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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Better than sex.

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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