turntable screwed

[decypher]

dammit! :finger:

I get these nice shure whitelabels.. set em up perfect, break em in a bit.. they sound great and i scratch a little on the right turntable.. and they track very nicely... goto my left turntable and the needle is jumping all over, so im like wtf!.. i let it break in more, still jumping.. they are both set up exactly the same.. so at first im like great i got a dud, but i switch up the needles.. and it turns out its the left turntable that is screwing things up.. i research further and find out loose tonearms can cause this.. and i remember back to when my drunk idiot friend slapped my tonearm by accident when i wasen't looking... grrrrrr stupid people, think turntables are toys and screwing things over... anyone know any good textfiles for finding out whats wrong as well as fixing my tonearm?

[Tux]

try increasing the weight on the counterweight.. or if you already tried that just buy a new tonearm i guess..

[decypher]

nah someone told me its cuz the tonearm has become loosened, and i noticed that the base of it where u set the height of the tonearm, wiggles up and down, where the right turntable doesen't... im guessing thats where the prob is.. just need to know what i need to tighten.. and i can't bring it in for a pro to do it cuz i got no cash

[Mr.Wrong]

shitty deal kam
so who did it an when do we beat them?

[decypher]

it was that ben johnson fucker.. he was all like "ooohhh turntables... i bet i can scratch pretty good, im musical" so he starts grabbing the record and spinning it back and forth.. and then he backCue's it, and i guess he was thinking that the tonearm is sorta like transparent and ur hands just go right through it cuz he didn't stop kept backing till he smacked it hard.. and the tonearm flew up and down side to side ... i found some textfiles on fixing the tonearm.. but man still pisses me off

[Sykonee]

You should mix using reel-to-reels. Save you lots of headaches!

[Colin_Cox]

Sounds like you're on to something with the tonearm problem...

But it might be worth double-checking the needles again. When I bought my Shure Whitelabels, brand new, one of them was fucked right out of the box. It took me a while to figure it out, but I returned it and the guy told me they have had a few complaints about faulty Shure Whitelabels. The replacement needle worked perfectly right away.

[stringbeans]

maybe there's a screw you can tighten?

[Akeel]

i know how to fix it.


there's a screw on the top of the tonearm base assembly, loosen it first then tighten it down until its sitting the same as your other deck.

[stringbeans]

im so smrt