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Ortofon Concord Q.BERT Stylus For Mix & scratching

Lesson Intermediate Stage 6: Performance Technique November 2009

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Alright folks, a bit of a demo on these guys here. They're from a company called Autofon. They're known as Concord Cartridges and these guys are the Concord DJ Q-Bert. Ideal for mixing and scratching purposes. Right, very quickly as well, people are always asking me about how much weight you should set the cartridge for. In other words, how much weight should be the downforce on the needle there? Now again, you need to always look at the box. Make sure that you get the correct weight. Too little and the needle could jump quite a lot. Too much, what will happen is over a short period of time there's more of a chance of you damaging and also ruining the styli and therefore in turn you're going to get less sound quality. Now these guys here are known as spherical

The tracking force is 3 grams and the frequency response is anything from 20 hertz, which is the low bassy sound, up to 18 kilohertz, which will give you the high frequencies. Thanks for watching, practice and enjoy.

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