebody in your record collecting life if they're
you know, it's it's never going to be something that
will be a bad purchase for anybody that might blow
their home be like, oh my god, my record sound amazing.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
Now the next one is this on zo.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Oh ah? This is the Little Guy. Yes, yeah, the
zero Dust Love. Yes.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
So you still have the packaging for this one?

Speaker 7 (25:38):
What does it say the cartridge is becoming more precious
to the LP record fan safety and perfect only one touch.
I mean, okay, so you're supposed to leave this, don't
leave the container in a place er direct sunshine to

(26:00):
avoid an accident from its convex lens behavior. So it
does have like a magnifier kind of situation on the
top of it. So if you leave it in the sun,
it's going to dry out, so you definitely don't want
to do that.

Speaker 3 (26:13):
It also says do not allow an infant to put
the cleaning element into the mouth, lead it into place
not accessible by children.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
So another not safe for kids.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Made by our good buds in Japan.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yes, so instead of not safe for work, we should
start a NS Okay, not safe kids and say, yeah,
I feel like that suits us.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
These are actually yeah, you're a childish cat lady. I'm
just like a childless lady. It's great. So yeah. The
phonograph record is charged with static electricity at a key
relative rate while it is played. The charged record continually
absorbs dust in the air. As the frictional pressure between

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a groove and a stylus tip during a plate during
playing a record is exceedingly high, the micro dust in
a groove sticks to the stylus point in compressed condition. Thus,
the micro dust contamination of the stylus tip is accelerated
through playing a record, so as we know, I mean,
especially if you have your windows open, you're gonna get dust.

(27:31):
Oh yeah, oh.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
Yeah, so yeah, there's a there's like a magnified top
if anybody is listening and not watching, and then like
a jelly kind of blob on the other side.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
And so yeah, so the the magnifiers so that you
can watch your delicate little pause. Put a stylus on
the cleaning job.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Let's see.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
I've got another little Stanton stylist here that's in that's
a little bit deconstructed so that we could see like
the shaft and the so I mean like when people
are like, oh I would I have a change that, like,

(28:23):
come on this really? So I don't know if you
can see j Should I go closer? Is that better? Yeah?
So yeah type there. So then all you're gonna do
is just like that and then let her go. But

(28:44):
that's it because it's called the one touch. Yeah, you
do it once and that's great.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Does it say how long it lasts?

Speaker 3 (28:56):
No, No it doesn't.

Speaker 13 (28:58):
But from what I have read is that as you
use it, and if you don't keep putting the case
back together, it's going to dry out.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
So if it looks like it's not as blobby, then
that's when it's not gonna work is good. So I
think you can kind of judge that to see whether
it's like cleaning still or not. And then.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah, and so you can get these through Turntable Lab.
They are thirty nine dollars so they're not as cheap,
but I definitely think it's an easy thing to use, so.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
And worth there. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:43):
Yeah, So getting into some of the wet options. Now
we have the Audio technical out yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Oh yeah, yeah, our buds at Audio Technica.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Everything is so bleached out on my side. But solution
pad and storage base included. MM scientific record formula gently
removes micro dust and other contaminants, dissolves fingerprints, and eliminates
static electricity. Velvet brush pad reaches into grooves, inner reservoir

(30:30):
directs eighty six three five A record Care solution into
brushes pad leading edge. Okay, so these.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I'm going to grab a record one sec.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
These are about twenty nine ninety nine Will Robin's grabbing
a record. The instructions are a little more intense, honestly,
especially when we talk about groove washer next. It's just
a little bit easier process, but I haven't used this yet,
and it's, uh, kind of the instructions kind of remind

(31:06):
me of a COVID test.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
So well, I mean it's science. They lead with science,
so I mean maybe they're.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
Or science y.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
So you're like changing out the lid on on the
liquid first, and then you're dispensing one pre measured four
milliliter unit of the solution into two small filler holes
on the top of the sonic brushpad.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I mean, I'm going to guess that this like also
for like Newish Queenish records already, because you know, sometimes
things need a little bit more. So the record that
we're going to be looking at today is very nice.
They want to be classics from twenty seventeen. I believe

(31:58):
that was released.

Speaker 4 (31:59):
Great record, he.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Really great record.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh this is also n S s K.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Don't feed it to.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Kids, masting fabric and other surfaces.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Okay, so can you okay, can you see what else?

Speaker 6 (32:22):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Okay, all right, so let's walk me through this again because.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
Okay, so we have to change out the.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Top open okay, right, we have a thing.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
Our liquid yep okay, oh maybe okay, Oh gosh, so
many pieces. There's an inner lid beneath the cap for
secure shipping. We need to remove that, which I can't
seem to do.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Oh, I was like where see okah, oh ah ah.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
I have the sharp thing somewhere. Oh here it is.
Don't try this to home kids, especially kids, but your
parents could, I guess. Don't drink this fluid so awesome. Yeah,
you gotta kind of wedge something underneath it.

Speaker 12 (33:31):
And then.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Then we put the cat back on, open the nozzle, yep.
And then we have our brush. Yeah okay, and in
the dispense, one pre measured four million unit of the

(33:54):
solution into two small filler holes on the brush.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
So pre measure.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I mean again, is it not like a COVID test?

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah, a little bit. I mean I don't know how
the pre measured thing marks.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Neither. I just put some drops, a couple of drops
in each one.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
See, okay, you're dividing that evenly between the holes.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Yeah wait, oh okay, So you go to like the
first unit. That seems like a lot, but yeah, there's
a lot. So those are the little dots on the side.
So it's like a grat going back to science days,
this is like a graduated sil so all these little hashtag,

(34:58):
these little market dues on the side of this bottle.
So you're gonna like put but like there's so much
surface tension that when you put it.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
In, yeah, it's like not really going in.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah. So this is like, I mean, the quality of
the product is really nice, but I feel like it's
going to take more time than you potentially wanted to. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
I mean I feel like if I was if I
was going to go listen to a record, this is
a bit much to like get started.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
Yeah, because yeah, like the flood isn't going.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
H the fluid isn't like going down into the brush.
It's like staying like there's still like there's a meniscus
where the fluid is the holes. So it's not like soaking.
Oh one side is it's not soaking into the brush yet,
and so my brush is still really dry.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Yeah, it's saying that we have to wait five minutes.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Oh god, Okay, well let's let this marinate. I guess
is the actual word that is proper scenario, and we'll
come back.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
You will come back five minutes, all right, Setting that
to the side, and in the meantime, I mean, we'll
grab groove washer.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah are buds.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
So shameless plug? Do you have one?

Speaker 6 (36:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yes, it's just not down here. Give me one minute.
I'm going to go run up stairs cool sing a
sassy thung.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
So while she's grabbing that shameless plug. Here that we
have a custom Women in Vinyl a day. They recently
updated to these amazing boxes, which is part of why
they are a little bit more expensive. They are forty
four ninety five. They're all made in the US. I'm
sure when Robin comes back we'll talk about this more.
But like love this product. The Women in Vinyl specific

(37:20):
one actually has like our logo on the handle, which
is awesome. It's an all walnut handle. Yeah, high quality product.
So the the audio technical one that we were just
using is twenty nine to ninety nine and these are
forty four ninety five. But if you buy it through

(37:43):
Women in Vinyl we get money back.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
Yeah. So this is my very high tech record cleaning
kittle thing. See Wayne Gretzky lunchbox. Yes, very Canadian.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Okay, I love that. I have a Misfits lunch box
that I carry.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Yeah, I love that too. So here's the wood handle,
beautiful microfibery, delightful made in the good old US A.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yes, and yeah. The instructions are so simple that there's
two pictures.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, it comes with a label uh protector.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Which is amazing.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
M Yeah, I get decrease your amount of bearer here
we go. Yeah. Ah, look at how easy even a
child could do it. I mean that's the way that
I like to do it.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Yeah, how about you, Jen, Yeah, you know I do
the branding record so right, it's not yeah, so yeah,
I do. Let mine kind of set while the platter
rotates and then you have that little bit at the
end and you're just like woop.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Woop.

Speaker 13 (39:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
So they come package is so nice. I mean, honestly,
it's so easy.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
You know.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
I love audio technica, but I feel like the complexity
of this other one is just kind of crazy. I
don't know, maybe that's just me.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
Well, I mean it's it's a little bit much, to
be honest. And I mean no no label protector. I mean,
I guess there's no fluid to be like, uh sploshed around.
So that's fine, but I mean, let's let's let's check
on it. Oh, I mean like it. Yeah, I mean

(39:52):
I still got fluid in the top and I'm nowhere
near the first hash tag mark.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
We're not even close to getting to our pre measured
measurement of science fluid. So here we go. Okay, yeah,
because it's like all over the top, like it's not
sinking down.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Yeah. So yeah, like with the groove washer, it's the
walnut handle, rubbed and oil. You can buy parts to
like refill if you need, so you're not having to
buy this over and over again. So yeah, that's.

Speaker 3 (40:45):
Here's the original bottles. Here's the like the little one
that you can that you also get to. You get
a Sprain nonzle with the giant ones too, and yeah,
I mean you can also help your girls out, help
your favorite cause give us your money, thank you.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
So I think I think my audio technica is getting
kind of damp.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Okay, so who did you put a lot? Were you
able to get more in?

Speaker 4 (41:20):
I did get to the first little mark, oh wow,
but I mean.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
It's definitely I don't know if you can you can
you see that? But it's like.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Yeah, so yeah yeah. So once the velvet is moistened though,
with the records spinning on the turntable, gently wipe the
record so that the arrow on the side of the
sonic boom is pointing in the direction shown. Okay, so
there's like an arrow. Yeah, your camera is not as

(41:58):
blown out. Yeah yes, yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
So it comes with like that a little cradle too.
M h you can in there, so it's for mine,
just a kind of resting. I mean this, I guess
this is like maybe a sticky strip, so you can
like stick it somewhere because there's a thing on the base.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
Well yeah, because then it says use the blue wiper
on the storage base to remove dust from the brush pad,
so like this little bit. Okay, so like that, so
that's kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Yeah, oh over the top of my same.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
Rush because it hasn't like okay, all right, well so
my hands are wet the velvets.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
So yeah, I don't know. I mean, try it out
to if you like it.

Speaker 10 (43:08):
Yeah, if you if you're going to take some time
to clean your records, you know, you could like.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Try to start putting your food in, go have a
cup of coffee and then come back. I guess.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Maybe listen, maybe listen to a record and it's Fittality.
At least.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
One of our board members, Jackie swears but swears by
the vinyl style. So I just have one here to
show people if you're interested in checking this one out.
It has kind of everything that we've talked about. So
it has the anti static brush, the little style is
anti static cleaner, deep cleaning pad, everything. So this one

(43:54):
you also put the cleaner in the brush pad. But
if anybody's interested in that, check it out. Just happened
to have one.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
What did and what is that one retail fortune?

Speaker 4 (44:09):
You know, let me see. I feel like that one
was kind of in the middle. You know, I'll have
to check while we are looking at that though. Yeah,
we can jump into the what looks like a record steamroller.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Yeah, this one's I mean, this one intrigued me. Ah,
the turntable. Yeah, this reminds me of I mean, I
was trying to figure out what the what the infomercial was,
but there's like an infomercial for something like this, yeah,

(44:54):
and I and I was I was like, oh, I
mean one percent that would work on a record because
it's like, yeah, it's just like a sticky roller. Yeah,
not like a lynch roller, but like a sticky one.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
And they used it for can hair and stuff like
I can't I can't.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Remember for the life it was called So the vinyl
style one that that we just talked about. The vinyl
style one is about twenty nine five. But so what
we are talking about if you are listening, is what

(45:34):
literally looks like, uh you were like pounding cement down,
like flattening or right.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Well, yeah, it's like a it's like a handheld rolling
pin but like sticky.

Speaker 8 (45:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (45:52):
Yeah, and so so the turntable lab has it's a
triple operation brush and record roller bundle. So this one
it is it's like a like a lint roller, like
Robin said, and it you just roll it over the

(46:14):
record and it gets off dust.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
Let's see, I mean it works.

Speaker 4 (46:30):
So the instructions for this one are place record on
your turntable, press roller on the records, and roll following
the direction of the grooves complete two to three rotation.
Due to the roller's large surface area, you can clean
several records before needing to clean the roller. To clean,
use warm water, dry completely, save the plastic insert as

(46:50):
a holder. So I actually love the next one that
we're going to talk about, which is the Big fun
which is the small version of this. Yeah, I think
they're great personally. I find it to be the easiest

(47:12):
way to clean.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah. I mean it works like a charm, like. It's
kind of satisfying. I really like I like the like
the noise too, that's fun.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
Yeah, I feel like it really gets in there and
gets it.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Yeah. So then when you have sufficiently cleaned your record,
I mean, depending again on how dirty records are, then
you just want to wash this but just with warm water,
not with any kind of like a soap or anything,
because that'll take like the sticky factor off of it.
So just rinse it with warm water and then leave

(47:49):
it to dry. And then I mean I would always
recommend like putting this thing back on just to saint
and then putting it back in its little like plastic carriage.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Yeah. See how easy it seems weird to like wet
it with water, but it it does bounce right back
to being sticky once it's dry.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Yeah, I mean, anybody that has like a any of
our are crafting buds out there. See, that's why that's
why I don't do things over top of my records,
because they just dropped this whole package on this poor
copy of Magma. Yeah record crimes. Yeah, I look at

(48:35):
that totally scratched. I mean I have I do have
some copies of this record. This one was used for
demonstration purposes only, so sorry, go your I love you still,
it wasn't intentional. You're still had the best part of
the Olympics. So yeah, I mean, if you have a cricket,

(48:58):
it's the same kind of idea as you're like a
little sticky mat so you just like wash it off
with water and then it gets sticky again. So I
don't I don't know know the witchery behind any of that,
but it works. So here we Yeah, I mean I
like that. It's good.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
I like that one too, And that comes with it's
a triple operation brush and roller bundle for thirty four
to ninety So honestly that's a pretty good price because this.

Speaker 9 (49:29):
Yeah, and I mean, you don't anything, Yeah, yeah, it's great.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yeah. So this, the cleaning part of it is very
similar to the other things that we've looked at. It
has the anti static brush in the middle, the two pads,
the little brush inside, so we use it the same
way as we use the other ones. It's sort of
an amalgamation of all of them. It has the little
silver bit like the vinyl style.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
Yep, touch that for grounding.

Speaker 4 (50:00):
Yeah, and then the kind of velvet that the Audio
Technica had the little brush inside, and then your style
is brush. So yeah, I think for the money, honestly,
that's a good yeah, good bang for your buck. Cute
toothbrush yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
Good yeah. So again, I mean, as we have talked
about at length, the carbon fiber do dads in the middle,
you're not supposed to touch those with your greasy mets.

Speaker 6 (50:37):
Don't do that.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Yeah, good hand feel, I mean, yeah, that's just for
me throwing the box down and you know I'm hurting
this record egregiously. But I mean my problem with the
like the dry kind of things is that I find
it just kind of moves the dust down the record,

(51:04):
you know what I mean. So that's why I prefer
like a wet clean, because I feel like it actually
does more of the job.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
Yeah, personal opinion, but I like, yeah, I like I
like a wet clean or the steamrollers clean.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Yeah, yeah, I do. I feel like the the the
sticky rollers are like the best, the best one because
they just like get rid of it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
Fly paper for record, all right, yeah, the big fudge
record pal woo. So these are your final. Yes, these
are under twenty bucks seventeen ninety eight on Amazon even.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
You can clean multiple records and when your pal has
collected a good amount of dust, simply rints under running water.
It'll be good as new.

Speaker 4 (52:09):
I love that and I use this guy. Actually, mind's
dusty because I use it all the time.

Speaker 14 (52:14):
It's great.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
I mean it looks like a like a like a
razor case. Yeah, and see how easy it is for
stupids to get into it? Oh kay, I did it?
Like so there's a little oh okay, so it's got
like a little piece of tape, like a little bandage tape.

(52:36):
So I'm guessing that this is like a protective film yep,
because like Jen has one, but I do not.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
So, I mean, I think the nice thing about this is,
unlike the turntable lab one, you don't have to keep
the plastic to keep putting it back around because this
one has its little like razor case. Yeah, so that's
kind of cool. Wooh, all right, satisfying.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Oh okay, yeah, I mean nice hand feel.

Speaker 4 (53:06):
Yeah, let's say, very ergonomic. Honestly, they both are.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
Yeah, okay, so can you see that dust on here? Okay,
so woo whoa.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Right, that's great. It's great. Yeah, and for under twenty dollars.
I feel like it's another thing everybody should have.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
Yeah. I mean this is like again, a really great
present for anybody that has records period. I mean even
if they have one already, it would still be right. Yeah,
this is my one for sevens. This is my one.
We're not sevens. I don't know if you're like me,

(53:50):
but like when you get like a new cleaning thing,
then you start to like see all the places you
could clean stuff with. Like the first time I had
a magic eraser, like bye bye, oh my god, I
was like, what is this sorcery? It's cleaning everything. So
now I'm like looking at my dirty turntable. I'm like, oh,
but this week they didn't here, No, no, no, because

(54:12):
I feel like that would be injurious to our little
record pal. Do you want to do that? So, I
mean that's ten out of ten for me. Yeah, like this, yeah, no,
that's great, great job, big fudge.

Speaker 6 (54:30):
One.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
The last kind of little like cleaning thing before we
jump into some other stuff is this nifty little Guy,
another Japanese product. Honestly, when Turntable Labs started advertising this
little blue brush. I was like, I just need it
because it's cute.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
Yes, the magic audio brush. I also just like anytime
somebody says something is magic, I'm like, really okaya, Oh,
I mean this looks like kabookie blush brush.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
Yes, that's exactly what it reminds me of.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
Again for anybody not not watching and listening, it's like
a beautiful makeup brush, very soft blue bristles with a
nice wooden handle, and it comes in a perfect little container.
And so this is where Robin can clean all of
the other dusty things that she saw.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Very well.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Because it's a magic audio brush for records and gear.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Yeah, I mean it works like a charm on the
record too.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Yeah yeah. And it's nineteen ninety five, so it might,
you know, for what for a brush. You might think
it's a little expensive, but honestly it's really nice quality
as everything Japanese is.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I mean, if you get if you get the equivalent
in a makeup rush, it's gonna be like sixties all right.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
If anyone's used it for makeup, let us know.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
I mean, that could be a crossover episode. Thinky tutorials.
Call me.

Speaker 4 (56:20):
From your turntable.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
To your face. Yeah. Great for components and dust covers.
Works best dry that can be used with spray cleaners. Oh,
we already screwed up. We're not supposed to the bristles.

Speaker 9 (56:35):
Well oops, I think it's still okay keeping the plastic case,
run the bristles along the edge of.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
The case or a credit card to dislodge the dust, okay,
and then water wash occasionally and dry thoroughly.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
So literally like a makeup brush.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I would use
like the same kind of soap that I use on
my horrific naked brushes once every six months when I
actually watch them. Right, it's not true, not that much
of a record once. I like this one. It's cute.

(57:20):
It would be I mean, cleaned up my gross turntable.
So that's great. Yeah, price points awesome again, a nice
little stocking stuffer or you know Hanuka gift because you
got to get eight of those, so.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
It's a good Yeah, true, I love that.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
It's cute, it's great. I mean I would love to
see like other colors. That would be my only thing because.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
Yeah, everybody likes blue.

Speaker 4 (57:54):
So moving out of cleaning and into some other stuff.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
Mm, hm.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
And we'll get into again more of the technical stuff
in part two, but for now we're going to jump
into a stabilizer.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
By Borg.

Speaker 4 (58:12):
Sounds very futuristic, it's yeah. So these you can get
leave Turntable Lab has them. They're a little cheaper on Amazon.
They are twenty five dollars.

Speaker 3 (58:31):
That's great.

Speaker 4 (58:35):
So do you use a record? Wait? Often me either.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
I don't have one ever, I've never had one. I
mean because I'm clumsy. I like anytime there's an opportunity
to drop something on record, as you have sad who
Day Live? Actually I did, I done did it? And
so like this is I mean, this is grosy. It

(59:08):
is two and eighty grams much like uh, we talk
about it on podcasts all the time, but probably like
actually two hundreds not.

Speaker 4 (59:25):
Since it is a weight.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
Yeah, uh, it looks like a compass for everybody following
along with their ear holes rather than their eye holes.

Speaker 4 (59:38):
Yeah, there is a little level essentially in the middle
in you know, these are supposed to enhance turntable performance,
preserve quality of your records, enhances the contact between the
record and the platter, reducing slippage vibrations, and stabilizing speed.

(01:00:03):
So yeah, if you're watching Robin has one on. Now,
how's that? Uh? How's that little level on their work?

Speaker 12 (01:00:11):
D Well?

Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
The bubble is just just off?

Speaker 4 (01:00:13):
But okay.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
A little bit. I mean, I don't, I don't know,
I don't. I mean I want to put it on
every single table I own now to see if it
is level on anything. I'm gonna I'm in my shop,
so I'm gonna go put it on my lave level

(01:00:37):
or like my lath facey see what's happening there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:41):
And you can get these like people make branded ones
like I have. I have a discogs one here. I
actually have one from riding Easy. To be honest, I
don't really use them much, but they are cool if
you do need one. How was it?

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
So the lathe is like sniper shop snipers shot.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
It only speaks to your quality.

Speaker 3 (01:01:08):
Oh that's right, she que season real time. So that
is I mean that makes me feel a little bit
better in my like heart parts about knowing what I'm doing. Also,
so that's right. I do. I do love this, I
feel like, especially if you have like records that have
just like a little bit of a like a dish,

(01:01:29):
you know, this will this will give you the the
things that you need to be able to to keep
it down.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Yeah, yeah, this is great.

Speaker 6 (01:01:41):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Let's just see. Yeah, I'm gonna try it out with
some of my goofy forty five's today. And it's got
I mean, it's got degrees, like degree measurements on the
top of it too, so you can tell like how
far out your turntable might be.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
The question I would have is when you see that
you have an outage or an error, then it would
be nice if there was like some documentation or like
next steps. Yeah, for the people that you know that
that are not as well versed. Maybe it does have

(01:02:25):
a stroboscope on the top too, so that you can
see if you are legging, if you don't have you know,
like tech twelves, if you don't have your calibration dots
on the sides. So that's hopeful too, to make sure
that you are playing at the proper speed, that your
motor is still motoring. But yeah, I mean, that would

(01:02:47):
that would be my one thing, and that's what we'll
talk about in a little bit next time as we
get more into our visual mediums and how to address
some of these problems, because I mean that's that's a
that's a big thing I think with a lot of
these gizmos and gadgets where you're like, oh that's cool.
Oh well now I have a problem. Now what do

(01:03:09):
I do with it?

Speaker 4 (01:03:10):
Yes, so exactly, Yeah, I will say, I agree. You know,
it comes in this box with nice like padding inside,
but there really isn't any other instruction. And same with
the other ones that I have. They just kind of
come a thing a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Yeah, yeah, And I mean that's that's all find and good.
And you know, the internet is vast and wide and
all that kind of stuff. You can probably find out
some things. But you know, if you're gonna you're gonna
show somebody that their stuff isn't working, at least do
them the kind of being like, hey, if you're a
little if you're hanging a little to the left, this
is the way to fix it. You know, like just

(01:03:48):
a little bit of an out of boy. I mean,
as we have identified numerous times, like there's a lot
of gate keepery bullshit in record collecting and gizmo's and
gadgets is just another kind of rabbit hole that you
can kind of go down. So don't be intimidated by
these things. As Jen and I have said, like some

(01:04:09):
of these things, this is the first goddamn time I'm
seeing any of them. So we can we can explore
how to do things with those. I'm I'm happy to
be your little experimentation in Hamster.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
Let's do Yeah. And honestly, that's why we wanted to
do this. You know, again, we get asked all the
time what our favorite things are, and these are some
things we have used and other things that we wanted
to try because like I don't know, does the zero
static gun work?

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Maybe? Yes, nope? Minus one? Minus one?

Speaker 6 (01:04:50):
Cool?

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
What else?

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
So next is the adapter? So seven inch people here.
I know not everybody loves seven inches, but Robin and
I love a seven inch slash forty five and so
we are going to talk about adapters. These are from

(01:05:13):
our wonderful friends at BCW. I think this might be
a newer thing. I didn't know they had these until recently.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Yeah, I didn't either. They have a lot of things though,
a lot of handy gadgets. See I also hoy So.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
For forty five adapters. You know, there's your traditional ones,
which you know are great. They're a little hard to
get in and out, though I think most people will say, so,
you know, old school had.

Speaker 3 (01:05:53):
Little sprocket ones are tricky sometimes m h.

Speaker 4 (01:05:58):
And then we have our women in bun adapters, which
are plastic but they're nice, super lightweight. You can just
put them on your turntable and then flip seven inches
in and out.

Speaker 8 (01:06:11):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
Then we have what we're talking about now, metal one, like.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, so, I mean, don't be scared,
it's not so. I mean you technically you could use
this as a record weight on a seven inch as well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:32):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
It was a small hole, yep. I mean there's some
people that like to put the weight on first and
then put the record delicately on top. And then there's
some people that just like freestyle that hit and put
the record on and then put the thing in there
and just like nestle it in you do you Yeah,
so fine?

Speaker 4 (01:06:55):
I do love the metal ones.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
Yeah, this is great. I mean, and if you have
a tech well, there are little edges. I mean you
can't see that right now, but there are little gaps.
I think you can see it on gens in her
back corner of her record player. There's a little holding
her on there. And the tech toals come with little
adapters too. Yeah, great for that, Yeah, so keep it close.

(01:07:21):
There's no reason to not listen to forty five superior
record format.

Speaker 4 (01:07:25):
The metal dome adapters from BCW or twelve ninety nine.
I think the ones on our site are about the
same a little less. There's also a company we'll put
in the show notes that Ray has gotten for me
before that. Actually you can put designs on top, so
he got me like a Vertigo label one. But yeah,

(01:07:46):
I think it's worth having if you play seven inches
DJ yeah, yeah, I mean you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Could never you can never have enough of them really, right.
And I finally, there's always there's always that opportunity where
you're like, oh, you want to borrow this forty five?
I mean not that anybody lends out their records, but like,
do you want to brow the forty five? Though there's
a little adapter to borrow. I used to give them
away at the record store all the time too, a

(01:08:12):
little like sprockety ones. Yeah, because they're they're easy to
I mean they used to make forty five's with them
stuck in the centers, so like I just bought one, Yeah, yeah,
from your trip.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Yes it was. It was Black Sabbath in an original
Vertigo sleeve with this adapter inside.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
I'm very shocked I could not.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
So before we get in, let's let's say first, okay,
so I think we just have to talk about this
because I've just been waiting to talk about this. Who
can we talk about the transit platter? Because so I

(01:09:11):
know I said earlier that my hands are small and
so sometimes it's hard for me to hold a record
and clean things. However, this is a little this is
a little wild to me. It was, honestly, and you know,
maybe a hot take so ridiculous that I had to
get that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
I mean, we love Gizmo. I mean the these new
Vinyl transit platters are used to place your vinyl when
handling disc change on your turntable. Engineered with military precision,
this object, with a very clever design, quickly becomes essential

(01:09:56):
for any vinyl user.

Speaker 4 (01:10:00):
I can tell you right now, never using it like Okay,
So first of all, for anybody listening, it is a
it's by Stable thirty three point thirty three. It comes
in various wood finishes. We have read. Oh well, sorry again,

(01:10:22):
I need but this is the first time I've ever.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Even heard of this, So it means I.

Speaker 4 (01:10:26):
Literally was like trolling turntable lab for things that we
needed to try, and I was just like, seriously, it
is literally like a puck, yeah, that has like a
soft base and then like a wood finish. And then
in between taking one record off the turntable and needing

(01:10:48):
to put it back in a sleeve and putting your
other record on the turntable, you just don't know what
to do. You don't have enough hands, so you need
to put it on this record ladder.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
I guess I use a little display mount too.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
Actually for Instagram photos maybe, so it's not laying on something.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
That's how you get it, like the like an aluminum
metallic or this black metallic. Obviously would prefer the black metallic. Yes,
it's got a felt base, which I mean instinctively, I
was like, do you put it on the record because
I was like that that can mean that's what I'm like,

(01:11:28):
where does this go? Because that you know what I mean?
I'm like, yeah, I mean, I guess you don't want
to scratch your furniture, but it's just good. It's been
like a rubber bottom or something. Yeah, but fine, I
mean the wood is beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
It is pretty yeah, true.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
I mean I'd like to talk to the military person
that has trouble changing records. It's like a little carry
bag too.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
So how much would you think records on the goal?
So I don't know, Like if it were me, I
would pay twenty five bucks. It is sixty four ninety
five Canadian or American American.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
Get out, So that's like eighty dollars Canadian mm hmm.
Inflation is real, but like.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
That so that's kind of but that's kind of why
I thought it was crazy, right, Yeah, it doesn't really
have any significant function to your experience, I don't think.
I mean, there's never been a time where I was
in like a huge hurry that I needed to like
quickly move something onto a platter.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
Yeah, I don't know. Let's see, you.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
Know, i'd be interested in other products, Like it looks
like they have a record weight also, like maybe that
would be cool.

Speaker 3 (01:13:07):
Yeah. Well, and I mean here we go for when
you're changing forty fives, you go that that happens quickly, Yeah,
that would.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
That could be Yeah, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:13:22):
A little justification. But I mean I guess what like
when you're DJing, like I would take this maybe to
a club and then have this little guy on the
side like as the commentator that you could be like,
all right, I gotta flip this quick. I'm going to
check this one over here. Yep, just so that you
know you're able to maintain your song selection. But I'm

(01:13:49):
curious trying.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
I am curious who it's marketed towards, because the quality
of it is very nice, so it seems very audiophile. However,
to your point, I feel like it would be better
served for or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Yeah. Yeah, I should have guessed that it was made
in Canada because it has H Francis on the front.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
Oh. Also available is the record weight, designed to optimize
the contact between the vinyl record and the platter. But
the platter is spelled wrong, so any I mean, anytime
you're doing marketing anything like this is technically an OBI strip.
If you're putting an OV strip on something and you've
got a spelling mistake on it, yo, So and the

(01:14:45):
platter sorry, The record stabilizer weight limits the induced resonance
phenomena on the turntable. So I mean, okay, does yours
have like a little goofy design on it, because mine's
got like a like on the actual wood. Mine, mine's

(01:15:07):
got like a little looks like like space writing or something.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
Oh yeah, I think that's like for turntable.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
Lab maybe yeah TTL. Yeah, okay, So I.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Don't know, tell us if you find it useful, if
you use one, would love to hear.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
Yeah, tell us, good gift for somebody to be like,
I don't know, you like records, do something with this. Yeah,
I mean it definitely is like handy for like photos
for sure, to keep them off of surfaces. Yes, yeah,
I mean I don't know. I mean I guess you
could use it for cleaning. It might be stable for cleaning,

(01:15:55):
could be we could try that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
We should try that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
Yeah, just as you know, we could put it all together.
So yeah, it comes in a few different finishes. I mean,
I hope all these trees are Canadian read walnut, cherry
and mahogany I mean beautiful mahogany finish, and then the
stainless steel model as well. If you hate trees, I

(01:16:21):
guess there's nobody does. So yeah, I mean that was
a little bit of an odd ball, but I mean,
if somebody gave it to me, I would.

Speaker 6 (01:16:31):
Not be upset.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
No, so exactly, it would be a nice gift.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
So, while we're on kind of oddball things, another thing
that I found while trolling vinyl things on Amazon, as
one does before an episode like this, the record mits
so also had not heard of they If you are listening,

(01:17:06):
remind me of, uh, I don't know, something that you
would put on the bottom of your shoes before looking
at a nice house.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
The way that I looked at them, I was like, oh, yes,
they're like they're like up in mids.

Speaker 4 (01:17:22):
Yes, they're exactly yeah, or like but like Maraccas y
Castanett's yeah, yes, little clam shells.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Yeah, but like felt on the inside.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
Come up with this, So yeah they are. They've got
like a little like paper finish on the outside. They
say Vinyl quantum, a little science y stuff, and then
the inside yeah is just felt.

Speaker 13 (01:17:55):
Hm.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
Did not come with any instructions or anything. However, I'm
pretty sure you just boop around the record and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Which seems are they for cleaning or for holding? Because
I feel like this is so that you don't touch them.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Could be.

Speaker 3 (01:18:12):
Right, because it's like the one thing that we have
come across time and time again in this is all
the instructions say, don't touch the bristles, don't touch the
black I mean we always tell people not to touch
the grooves ever anyway, But they.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Do come in a pack of you have to, I
have to. So there's packs of four for fourteen ninety nine.
They do say they're anti static record mittens.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Okay, but they don't have to mean bumbles. So yeah,
somebody like me, I would I mean, they're they're grippy
right now, but with maybe continued use they would be
harder to grab maybe or like you would wear it
out with your thumbs. Yeah you try.

Speaker 6 (01:19:01):
Boo.

Speaker 4 (01:19:03):
Yeah, So I mean I don't know. Definitely wouldn't want
to like with it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Yeah. Yeah. I feel like if somebody tried to do
a clean maneuver with this, this would be a bad news. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:18):
It doesn't feel like something you should clean with. Uh Yeah,
I mean yeah, I guess if you I guess, if
you like can't hold a record like normal, maybe you
need a mitten. Maybe if you're transitioning from your turntable
to your holder platter, you need a mitten, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
Or if you are practicing for your next uh flamenco dance.
You have to be really quiet. Yeah, I mean I
would like a thumbhole or something like a little thing.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
Yeah yeah, but I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
For the girlies that have or for the them's or
the days that have longer nails, this actually might be
really amazing, yeah, because I mean it is sometimes hard
to I wonder. Actually, let me see, let me see
if we can get a record off of the turntable
in one fell swoop with them. Let's see, right, yep,

(01:20:30):
back to our mangled go to Jarra. Just so that
we mitigate circumstances. Again, I'm sorry, go Jerry. I love
you guys. Okay, so let's see. So we have this
on here, so yeah, because.

Speaker 4 (01:20:43):
I mean you can, Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
I actually kind of love that because I mean there
have been times and I mean, like I'm not I'm
not happy to admit this, but I've tried to pick
up a turn like a record off of a turntable
and I have not been able to. And then I
have with my fingernail across the first track.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
Hi. My name is Robin and I'm a Vinyl abuser.
But yeah, I mean, so that actually is kind of sweet.
I actually love that because that, you know, takes away
a little bit of the potential danger for your records.

Speaker 10 (01:21:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
Yeah, we interviewed recently, uh eighties Andy. I believe it's
her Instagram account and she has like crazy long nails.
So yeah, maybe for something like that too. Yeah. Interesting Again,
if you use these, we would love to know, please.

Speaker 3 (01:21:48):
Yeah, or if you want to use them now because
you have long nails potentially.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Yeah, let us know what you think. No, let's get into.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Sid no idea what these were?

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
It was the first time that I ever picked it up,
and I mean again, really great little gift idea. I
mean they have maybe a little like.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
A little instruction, but like I mean yeah, like here
you go fourteen ninety nine, you get a pack of four.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
So yeah, no, it's great. Yeah, you don't know. I
mean it's always that thing, right, like, oh, well, my
person really likes records, and I don't know what you
get them for a gift. You don't know what music
they like, what record they might have seven copies of
already gin so you know, maybe getting them a little
doo dead Yeah they love them is a way to

(01:22:41):
do it, totally, all right, slip at and in the meantime.

Speaker 4 (01:22:48):
Whoa, whoa, ooh ooh, Oliver, we're in vinyl merch.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Hey like that? Hey mhm. Shout out to our good
friend Drew TETs for creating this little Zoa Trope beauty
for us too.

Speaker 4 (01:23:08):
Was this two years ago already? Yeah? And if you
are listening and it's October or watching and it's October,
we have the white version of that. Only twenty units
left available for our Halloween package, get them all.

Speaker 3 (01:23:23):
They're hot because Zoa Trope is definitely the twenty twenty
four trend. Yeah, trend alert.

Speaker 4 (01:23:30):
When we were before it. You know.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
It's true. We are trendsfitters. Jen always comes up to
the hottest spooky merch and it's always super limited edition
because we love a limited edition. So jumped in there.
Get that. Help out women in vinyl because I mean,
I'm wearing the shirt from last year too, yeah, and.

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
I'm wearing this year's Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:23:53):
I hate that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Look at us chilling it slipmat. I mean there are
nine hundred thousand different ways to do a slip mat. Yes,
some people don't even believe in slip mats, which is
cuckoo bananas in my opinion.

Speaker 4 (01:24:12):
Yeah, and before we started recording, we were actually talking briefly,
so I actually don't love a quark slip Matt, and
Robin loves a quark slip Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
I do love a quark slip Matt, not only because
it offers you a little bit more stability for potentially
a record that has a little bit of a a
little bit of a dish, a little bit of a wow,
a little bit of a something, but it also mitigates
a little bit of static as well. So Jen has

(01:24:42):
a really lovely runout group one. I have one that
I hand made for these kind of reasons. But our
good friends Blacks Radio also gave us ones that were lovely.
I mean, it seems like every single record store in
the world as a slip.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Met I know, we started framing them because they're all
so creative and we only need one or two at
a time, So yeah, depending on how many turntables.

Speaker 3 (01:25:14):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I had a pair of like
thick felt ones that I would travel with for DJing
that were that I would just take everywhere with me
that were Cadillac Emblem Yo baller shot collar. That's why
they were really they're really great but I mean just

(01:25:37):
like for regular for regular playing, I mean there's numerous
thicknesses of the felt ones, of the cork ones even Yeah,
there's rubber ones as well.

Speaker 4 (01:25:51):
Which is also good, which I was gonna look and
see because these are yeah, these are the felt ones.
I can't remember what the thickness is of the sixteen
ounce non glazed bottom professional grade.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
Yeah, I mean they go they go up in wait
and like pillow weness too. So I think I think
the biggest I think the biggest one is like a
three mil like three mil high. So, I mean the
critical thing here, as we have always talked about, is
you need to recalibrate your setup if you are going

(01:26:31):
to be changing the height and weight of whatever you're
putting on your surface. So because you're playback styles will
ride further down if your turntable matt is really high,
and then you're gonna just do more damage to your record.
You don't want to do that. I mean, let's do it.

Speaker 4 (01:26:53):
Have you used a rubber slipmet.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Yeah, I actually it's a stock on the kind of
too again for mitigating static looks like this. As you
can see, I've got like some four inch and seven
inch lines.

Speaker 4 (01:27:15):
On there, So how would you rate them from favorite
to least favorite?

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Or I mean what for Yeah, so like functionality, I
use like a regular felt one for new records and
for most I like, mostly for new records that don't
have any kind of a warp or a dish or
anything in them. If we're getting into ones that maybe

(01:27:45):
have a little bit of a challenge, then I go
to a cork mat. So I mean, I maybe I'm crazy,
but I changed slip mats a lot depending on what
we're listening to and depending on which it is too.

Speaker 11 (01:28:01):
I mean, the the Duel doesn't love having a a
felt slip maunt on it because it has like some
interesting detail like plastic texture.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
On the top of the actual turntable, so it kind
of slides. So I have a quirk on that one
because it just needs the stability. I mean, if you
have a cross Lea or like, uh, what's the it's
like the Crossley equivalent for audio technica. I mean, don't

(01:28:35):
shoot me for saying that, but it's the one that
doesn't have any kind of manipulations for the For the
I think it's the sixty maybe or the thirty I
put it. Yeah, I put a quirk on that one too,
again just to level out the plane surface. And then
that way you can add a little bit of weight

(01:28:57):
to your tone arm again with like a dime or
a penny or whatever, just to make sure that you're
getting riding the waves a little bit easier if you
have kind of an unstable playing surface. Yeah, what do
you guys? You guys, Yeah, you guys mostly just have felt, right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:13):
Yeah, mostly felt. I mean, I the reason I don't
love the cork so much is just mostly because a
lot of newer records when I play them on the
felt and you pick it up and it's all stuck
together and all of that. Maybe I'll use my static
gun and see if that does anything between now and
next time.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
But yeah, yeah, I mean obviously, like aesthetic wise, like
if you're going to take photos of whatever your colored
record is on a on a slip mat, like you
might want to have something that has like a design
set or something. Yeah, or aesthetic wise, the rubber slip
mount that we use on cutting lathes for like the

(01:29:56):
like the five sixties, like the lathe cutreck had ones
because they don't really have the slipmann on the Noimans
and the Scullies. They actually like a vacuum platter that
stucks your record down and it sucks the lacquer down,
which is great. I mean I would love that for everyone. Yeah,
but again it again it mitigates static and then it

(01:30:19):
does like a little bit with like frequency response and
noise floor and that kind of stuff too. So yeah,
they're helpful, yes, unless they get statick key and then
I will try the static gun and.

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
We will see exactly cool.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
Yeah, because it's getting to that time where static is
going to be a going concern every day.

Speaker 4 (01:30:42):
Yes. So the last bit for our part one is
poly bags. So do you do you poly bag your collection?

(01:31:02):
Is that something? Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
Sometimes? Being somebody that I like buys a lot of
poly bags to offer to my clientele, I have been
able to have additional ones, and because there's so many
different weights and things available, I've tried them out on

(01:31:29):
my own collection to see which one has like the
best wear and stuff. Because I don't shrink wrap, so
I offer a poly bank to just be like, well, hey,
you're gonna just open shrink wrap and throw it out anyway,
and shrink wrappers me, So no, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
Yes, if anyone doesn't know it's horror for a profit.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
I mean, I can't think of anything worse than falling
on a shrink wrap machine and then just being like
shrink wrapped. I think it'd be terrible. So I would
not want that for a record also because it mangles
your corners, Like don't talk to me about bed corners
when you have a shrink wrap machine. That is just like.

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
Yeah, I think that's like an industry thing that needs
to be discussed more as like you know, distribution wants
things shrink wrapped so that people feel like they're new.
I think there needs to be a change perception on
poly bags if we can get those out into the
world for retail.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean it's just like unnecessary plastic,
like to to just say, oh, this is a new record,
like it's coming from a factory, like you know, because
like they're all like they're in certain circumstances too, like
when they go to the record store, like they're taking
whatever other bag off of them and then put it

(01:32:47):
reputting them in another poly bag and then you buy
that poly bag, and then you take off that poly bag,
and then you take the shrink off and then you
put back the poly bag on, or you have a
whole other set of poly bags that you for your
own collection because you don't like the one that came
from the record store and so you put it in
that one. And to me, that just seems very very

(01:33:08):
wasteful and unnecessary. I mean it's just like a step
that you don't need. So like, yeah, I keep I
like to keep my sevens in poly bags because the uh,
some of the ones in my collection, like the actual
sleeve is very very degraded in pieces and whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:33:27):
So I'm just like foldovers, like the Punk seven inches, yeah, h.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
Yeah, I got it. Yeah, And I love doing the foldover.
There's such a economical option for people that are making
reference with me, So it's just a nice way to
keep everything together. Low cost, looks good. Yeah, but yeah,
I mean, like you can go down rabbit hole with these,
like some of the ones that picture discs come in,

(01:33:53):
because I mean, you don't want to put a picture
disk in a sleeve, right, so you're gonna put it
in plastics, which and.

Speaker 4 (01:34:02):
Some of these can't be shrink wrapped, you know, like
the fold over sleeves can't be shrink wrapped. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
So yeah, no, the paper is just too thin, so
you don't you just don't have the constitution to be
able to do it. Yeah, but yeah, like the poly
bags go from like very very thin to like a
like a six mil plastic that is like indestructible.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
So we could start with kind of the cheaper and
I mean, yeah, so these are so I tried to
get stuff that was like reputable, known brands to things
that you could buy on Amazon, because let's be real,
people are going to want to buy things on Amazon.
And so one of the ones that we found on

(01:34:51):
Amazon were these c c Idea. They're one of the
first ones that will come up if you search for
it on Amazon. They retail for fourteen ninety eight for
a pack.

Speaker 12 (01:35:04):
Of fifty and that they are some ASMR.

Speaker 4 (01:35:17):
They're crinkly, like I think like they would do the job,
but they're I don't love them.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
Yeah, I mean I find that ones like these two
really split easy, yes, like literally like put a jack yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:35:39):
Just I mean, yeah, oh my god, why is this
always the like I know how the record.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
I promise.

Speaker 4 (01:35:51):
These are three mil acid free and they're more clear.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
As tight as they thought that they were going to
be also.

Speaker 4 (01:36:01):
Yeah, they're tight and like any sort of slight pull
and now I have a completely open yeah like that.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
Yeah, And I mean that's always kind of the the
thing with these ones, like if you if you get
your jacket in just like a little bit cocky, it'll
just yeah, it'll seem like nobody's business.

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
Yeah, so, which is like sort of my beef. Sometimes
with three sealables too, but that's a whole other Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's always that, like the
crystal clear ones that have like a little bit uh
less durability. I find like the yeah, the like the plastic,
the more easy they are to split totally.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Yeah. So this is actually a new BCW product. We
do love BCW. They have some of these four mil
outer sleeve packs. I couldn't send Robin the whole pack
because it's wouldn't it wouldn't fit. So she does have

(01:37:17):
simple ones. So yeah, these are nicer. They are fifteen
ninety nine for the pack of fifty. They are. They
have a two mil one as well. Yeah, so how
does this one compare?

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
Yeah, that's nicely, it does feel like a it feels
like a thicker version. Oh yeah. Yeah, so like the
I think the durability is nice. Again, it does have
that scene that is potential for failure, but I feel like,
I mean BCW is always like really good with their

(01:37:59):
product though, so it might be it might be indestructible.
I mean, it is definitely only going to be for
like a single LP. I don't know that you could
get a double in here. That's kind of the other
thing that you have to like pay attention with is like, oh,
are these going to fit the records that I want

(01:38:20):
to sleep? Yeah, because yeah, like one goes in easy.
Do you have a two handy?

Speaker 8 (01:38:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
So that was so this is the four mil and
it's super thick.

Speaker 15 (01:38:31):
Yeah, I don't have the but yeah, this is like
so I can't well, I mean maybe it's yeah, it'll
get in there.

Speaker 4 (01:38:44):
It's definitely it's definitely a little tighter to get in,
but it'll get in there.

Speaker 3 (01:38:48):
Yeah. Yeah. So I mean that's that's kind of the
only thing. I mean, it depends on what sides your
records are too inside that double LP. If you've got
a double one eighty, you're probably not go to get
it in there, but maybe you could win.

Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
And then I'm looking for my vinyl style, which I'm
not sure where my vinyl style is, but you probably
have one, and I love those. They're like super buttery feeling,
like very luxurious, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
Yeah, and thicker again yeah yeah. And I mean that's
the thing too, because there's like, you know, if you
if you already have some records that have beat up jackets, like,
are you going to put them all in immaculate sleeves
or are you just gonna check on like a poly
bag that is, you know, more like a like a

(01:39:46):
record store kind of one that you would just reuse,
right why, yeah, just decrease a little bit of the elfware,
I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:39:57):
Yeah, So the fifty pack of bcw's f teen ninety nine,
the fifty pack of Vinyl Styles seventeen ninety five, and
then yeah, the CC Idea is fourteen ninety eight.

Speaker 3 (01:40:10):
So I mean, all good, like all good options, true, totally.

Speaker 6 (01:40:14):
Yeah, Well tuck tucka tuck a little note card about your.

Speaker 3 (01:40:24):
Vinyl acquisition in there as well.

Speaker 4 (01:40:27):
This is true.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
Are good friends at couple? No, yeah, I thought I
had some here, and then I guess that our last
ones are the rice paper ones.

Speaker 4 (01:40:40):
Yeah, yes, inner sleeves, yeah, yeah, these are the cards
vinyl record catalog cards. You can buy them on Kepple.
They're awesome if you really want to get into the
details of your records. But yeah, Robin has the inner sleeves,
so those are both BC audio file rice paper and

(01:41:04):
regular rice paper, so it's your audio file version. These
are sixteen ninety nine for a pack. I So I
normally don't resleeve mine unless they're in a beat up
inner sleeve, do you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:28):
Yeah, only if it's like really actually going to be
harming the record because the paper is really chewed up,
you know, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:41:38):
Or if it's like in a euro sleeve sometimes where
it's like the board stock and it's gonna rub against
the paper.

Speaker 3 (01:41:44):
Yeah, yeah, or just naked that's like, that's those are
kind of the only times that I'm gonna check anything
else in there.

Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Yeah, the needs because.

Speaker 3 (01:41:53):
They just, I mean, they sometimes they just don't fit.
Like some of the jackets were not made to accommodate
a sleep, so you know, you've got a naked record
and you're just like, oh geez, So then you have
to create an extra step because you sleave that record
and then the record goes outside the jacket well, and
there's like a. There's a conversation topic too, like are

(01:42:15):
you putting your records outside the jacket and then putting
them in a bag and then putting them on the
swave or on the shelf?

Speaker 4 (01:42:21):
I keep mine in their jackets.

Speaker 3 (01:42:23):
Yeah, same, So I mean, yeah, but that's like those
are the only times when there's something that like physically
does doesn't fit inside the jacket and a bag that
I will recently in and keep it outside of the
jacket and then and put them and I have re
sleeved all of my my seventy eights, my schwarks.

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
Yeah, so yeah, I think that makes sense. Yeah, like
I love the rice paper sleeves. I love the audio
file rice paper sleeves because it has that paper for
more stability. The only thing I don't love is sometimes
like the corners, it doesn't go in super smooth into
the jacket, so the corners will bend. But even worse

(01:43:06):
than that, I hate the old South American and Japanese
ones with the round bottom.

Speaker 14 (01:43:15):
Yeah yeah, I can see why to a point, but yeah,
they just they don't sit nicely and.

Speaker 3 (01:43:26):
Yeah, design flaw. So yeah, I mean that I think
is episode one.

Speaker 4 (01:43:37):
That's yeah, part one. We got through quite a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:43:41):
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coming next time.

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