Do you use covers or dust your gear?

[rids]

My gear has become really dusty. Partly from work and partly due to me working more on the software side lately. When you dust, that crap flys everywhere. So then you're left with using some lightly damp paper towels to stick to the dust and pick it up. Can be a little messy and it takes time to get every nook and cranny. Covers are simple, but you don't get to look at your as much. Though, I'm thinking I might try finding some covers. Any ideas of covers to use? Maybe I should just use some towels.

I wondering what you guys like or think is the better way to go. The only reason I'm thinking covers is because I hate playing with gear and it's all dusty feeling on the keys, knobs, and buttons. Somehow it's irritating. I use to dust, but I lost my duster and am left with the paper towel method.

Also, on a side note, do you find it more distracting or troublesome (even though it's only removing the cover) to have to remove and put back the covers everytime you play?

[PeteJames]

I use a huge DC10 Circoloco Flag I can whip it off like a magic trick to reveal the goodies underneath in less than a second!

[Bumply]

I just use towels and modified trashbags.

[clusterchord]

i use LeCover for almost all my analogs.

completely dust impenetrable, water resistant too. built to size of different models. most classic analogs are covered.

http://www.lecover.com/Studio/main4a.html



towels, altought very slowly, do let the dust thru in the end. like most textile fabric do. been there , done that. it was only a temporary solution.

[Tarkovsky]

Nope. And I smoke too. I'm ****ing dirty mate. My laptop is grimery. My speakers are grimey. My masterkeyboard looks like it's had a bath in mugwump jism, and the chair I'm sitting in smells like someone sat in for too long without showering. I live the ****ing dream mate.

[NWSooner]

I have spandex dust covers for my keyboards, mixer, guitars, basses, everything. It only takes 2 seconds to take them off, and maybe 4 seconds to put them on.

I went this route after I let my K2000 get supremely dusty and had a hell of a time cleaning it.

[DayglowScarecrow]

i use a paintbrush that i purchased specifically for dusting duties. it's about an inch to an inch and a half wide and about two inches deep. it's worth spending a little bit on a good one so that it's less prone to losing bristles.

i tend to dust once a week or once every two weeks. when i do, i start at the top and work my way down to the lower tiers. i usually place a clean bath towel on the lower tiers while i'm dusting the upper ones so that i don't get dust on the lower placed gear.

i don't like the idea of using chemicals on plastic/PVC materials, even though i would love to sterilize the keys themselves now and again.

[subby33]

Cover up those beautiful machines?

ARE YOU MAD!!!!!?????

[shadowfac]

I use some old curtains and dust every once in a while with a slightly damp cloth.

[sameal]

well I'm super ghetto and super broke, and super go green.

my recent build of my personal studio has me reusing all kinds of things.

i had a bedsheet about rip in half, so i just finished the job, used one part to cover my midi station, and the other to cover my 24ch. also the useless cover sheets that come with most bed-sets work good too. i got one covering up my babies. (the synthetic ones!)

for the smaller stuff, i found some plastic sheeting from a stint at a plastics manufacturer and cut those up to fit over my other gear. like the portastudio and a few other keyboards not under the cover sheet.


i actually built most of my studio furnishings out of left over wood i found in random places. a good coat of paint and nobody will ever know. combined with ikea solutions it's keeping my budget and wallet happy.

[AJ Reynolds]

i just use a normal duster then hoover about once a week.

[Spectral Climax]

I use some old shirts and clean them every 1 or 2 weeks...

[8golftango]

I buy compressed air and electrical wipes at sams club in 12 packs. I seriously need to build some covers.

[clank72]

Originally Posted by subby33

Cover up those beautiful machines?

ARE YOU MAD!!!!!?????

+1.

[clank72]

Originally Posted by Spectral Climax

I use some old shirts and clean them every 1 or 2 weeks...

This can't be serious.

I want pics...

[Serra]

go for the covers and don't look back!

[Derp]

Dust about once a week, and then about once every month or so, I bust out the canister vac to suck the dust from around all the knobs.

[sameal]

Originally Posted by clank72

This can't be serious.

I want pics...

me too! you'd have to have some old gangster xxl shirts to cover anything with!

[payt]

Dust covers are for girls... and women.

[sameal]

Originally Posted by payt

Dust covers are for girls... and women.

i am am both, what now?

[payt]

Originally Posted by sameal

i am am both, what now?

hmm.. that'd be 2 reasons to get a dustcover

Then again.. double positive is a negative, so i guess no dustcover after all.

[Xero]

i'm really interested in this - where can i get spandex covers or something? Is this a one-size-fits-all kinda thing? my stuff gets dusty so quickly i'm always afraid it's going to get into the sliders and cause some premature wear....fingers crossed everything's fine so far but i've been wanting to look into this for a while...

lol payt, nice sig. i think the answer to your jupiter 8 w/encore question is "put a dust cover on it" :P that's one of the synths i want it for!

[Dubtek71]

Originally Posted by Xero

i'm really interested in this - where can i get spandex covers or something? Is this a one-size-fits-all kinda thing? my stuff gets dusty so quickly i'm always afraid it's going to get into the sliders and cause some premature wear....fingers crossed everything's fine so far but i've been wanting to look into this for a while...

lol payt, nice sig. i think the answer to your jupiter 8 w/encore question is "put a dust cover on it" :P that's one of the synths i want it for!

Spandex covers?!? Really?!? No please don't!!! Okay... Maybe your big polys SOUND really FAT. But that does not mean you need to dress them in spandex! tutt

please choose or something...anything but spandex

[djanthonyw]

[ctrlshft]

I just use a standard electrostatic duster on everything every few weeks. Dust covers = gear neglect. Sell it!

[Reptil]

Some of both.
It's a really dusty city.
wasn't always that way. it's purely the highways that they built around it.

best is a powerful vacume cleaner, and a softhaired paint brush.

[danielb]

I use one of these:

[totty]

The Virus TI Polar has to sleep under a cover - I'm in touch with my feminine side y'now

[msl]

Yep I live in a filthy city, dust covers and a feather duster once a week or so. Covering them is kinda negative though and does lead to neglect, cause if I'm working alone I'll just uncover the machines I'm using at the time, mixer and one synth usually... it does suck. My poor old sampler and drum machines haven't been uncovered for months.... dfegad



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[Spectral Climax]

Originally Posted by sameal

me too! you'd have to have some old gangster xxl shirts to cover anything with!

To be honest, i have used a pillow cover, a t-shirt and some old handkerchiefs...they work quite nicely if you clean them regularly. They don't have to be in xxl sizes...you just cut them on the side and they can cover a bigger surface...they don't even look like t-shirts or anything else...

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P.S. they are not so pretty looking...i know...
P.S. Dust can become very annoying inside pots/knobs/faders etc... I hate dust...