On my old decks (sound lab) the red light and dots were a godsend. The
O% point could be adjusted with the turn of a screw. The 0% seemed to
move a lot by itself so to 're-zero' the pitch I'd set the pitch to
zero, turn the screw and watch the dots until they stayed still, if the
dots moved one way too fast, other way too slow.
I think the big dots should stay still at 45 and the small at 33 1/3
(but it may be the other way round, it's been a while since I've had to
worry about that).
--Mike
Neil Wallace wrote:
Its just because the speed of the turntable varies slightly and so the
dots are used to tell when it is going at exactly 33 1/3rm or 45rpm
:-----Original Message-----
:From: Langsman, Marc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
:Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:10 PM
:To: 'Michael Lees'; seth redmond
:Cc: 313@hyperreal.org
:Subject: RE: (313) Random question about platter dots (was re: best
decks)
:
:
:> The only problem with touching the plate edge is the little dimples
:
:super tangential random question here - but the dots on technics are
meant
:to indictae what pitch things are going at by which row is stationary
:(because of the strobe effect of the red light) ... has anyone actually
:ever
:used this functionality or is there any other useful purpose ?
:would be handy to know as Ive thought they were a bit redundant
(although
:it
:looks quite cool! )
:
:peace,
:Marc
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