sometimes you have found a nice cuepoint, but dont want to throw it in right now and press the stop button. the needle will stay at the same point for a while. can this cause a little hole in the vinyl? is this a bad thing??
thanks for reading.

If the needle is on the vinyl and there is no movement it can't scratch it for one thing...
And as long as you won't put a barbarian amount of wight on it there won't be enough weight for it to harm the vinyl either
Yeepee yay

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When I cue:

1. I first find the correct pitch for the record to be cued,
2. then I find a good place to start the record...
3. moving the record back and forth a couple of times to find the exact cue point
4. then I leave the needle there, on the vinyl

This means that the needle often stays at the same point for several minutes. I have never heard that this is bad for the vinyl, and I haven't had any bad experiences either.

Almost every DJ I've ever seen does this exact same thing. It just saves you a bit of time later on when you actually need to find the cue point again.

It doesn't actually hurt the record; all the record is, is a flat disc of plastic. Putting 3 grams of weight onto a bit of plastic is not going to cause any damage, and even if it does then it's certainly not going to cause as much damage as 3 grams of weight that's actually going along and rubbing the surface of it, i.e. playing the record.

Alright then...
many thanks for your reactions !!

That brings me to a very interesting question; how many of you, after finishing beatmatching and cueing and stuff, actually stop the turntable to make the needle rest at a particular point until it's time for transition? And how many of you just let it run and come back to it again when it's time to do the mix?

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Depends on lotsa stuff... I haven't gotten to the level of mixing where I actually find a specific point to insert the track with except the first beat or the sound before it...
But that would be one reason and cept that I ussually just insert it at the point where the audio begins (or a short while afterwards when the first beat comes in) and that doesn't require pre-cueing but if there's a LONG intro (Aria- Dido AvB's UR remix) I might do that.

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