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Originally posted by altitude guys guys guys! come on now! you aren't actually thinking about doing this are you?! You paid good money for that quartz lock. Don't just rip it out. If you dont want the pitch lock buy mk3s or mk5s learn to mix with the quartz lock. its just a click. yes it is annoying, but you guys are djs, you NEED to learn to adapt to any situation. if you are thrown off by a quartz lock.. you are not a dj if you cant pull it off anywhere on any equipment, no matter how crap, much less worry about a small click on your pitch!

Shut The Fuck Up.

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Originally posted by Tony Morello so, after reading the thread you might notice they aren't talking about removing the pitch click, they're talking about modding their techs so the quartz lock feature that compensates for platter resistance isn't being used so when they beatmatch, they can touch the platter and have it not speed up slightly when dragging your finger on the platter or have it slow down slightly when you speed up the platter which is why we tell people to learn to ride the pitch

AH! ok, I understand,
still, don't mod your techs, bad idea
you should not have to make adjustments that are so drastic that this should become a problem?

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Originally posted by altitude AH! ok, I understand, still, don't mod your techs, bad idea you should not have to make adjustments that are so drastic that this should become a problem?

It's a simple little cut wire and a resistor you can solder back on even if you've had no soldering experiance ever. The gap where you cut it is SO tiny it's an easy fix.

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Altitude is making a point for sure, and just what he mentions is the reason why I don't want to mod my techs...

when it comes to riding the pitch, I'm trying to adapt to it, but there is one huge issue which I'm having a problem with. I've experienced that already after a few hours behind the decks trying this new technique is way more accurate when it commes to getting the beats matched, instead of touching the platter - BUT, riding the pitch most often also gets the speeds of the two records matched up further from eachother. Unlike CD-players you don't know if your pitch is at 1.0 or 1.4%, you can only do an approximation, and let's say I've got a pair of records pretty cloe matched up (they run smoot for a few seconds)...as they start to slip apart I'm trying to correct them again, riding the pitch, and after I got the beats matched up for a split second and bring the pitch back to where it was, say 1.4% I instead brint it back to let's say 1.3%, and now the records aren't even matched as good as before. Do you get me? Does anybody have a solution for this?

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Originally posted by Laszlo Altitude is making a point for sure, and just what he mentions is the reason why I don't want to mod my techs... when it comes to riding the pitch, I'm trying to adapt to it, but there is one huge issue which I'm having a problem with. I've experienced that already after a few hours behind the decks trying this new technique is way more accurate when it commes to getting the beats matched, instead of touching the platter - BUT, riding the pitch most often also gets the speeds of the two records matched up further from eachother. Unlike CD-players you don't know if your pitch is at 1.0 or 1.4%, you can only do an approximation, and let's say I've got a pair of records pretty cloe matched up (they run smoot for a few seconds)...as they start to slip apart I'm trying to correct them again, riding the pitch, and after I got the beats matched up for a split second and bring the pitch back to where it was, say 1.4% I instead brint it back to let's say 1.3%, and now the records aren't even matched as good as before. Do you get me? Does anybody have a solution for this?

Yeah...I don't understand how to ride the pitch "accuratley" on turntables.

If it's fading off, you bring it up in speed quick, but you bring it down above the last one...it's still not accurate and you have to guesstimate where it's supposed to be.

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Originally posted by Laszlo Altitude is making a point for sure, and just what he mentions is the reason why I don't want to mod my techs... when it comes to riding the pitch, I'm trying to adapt to it, but there is one huge issue which I'm having a problem with. I've experienced that already after a few hours behind the decks trying this new technique is way more accurate when it commes to getting the beats matched, instead of touching the platter - BUT, riding the pitch most often also gets the speeds of the two records matched up further from eachother. Unlike CD-players you don't know if your pitch is at 1.0 or 1.4%, you can only do an approximation, and let's say I've got a pair of records pretty cloe matched up (they run smoot for a few seconds)...as they start to slip apart I'm trying to correct them again, riding the pitch, and after I got the beats matched up for a split second and bring the pitch back to where it was, say 1.4% I instead brint it back to let's say 1.3%, and now the records aren't even matched as good as before. Do you get me? Does anybody have a solution for this?

More practice. Eventually you'll get your records matched up for more than a few seconds and when they do start to drift you only really push the pitch fader a few millimeters in the opposite direction, listen for the beats to come back into line and push it back a few millimeters. No need to look at the pitch fader or approximate what pitch you are at just use your ears because they work better than your eyes for beatmatching.

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