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| Radders2003 |
I'm using the Stanton T.80's.
For some reason when i'm trying to find the first beat to beatmatch. I.e. stracthing back and forth to find the beat, the record skips. The reord jumps a little and i've lost the beat.
Also, for some very strange reason, say if i want to slow down the record a bit, i would just touch the platter to slow it down, when i let go the record speeds up a little then slows down again.
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| Jarvmeister |
the speeding up may be a feature. Check the manual to see if you can switch that off.
Also, when you say you found the first beat, are you sure you're setting your cue point? If you don't set the cue point on a CDJ, the minute you take your hand off the platter it'll go back to the beginning of the track. Check the manual to make sure yo9u're doing it right, but generally you just need to be holding the platter in the place where you want the cue point to be and then press the CUE button.
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| ovv |
Too bad Stanton T80s are not CDJs, but proper turntables. :clown:
You might not have enough weight on. Try increasing some weight on the the cartridge (by twisting the tonearm-weight, naturally) and see if that corrects your problem. |
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| Zoso |
| I've had a new stylus cause this from time to time. Once it's broken in, the skipping stops. Also, like suggested above, check the weight on your tone arm. Unfortunately, I also have a couple of vinyls that simply seem to be more prone to this than others. :( |
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| Wraith |
| quote: | Originally posted by Radders2003
I'm using the Stanton T.80's.
For some reason when i'm trying to find the first beat to beatmatch. I.e. stracthing back and forth to find the beat, the record skips. The reord jumps a little and i've lost the beat.
Also, for some very strange reason, say if i want to slow down the record a bit, i would just touch the platter to slow it down, when i let go the record speeds up a little then slows down again.
Thanks. |
I used to experience the skipping phenomena with my TTXs as well. Like Zoso says it can be due to not having enough weight on the stylus, it being new, or just a finicky record. If it's the last one the only thing you can really do about it is start cueing on the second beat and see if it'll jump there. |
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| IntegraR0064 |
It may also be because there's too much weight on the stylus. What cartridges do you have? They should have come with a little sheet saying the recommended weight. Make sure that it's set to that weight - no more and no less.
As to the turntable speeding up, all turntables do that. That's why you're not supposed to touch the platter ideally. You have three options:
1) Slow it down more than you want to to compensate for the fact that it's going to speed up on you briefly.
2) Touch the record instead of the platter so it just slips on the platter, so it won't speed up afterwards (obviously you would touch it much lighter than you would touch the platter).
3) Don't touch the record or the platter, but just use the pitch control to briefly change the speed, then put it back closer to where it was. This is the best way to do it, and allows the most control, but also usually requires the most practice. Being able to do it this way also helps a lot with when you have to use different turntables or CD players, since they're a lot more consistent this way...different turntables respond to touching the record/platter pretty differently. |
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| PoisonJam19 |
| hhmmmmm... I have T.80s, never had this problem... |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| If you have anti-skate on, zero it back down...Thats usually the culprit when running a rekid backwards. The speeding up is the quartz control of the deck. You have to get used to that and adapt your beatmatching to compensate for it. |
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| PoisonJam19 |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
If you have anti-skate on, zero it back down...Thats usually the culprit when running a rekid backwards. The speeding up is the quartz control of the deck. You have to get used to that and adapt your beatmatching to compensate for it. |
T.80s don't have anti-skate. |
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| IntegraR0064 |
| quote: | Originally posted by PoisonJam19
T.80s don't have anti-skate. |
Exactly, straight arm turntables don't have anti-skate, although it is a good suggestion if you were having this problem with a s arm turntable. |
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| Existo22 |
| I would suggest increasing the weight on the tonearm :) |
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