Tonearm Balancing

[jelps]

Recently got 1210's and I've just been learning how to mix. Ever since I've had them 1 of them has been working fine and I've been able to catch snares etc. However the other one, when trying to do the same thing it just skips. For example I'll catch a snare then when I release it it's on a different part of the song altogether. Now I know very little but i recognised that it could be the tonearm so I set about balancing them both since it hasn't been done since I picked them up originally. Followed it to this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hgdyWXU ... r_embedded and now everything is just a lot worse as now they're just as bad as each other.

Any help would be greatly appreciated... I thought learning to mix would be fustrating not balancing the tonarm...

[tripaddict]

qbert does a really good tut ... and he's the man when it comes to turntables

[Project_B]

The maker of your needles should supply a optimal weight for their needle, for example my ortofons have a tracking range of 3 to 5 grams, 4 being the optimum. I run mine at 3 to reduce wear on my timecoded vinyls, and they dont slip.


So first of all you need to find the optimal tracking weight.

Then unscrew the counter weight on your deck untill the arm is balanced equally. I.E: the needle is in the air and the arm is horizontal.

Then turn the ring (not the weight) till it reads zero.

Then turn the whole weight in untill you reach the correct number of grams. Each number on the ring is weight in grams.

Hope this helps.


Here we go, perhaps a better description than me

http://www.thomann.de/gb/onlineexpert_172_2.html

[jelps]

Cheers for help, insanely appreciated. I just wasn't turning the weight along with the ring when setting the weight. Sounds and plays like a dream now thanks...