i have a numark pt-01. i have a few records that sound awful on it and i don't know why. nothing really sounds amazing on it, but that's expected for the price.
so the records have some pretty high singing that sounds like it's being subjected to some phase cancellation caused by resonance, but it could be also be stereo separation problems. this leads to the whole song sounding like shit. i would chalk it up to resonance in the cheap plastic tonearm, but it seems like that would happen to more records.
are the records fucked? needle gone bad? i know the problem is in the turntable because it doesn't matter which output i use or what i hook it up to (computer speakers, stereo, computer input).
i don't have any other turntables to play the records right now, so i can't really tell if the problem is in the record.
― elan, Friday, 24 August 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)
have you tried listening on headphones? that could rule out some elements of your audio chain.
what are the specific records that sound bad?
those are the only questions I can think of right now...
― sleeve, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)
Go to thrift store, find a better turntable.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 25 August 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)
http://everythingradio.com/NeedlesandCartridges.htm
― gr8080, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)
elan, try new needle. if that doesn't work, well... i used to have similar problems last autumn, when the spatial confines of my room forced me to use the pt-o1 for regular use. hi frequencies are fucked on that thing.
― the table is the table, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)
figured
― elan, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)
the only specific records i can think of off the top of my head are: round one - i'm your brother SIDE A, not the remix logic - celebrate life
― elan, Saturday, 25 August 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)
both with high pitched vox
― elan, Saturday, 25 August 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)
sounds like a stylus problem to me
― akm, Saturday, 25 August 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)
Here's another question.
I recently got new turntables, and happy am I, as they have a key lock feature (which is truly one of the reasons I chose these turntables). But from what I hear (on ILX, and from the turntables themselves) is that the line output (which you need to use for the key lock to work) provides inferior sound quality to the good old phono output. How true is this generally? And if it is, how can I get around it?
Everything is plugged into a pretty old and crappy receiver (which only has a phono output and no aux output, so I was surprised it worked in the first place) and I'm not sure if that'll make a difference, would another receiver be the way to go? I've decided that until then I'll use the phono for listening and line for mixing, but having to change all the wires and knobs is kind of annoying.
Merci beacoup.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)
is a key lock where everything is made to sound in the same key?
― elan, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
if so, it's probably because of the sound card they use for the dsp, in which case i would point out that of course the audio sounds worse because it's already been through two analog/digital conversions when it leaves the turntable.
― elan, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)
Well, I don't think I had the key lock on at the time.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)