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Posted by lyte on Oct-19-2004 02:45:

help! asap

somethings fucked up with one of my turntables. it was working a little bit ago lol and now it doesnt produce any sound and its not picking up much of a signal on the mixer. i can hear it playing from the turntable but not through my headphones or my stereo. its producing the SLIGHTEST sound, barely audible. help

Posted by dallas on Oct-19-2004 03:04:

everything plugged up right, and ground? and all electricity wires are in the same socket channel thingy

Posted by lyte on Oct-19-2004 03:06:

yeah.. i didnt change anything.. i switched carts and now its working fine and the cart that wasnt producing sound works fine on the other TT... mmm yeah i dont know ?

Posted by dallas on Oct-19-2004 03:08:

so both are producing sounds.. are they 'both' good carties??? if so, then maybe you figured it out on your own!

Posted by lyte on Oct-19-2004 03:20:

got Ortofon .. fuck.. i forget.. BRAINFART. bought em a month ago. theyre good carts but i dont know wtf was up.

Posted by montie on Oct-19-2004 03:25:

you shure you plugged your TT into the phono jack on your mixer and that your mixer is set to phono?

Posted by lyte on Oct-19-2004 03:40:

dude, yes.. everything was fine. turned my shit off, came back, left TT was barely producing audio. switched carts and both TTs were fine. i dont know whats wrong. anyone know what type of problem that is?

Posted by Shemeck on Oct-19-2004 04:20:

maybe the phono amp blew up, switch The TTs with each other so
TT1 to phono 2
TT2 to phono 1
and see if what happens

Posted by lyte on Oct-19-2004 04:30:

what do you mean the phono amp blew up?

Posted by D Dubya on Oct-19-2004 05:24:

I don't think the "phono amp blew up".

I am surprised it wasn't the simple mistake of either having the mixer switch on line-in (which I have done before) or having the TT plugged into the line-in input. Either way, sounds like things are working fine now. Maybe it was just a bad connection between the cart and the tonearm which is rare, but it does happen.

Posted by lyte on Oct-19-2004 12:49:

I didn't change any settings. I simply transferred cartridges from one TT to the other.

Posted by Shemeck on Oct-19-2004 19:34:

quote:
Originally posted by lyte
what do you mean the phono amp blew up?

The one in the mixer. Did you check it?

Posted by tu_face on Oct-20-2004 08:57:

it will probably have been a bit of guff in the tonearm socket. it may have got caught there when you first installed the cart, sometimes these things move about as you move the tonearm to and from the record, working the guff between the contacts.

just remove both of your carts and blow gently down the tonearm socket

Posted by djxtension on Oct-20-2004 10:15:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
it will probably have been a bit of guff in the tonearm socket. it may have got caught there when you first installed the cart, sometimes these things move about as you move the tonearm to and from the record, working the guff between the contacts.

just remove both of your carts and blow gently down the tonearm socket

Yup, that could be the problem.

If it isn't, check the wires on the cart for damage. If they are damaged, your cart is f*cked.