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We all own carbon fibre brushes! good technique allegedly is to hover over the record and then move towards the label and touch the spindle. I use mine to clean the mat these days.
One thing I do use often is stylus cleaner, stylus scale and a home printed alignment disk. Also aim to get a test record to help set the arm/stylus up.
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I got one of those anti-static (carbon fibre) brushes as that's what my long-time record collector mate uses, also saw these in all the record shops so thought this must be good.
It's indeed good to carefully brush loose dust away right before playing the record I find.
Now I realize newly bought, never played records can have shit on them from the manufacturing process, and read a lot of people think you should clean / wash new records before you play them.
I have been trying the distilled water plus alcohol plus a drop of rinsing agent and microfiber cloth approach, and while a bit tedious it does work. Records play nicely, and I put them in their poly-lined sleeves afterwards with a content expression on my face.
The static (and thus the dust) does return though.
I think it comes from the record player itself, the dry air, invisible cats, I don't know.
Maybe a better mat could improve things I tought.
Read up on the subject and now I'm super confused, frankly, there doesn't seem to be a one-fits-all solution to this.