How and where to put the sticker on a toon for a scratch

0:00 In other words, how do you put them?

A lot of people have asked me how do you put those little stickers on the records when you want to do cutting and scratching. In other words, how do you put them? Where do you find the right place to put them so you know where to put the needle exactly in the right place? Well if you imagine that's a record. I know it looks a bit bizarre but a record basically is a groove in a piece of vinyl that's in a spiral ever decreasing circles. Now if you imagine that there is one of those stickers that they put on. Now, can you notice it's half moon shape? There is a reason for that, OK? Now then, I will show you something in brief here, very quickly. If you can imagine now we're looking at the grooves of a record and some guy has come along and put that piece of paper in that position. Now, can you see it is literally right at the top of the beginning of a groove, at the very top. Now, the reason for that is simply this.

0:56 Styli, circular bits, bits paper

If you imagine here, my styli was coming along now and I was trying to find the beginning of that groove there. If my styli was to hit this part here, because of the curve of that piece of paper it would automatically sit then exactly onto that groove. That's why more than likely you'll see them having circular bits of paper. If you've got square or oblong put circular bits of paper on and it's so much easier. So if you imagine now say like You've just missed that one groove by one turn, so back or forwards and as soon as your styli hits here it will then skip straight over and go straight onto that part there. That's why they use pieces of paper. Now how do you actually get them in that position? It is quite difficult because what you have to do is you have to first of all find that position, put the needle on the record

2:16 Underneath underneath, needle

And make sure you've got that sound. You do not need the turntable on, you can touch it manually just with your hand. Once you've found that particular point, then it's a very awkward time whereby you have to get the little sticky piece of paper and just very carefully put it just the other side of the styli. In other words, there's the styli there, okay? And there, the needle is there, and then I would fit the piece of paper just to the side of where the needle is. Not underneath it, because if you put it underneath or try to go underneath, that's actually where you want the scratch to start. It has to be on the side, OK? So there you go. That is theoretically how they do it. Bearing in mind though, if you use an oval piece of paper like that, all that will happen, like I said,

DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor They manually put the needle on that particular point and if they're out by half a turn or whatever, all they've got to do is move it back and forwards until they get to that point and bang their straight in. Once again, I hope I've been of help and enjoy.

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