technics 1200mk2 not picking up vocals on vinyl problem

this has been happening to me lately as well, exactly as you described. ive just been too busy working to get around to fixing it

Direct vocal cancellation from a turntable could be useful.

Coz wrote:Direct vocal cancellation from a turntable could be useful.

Of course, I had this experience in the 90s with a CD player connected to broken RCA inputs on my amp. In that case it was Zapp - More bounce (you should listen to this song with the phase cancellation on. really nice!). This opened a brand new way of listening INTO the music for me. I modified my headphones with a switch so I could turn the cancellation on and off. Helped me in "understanding" music more and more. But now you can get this with any audioeditor and dont need "hardwarebased" center-cancellation.

The problem here is IMO a wrong connection of the mini cables like pound said or broken cables (should check the groundcables of left and right) or a broken solderpoint (signal path grounding) on the PCB (indide the tonearm base)

peace

thx wrote:it never happened to you Juke and if yes how do you solve the problem? do you use an antistatic spray or what?

I have heard from friends and on other forums that people have had trouble with Ortofon's not making good connection in the tone arms. I've had zero problems and never used any sprays.
I've been through 4 sets of Ortofon stylus' but still use the same 2 Nightclub headshells since '97.

alcoloic wrote:could someone tell me what's the point of licking the headshell contacts ?

To moisten the headshell contacts to have better conductivity to the tone arm contacts.

I use the Ortofon too (15years now) and never had contact problems. Just because spit is liquid, doesn't mean it clean things like water. It works for a moment cause spit conduct electricity but what is on the contacts when all the liquid of the spit is gone?? paticles of burgers, steak, eggs whatever you ate.


peace

alcoloic wrote:could someone tell me what's the point of licking the headshell contacts ?

There is none, don't do it!

peterpiper wrote:what is on the contacts when all the liquid of the spit is gone?? paticles of burgers, steak, eggs whatever you ate.
peace

of course
i use ortofon stylus from 2004 and i always had some problems with the contacts not only with my turntables, almost with every turntable i've mounted the heads on...
yesterday i've cleaned the contacts with a spray and it seems to work good now
anyway thanks to all for the tips!
peace