How much weight do U put on your cartridge (home/club)

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Posted by discobiscuit on Nov-22-2005 05:01:

How much weight do U put on your cartridge (home/club)

hey guys, i was wondering how much weight you put on your cartridges when spinning.. does it differ when you are using your tt's at home or at the club?

i am currently putting 2.5 g's on my numark tt500's w/ shure m44g cartridges when i'm at home and was wondering if that was too much weight. i was thinking about dropping back to 2g's... also should i put more weight on the cartridges if i dj at a party or something where there is people dancing around me and stuff?

thanks
bisco

Posted by _-MIl0 on Nov-22-2005 05:40:

I think thats chill exspecially for shures, As for in the club to be honest im really hard on my records as their serato scratch records and easy to replace so i put the weight all the way down for that extra traction.

Posted by SpecRadio on Nov-22-2005 07:23:

I just put the weight all the way down. Of couse I rip everything to wav first.

Posted by sr126 on Nov-22-2005 07:24:

at home w/the whitelables, i have them set at about 1.8-2g.

at our last desert party (my first time using the needles out of the house, hence the first time using it at our party) i ended having to set them at 3g, after than they played perfectly the rest of the night. any less, skipping, and popping issues would crop up. the ground wasn't perfectly flat, and there was a breeze at the begining of the night. so a little extra weight was all it needed.

Posted by ThaRegger on Nov-24-2005 21:34:

2.5 g

Posted by wee_rooney on Nov-24-2005 21:57:

3.0 g's on Ortofon Concorde Scratch s'

Posted by Inertia on Nov-24-2005 22:28:

as light as i can.

generally around 3g's on ortofons.

Posted by Liam on Nov-25-2005 17:27:

whitelabels: 2.75 - 3
elektros: 3

both at home.

Posted by Djyoungsta00 on Nov-25-2005 20:57:

Ortofon Dj's

2.5 - 3g

and anti skating at 0

Posted by Vlad on Nov-25-2005 21:06:

I put as little weight as possible on the carts without the cart skipping and sliding around. Ill look how much when I get home.

Posted by Audigy7 on Nov-27-2005 05:23:

Re: How much weight do U put on your cartridge (home/club)

quote:
Originally posted by discobiscuit
hey guys, i was wondering how much weight you put on your cartridges when spinning.. does it differ when you are using your tt's at home or at the club?

i am currently putting 2.5 g's on my numark tt500's w/ shure m44g cartridges when i'm at home and was wondering if that was too much weight. i was thinking about dropping back to 2g's... also should i put more weight on the cartridges if i dj at a party or something where there is people dancing around me and stuff?

thanks
bisco

I think you can go a bit easier on the weight; I'm running 1.2g on one and 1.5g on the other and the only time it skips is if I'm going nuts with the record. I have m44g's, btw. And I run different weights on my two tables because one of them skips easier than the other, for some reason.

Posted by T-Soma on Nov-27-2005 06:37:

I find that i need different weight for my m44gs. I also found that they need to kinda 'warm up' evertime i use em.
They dont work so well for the first few min then they start sounding better. Its realy wierd.

Posted by InterMilan31 on Nov-27-2005 06:55:

Posted by Allied Nations on Nov-27-2005 09:38:

about 1.5g on shur m44g with tt500s.

Posted by discobiscuit on Nov-27-2005 10:04:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ 00 Tommy
I find that i need different weight for my m44gs. I also found that they need to kinda 'warm up' evertime i use em.
They dont work so well for the first few min then they start sounding better. Its realy wierd.

dude i can totally relate... i was thinking the same thing

Posted by kernkraft on Nov-27-2005 13:43:

with ortofon nightclub E, i usually have 3g. I sometimes go lower while recording (2.5g), and sometimes go to 4g when heavy duty is needed