the thread i posted in was closed so had to make a new one.


for those who use SSL (the 1.3+) does the pitch displayed on their screen stay perfectly still or does it move slightly at all?

im having trouble beat matching because the pitch will move a little up and/or down - ie it never stays constant.

this is not my turntables as i have tried matching the same songs using their original vinyl and had absolutly no problem. when i tried the mp3s with SSL i found myself having to correct like crazy.

any suggestions? and plz dont refer me to serato message board because they told me it was my turntables.


i use 2x Technics M5Gs (brand new) - when serato told me it was my turntables i had them serviced. still the pitch fluctuates. is it possible the pitch variation is caused by the control vinyl being warped? i use CV02s btw

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sounds pretty likely that it could be your ssl vinyls

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It most likely is you control records. The origional pressings had some minor pitch change problems from faults in the master pressing, thus thousands of records were jacked up. The origional records were marked as CV01. Soon after Rane released CV02 which uses a better quality master and fixed the pitch drifting problems from the cv01. Those records are labeled on the upper corner of the sleve as "second edition".

If you own cv01s, in the setup you can enable "drift compensation"; that should help on the older records and shouldn't effect the newer cv02s.

If you still have problems, make sure your turntables are properly calibrated in the setup. Your goal is to make each circle as round as possiable, and have tracking stay on 100% while playing the code records. Once that's done stop the records, and set the threshold level until the tracking stays constant at 0%. That should square you away.

If you still have problems, it may be your carts. From my experience with many different needles, SSL seems to like high output carts like the Shure M44 series, Ortofon Electros, and Stanton 680hp.

I'm currently using shure m44g without problems, and i've also used shure whitelabels prior to the m44gs without problems as well.

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