If there is a turntable in front of you, it needs setting up properly or it will skip, wear your records and sound thin. The tonearm, the counterweight, the stylus and the cartridge, done in the order that makes sense.

By the end of this course you will be able to

Set the tonearm and counterweight so the needle tracks correctly
Fit a cartridge and stylus to a headshell without damaging either
Recognise the symptoms of a badly set-up deck

Lessons

Setting the tonearm

Duration: 4:08
Setting the arm on a Technics SL1200

Duration: 5:27
Setting the stylus

Duration: 1:52
Fitting the cartridge to the headshell

Duration: 9:14
Vinyl mode and the centre LED on a CD deck

Optional Duration: 2:51

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.