For just plain listening this is important if you want the right sound. A stereo record have right and left channel on each side of the inner walls of the groove. The centrifugal force pulls the stylus in to the center of the record. This means there will be more force on one of the walls so you get more sound from one speaker. To fix this, the horizontal counter force must be set to equalize the centrifugal force vs. down force. When this is equalized you get correct sound from both speakers.
My Audio-Technica CN5625AL cartridge kept backwards skipping on some rougher records, and I knew it must have had something to do with the antiskating, so I referred to your video for help. I followed your instructions carefully, and I'm happy to report my skipping woes are over! Thank you so much Jon for the help!
I have done all of this and the needle seems to skip occasionally especially when I am cueing vinyl in or spinning the middle to speed up the song what could the reason for this be?
Yo mate, the anti skating should be set at the same value as you have your counter weight set at. So if you are tracking at 3grams you set the anti skating at 3.
I would like to thank you for helping me setup my tonearm, it is something I did not know how to do before, or even thought about it, your very smart and it is easy now, I had thought it was hard to do. I have more then one turntable. One is from england, transcriptors, I guess the instructions is for more/most tonearms, I guess?. Thanks so much. I like your vids.
Great video I have a Kam DDX 750 turntable but I think my spring has broken so I need to try to mend it but I don't want to make it worse I just need to no how to take it apart but I can't seem to find any videos on here whatsoever
This theory, that a tone arm should be motionless on a groove-less spinning disc is absolutely incorrect according to a phonograph technician I spoke with at length. Actually doing as this theory advocates can cause irreparable damage to the record and stylus. Actually, Anti-Skate is supposed to add a very small (slight) amount of outward force (toward the edge of record) DEFINITELY NOT CAUSING THE TONEARM TO BE MOTIONLESS. With the proper amount of Anti-Skate applied, the TONEARM will still move toward the center of the groove-less disc but at a slightly slower rate of speed compared to the slightly faster inward speed of TONEARM movement if no Anti-Skate was applied.
That shouldn't be happening. Readjust your vertical tracking force (weight) to what is recommended by your cartridge manufacturer, and then make sure your turntable is PERFECTLY LEVEL. Now try adjusting your anti-skate again.
What if the anti-skate adj doesnt correct the arm moving outwards? My sl1200 wich I've dusted off, moves the tonearm outwards when I balance the arm in the air (counterwright set to when the tonearm cart is balanced horizontally in air). When I let go of the arm it moves outward with antiskate at zero. Moving antiskate a notch wont improve... Thanks.
Antiskate should only be used for playback or recording purposes. I have found that If your scratching and cuing the needle tends to jump out of the groove with antiskate on.
just got a big 960. worked a week then started skating bad couldn't adjust it to save my life turns out spring broke off the anti skate. any idea how to fix? not sure what size spring or even how to put a new one in.
Couldn't you work there same way as with riding pitch finding the correct spot. While the needle is on the record and record is spinning you notice it drives to one direction while this happens turn the skating so you eventually get it to stay still?
...and for DJ's I guess it is extra important since they scratch the record back and forth, so with no equalizing of weight and forces, the stylus skates all over the place... I tried to reply to Dwaas88, but that didn't work :P
thanks for the vid but still i dont understand what the use is of anti skating.. will needle stay on the same position when there is no track? Why should you want that? when you play tracks that is quite usseless? Im a noob though so what do you win with this anti skating?
I think he forgot to instruct you to back off the weight at the rear of the tonearm. When I have the correct tracking force set the needle will always drop straight down onto the record no matter what the anti-skate is set to.
hey mate! I have a problem with gemini tt1000! When I bought it I balanced the all, but found himself in the Issue will ba anti skate my work at all, and when you scratch a little tone arm moves, but nothing terrible. whether it is by default done or ..? Thanks in advance
And my collection consists of about 1700 records. Some by artists such as... Robert Hood, Jeff Mills, Dj Sneak, Cajmere, Plastikman, Ian Pooley and so on. I'd rather die than loose all these amazing records. So if you know any way in which i can get my height adjustment to move again. It would be much appreciated man.
Managed to get my left 1210 setup correctly for anti-skating to the needle doesnt move on the blank record (had to turn it to 3), however I cant get the right deck to do the same, even on 3 it still moves slowly from middle to end but quite slowly, Im guessing theres nothing I can do as the anti skating is maxed out unless someone can give me any other tips. Both decks are sat flat on a Sefour Deck Stand. Anybody got any ideas?
Agreed. Also, look at the way q-bert basically FORCED that counterweight into position like that, in his video. That poor Technics :( (: Anyone who turns a counterweight, points to the scale and says "I don't even know what the hell that does", and then proceeds to turn the counterweight the wrong way around, has no business setting up turntables.
I know this post is from 6 months ago, but I figured I'd reply anyway. It sounds like your turntable is not level. Use a bubble level, to help you fix this.
i assume if you put it anywhere on the record it should stay in the same place because i have 1 deck that if you put it at near the start or finish it moves back to the center of the record and if you turn the anti skate it moves back to the start but never moves to the finish, i did change the tone arm on 1 deck so maybe its this one, any fixes for this?
@curtis8516 omg i love that song haha, fleetwood mac is amazing, im only 21 so i have memories of listening to it with my dad in the car as a kid, great song!
By ear. You start with zero anti-skate. Play a short clip, preferably with a female voice that rises in tone. Listen for her voice as it rises - it should move from one speaker to the other... which is not what you want. Increase AS slightly, then play it again. When the voice is fixed between the speakers and does not waver, you have it set correctly. This is how the experts do it (e.g., Helmut Brinkmann, Fremer, and many others).
I get really paranoid when i use my Technics 1210 mk2's. i know if your anti scating and shit isn't set properly, it can damage vinyl. This is a problem for me as i have a hyper hyper rare collection of old house and techno. On one of my turntables, the height adjustment is stuck on the highest it can go. It literally won't budge at all. Can it damage my record if it is that high up. ? this is a huge worry for me as i'm only 16 and don't have the cash to replace this expensive shit.
@Sub Fuzion: it depend on your perception, If you don't care about sound quality then it will be just fine, and they are a lot of missinformation out in the internet, that to mush tracking force will damage the grove of your record faster, and that his not truth, unless it his way over exagerated weight, someone on RU-vid did a test, and did on puprose to go way over the max out amount to see what a damage grove sound like, the music still plays on a damage grove, the sound quality goes down, by having more surface sound.
@Sub fuzion: also if you have a collection that you want to play, then you play them ,because no one actually knows how long the quality last, because people can claim on thing, and the other person can claim another thing, even if they end-up doing the same thing to their record, because even testing it scientificly would not work, because diffrent record as diffrent quality runing time, and sometimes it can be the tourntable itself that start to play in bad quality, for example: this his just an example it did not happen to someone, but it could happen to someone. here his the example: the Record player itself his old, and the user does not relize the bad sound quality his from the Record player, and it his a bad sound quality so he thinks it his the Vinyl so he snap the Vinyl in half and toss it in the trash, he go and buy a new copy, that his in good condition, and plays it on his Record player, bad sound quality, so he relize, that he snap his old Vinyl for nothing, because it was the record player, not the Vinyl Record.
This might be me being a dick, but isn't adding "I" to the end if a word meant to imply plurality? How many, styli, or "needles", or "styluses" are on your turntable? If more than one, that's why your records may sound strange.. :/
