I find the Audioquest brush indispensable,the secret to using one correctly is a very light touch, the carbon fiber bristles are very supple they will easily get down into the grooves with the lightest touch basically the AQ's
wieght alone, when you've got the line of dust gently slide the brush across the grooves, flick the brush across the handle briskly a couple of times to shed whatever dust adhere's to the bristle tips and give the LP another few rev's with the brush and you've removed all the fine dust.
With a really dusty LP the Decca Xstatic or Hunt brush with their stiffer double set of bristles and the velvet pad between is useful for digging out heavier crud before using the AQ brush, with the Hunt or Decca you don't slide it off the LP like the AQ they're designed to have the velvet pad pick up the dust,you use a stiff bristled tooth brush to clean the velvet pad, any residual dust dug out and left behind is easily removed with the AQ, all that's needed to use an AQ brush is a little finese.
I also use CF brushes for wet cleaning now as well, I tried the RRL recommended CF brush technique and I find it works perfectly as the surfactants in the RRL do all the heavy lifting a CF brush gently abrading the grooves is all the scrubbing that the RRL needs.
I read reports of people unable to use CF brushes effectively I find that most friends who have experienced that are trying to jam the bristles into the grooves, all that is accomplished is the smooth shafts of the bristles
are contacting the grooves and they have no ability to abrade nor pick up anything, the bristle ends are what does the work.
DiscWasher bruishes were fine in their day, but are sadly deficient at best now in comparison with proper initial wet/clean vacuuming and subsequent CF brush use you'll never need to wet clean an LP again and it will remain pristine.
wieght alone, when you've got the line of dust gently slide the brush across the grooves, flick the brush across the handle briskly a couple of times to shed whatever dust adhere's to the bristle tips and give the LP another few rev's with the brush and you've removed all the fine dust.
With a really dusty LP the Decca Xstatic or Hunt brush with their stiffer double set of bristles and the velvet pad between is useful for digging out heavier crud before using the AQ brush, with the Hunt or Decca you don't slide it off the LP like the AQ they're designed to have the velvet pad pick up the dust,you use a stiff bristled tooth brush to clean the velvet pad, any residual dust dug out and left behind is easily removed with the AQ, all that's needed to use an AQ brush is a little finese.
I also use CF brushes for wet cleaning now as well, I tried the RRL recommended CF brush technique and I find it works perfectly as the surfactants in the RRL do all the heavy lifting a CF brush gently abrading the grooves is all the scrubbing that the RRL needs.
I read reports of people unable to use CF brushes effectively I find that most friends who have experienced that are trying to jam the bristles into the grooves, all that is accomplished is the smooth shafts of the bristles
are contacting the grooves and they have no ability to abrade nor pick up anything, the bristle ends are what does the work.
DiscWasher bruishes were fine in their day, but are sadly deficient at best now in comparison with proper initial wet/clean vacuuming and subsequent CF brush use you'll never need to wet clean an LP again and it will remain pristine.