Collector Protector Vinyl Record Cleaner Kit - Includes 70’s-Style Soft Velvet Record Brush, LP Cleaning Solution, Stylus Brush & Cleaning Liquid, Microfiber Cloth & Storage Pouch

First thing to know about cleaning vinyl records is that playing a dirty record will damage the vinyl and negatively affect the sound quality. Maintaining clean records will preserve not only the life of your LPs but also the life of your record player. Here's a few tips for cleaning:

If your record is visibly dusty, do not contaminate your brush by dry dusting. You will harm both brush and record. Wet clean your record first.

To use your velvet brush, spin record on turntable and lightly mist brush with spray cleaner. Place brush at a 90 degree angle on the record. With light pressure on the brush, allow record to rotate a few times and then slowly slide brush towards you and off the record.

Dry dusting your records with a velvet brush before and after play is the best way to keep your records clean and sounding great.

Always remove surface debris and dust before any deep clean.

New records are not necessarily clean records. Clean your records before the first play.

Less friction is better. Be gentle with your albums.

A turntable or stylus in bad shape will damage your record. Keep your stylus clean in between records by using a stylus brush and cleaner. Always brush cartridge back to front, never side to side or front to back.