Ortofon Concord Concord Scratch. Turntabalist DJ

Alright folks, another demo I suppose, bit of a tutorial and also a bit of information for you on Needles Cartridges Starlight. In this video we're going to look at these guys here. Got them from Dex.co.uk. These are the Concord Scratch Autophon or sometimes they're known as Autophon Pinks. Now very quickly, on the end of that needle just there, you can just about see it before it goes blurred, is a spherical diamond. Also we can get elliptical as well. But the reason they've got a spherical on here is because these are better for turntabless DJs and scratch DJs. Alright, why? Well, spherical is more of a round needle right at the end of it. In other words, that diamond is slightly rounded at the bottom as opposed to the elliptical which has got more of a point on it.

Now if you think about it, if you're a scratch turntablist, you're going to be moving that piece of vinyl backwards and forwards continually. The diamond is going to be inside the groove and it's going to be moving backwards and forwards. Now people say, will it knacker the record? Well eventually it's going to anyway. You're going to start to lose the quality of sound. But if you think about it, if you've got a point, a sharp point, going through the groove continually, it's going to wear the record out far quicker than something like that which is spherical. Because it's round. Now, admittedly, you may not get perfect sound quality, or I reiterate, maybe the sound quality won't be as good as the elliptical, but believe me, your records will last a lot longer. Now what I've done, I've got one on here. Now they say the recommended tracking weight on these guys is 4 grams. Now what I'm going to try and do is copy and paste a whole bunch of text that I found on these guys.

And put it in the description. I'll stick a couple of links in there as well. So what I'm going to do is just play them. By the way, it's quite difficult to get the proper audio because at the end of the day you're hearing it from that speaker into the camera and then through the web out your PC. But again, it's like any sort of needle cartridge styline. It's no good bunging the thing on and then trying to do a bit of turntablism because you've got... To make sure that everything is set correctly, I have done a video on that, setting the tonearm. What I will do as well is on this video, not straight away as soon as it's uploaded, but theoretically if you're watching this within 10 minutes after it being uploaded or in two or three days time, I should have a link underneath this video showing you how to set your tonearm up. Alright? So a quick video on these guys. I will be doing more soon. Practice and enjoy. There you go.

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