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Posted by ASFSE on Nov-13-2005 18:30:

Skipping record's

What causes a record to skip? needle or grooves? i just got a new record yesterday and it's already starting to skip in certain places, what gives?

Posted by Fearless One on Nov-13-2005 18:34:

any visible scratches on it?

Posted by ASFSE on Nov-13-2005 18:38:

no, very clean.

Posted by Fearless One on Nov-13-2005 18:43:

hmmm... strange

maybe you should try move counterweight on tonearm further, it could help...

Posted by Basstard on Nov-13-2005 19:25:

make sure anti-skate is set at 0 also

Posted by name_withheld on Nov-14-2005 00:57:

Check your counterweight settings + antiskate. Also, if your headshell has wires hanging down from the cart to the terminal, make sure they can't contact the record - took me ages to figure out why my whitelabels wouldn't track properly.

Posted by ASFSE on Nov-14-2005 01:54:

thanks everyone, i'll try all that was suggested when i get some free time!

Posted by KristineClub on Nov-14-2005 03:16:

Sometimes if there's something on the vinyl it's barely visible. Try stopping the record right where it skips and look at that part of the record with a magnifying glass. If you have steady hands, you might be able to scrape off whatever is there that's making it skip. This is very risky though because you might just damage your record even more. It's worked for me before.

Posted by djkoolaide on Nov-14-2005 06:06:

Sometimes it just depends on the cart you're using. I have a record that skipped when it was brand new on a Shure M44-7 cart, and then I tried my shitty Stanton 500 AL II or whatever and it plays perfectly

Posted by T-Soma on Nov-14-2005 08:27:

Theres a very good chance that when you get brand new carts they are gonna skip, you just got to break them in. Leave them on the vinyl for maybe 1-2 hours for a few nights.

Posted by ASFSE on Nov-14-2005 19:13:

my anti-skate was not on zero, so i set it back to zero, and so far no problems!