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Posted by VoiDeT on Oct-22-2001 04:00:

Anti-Skating

Hey,
I have a pair of 1200's with some stanton 500-II's in them, i was wondering what i should set the anti-skating to, at the moment both dex are set at 0. And can some one tell me what the anti-skating does, i know it stops it or reduces the risk of jumping, but how does it do it? and what does it actually do? anyways thanx to anyone who tells me...

Posted by Fyx on Oct-22-2001 04:51:

It's a good idea to have your anti-skate set up properly.

Here's the info for setting it up from one of my previous posts:

*snip*
As a rule of thumb I would say to set the antiskate to be anywhere from .5 to 1 times the setting on the tonearm. I set mine to 1.8 for my tonearm weight of 2.5. You should never set the antiskate to be higher than the tonearm weight.

If you are a scratch DJ it is a little different, and you probably want to leave the antiskate at zero.
*snip*

Now what anti-skate does, is it applies an outwards force on the tonearm. This counteracts the inwards force created by dragging a record against the needle.