Set RAW sharpening, noise to zero

Assuming that we are going to round trip to Photoshop for noise reduction and sharpening (via plugins for me), how do we make the Lightroom raw convertor NOT automatically set sharpening and noise reduction before this round trip?
-ddog

Create a develop preset with the settings you like and apply it on import.

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