Stanton Str8 150 Scratch Turntables with DJ Tutor

A lot of people say vinyl's dead, well it isn't. It's just not really sold as much as it used to but you can still pick up vinyl turntables. This one here the Stanton STR8-150 33 also 45 also 78 start and break so by setting these you can let the turntable itself Pick up speed very slowly. Once it's at its correct speed, you can let it slow down very slowly by pressing start-stop. Alternatively, it will start up pretty much straight away and stop pretty much straight away as well. Okay, reverse key lock also here, pitch select. So we can go from plus or minus 8, 25 to plus 50. Bring it up and if you want it really fast, go 78. Right, you'll notice as well, straight arm. A lot of scratch turntablists like straight arm but a lot of vinyl DJs who like to mix prefer the S-shaped arm. Right, let's just have a close look at how the styli...

The cartridge has been set. You'll notice that's off centre. Well, again what you can do with a straight arm tonearm is you can turn the cartridge very slightly so it will be near enough exactly the same angle as an S-shaped tonearm. So in essence you've got the benefits of an S-shaped tonearm and a straight arm because if you want to you could just align that so it's perfectly aligned. Alternatively, as we've done here, set it so it's pretty much going to be the same angle as an S shape.

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