when you guys sample stuff...

do you ever look at the soundwaves or note the meters indicating that your sample is panned even though you haven't panned at all? I'm recording an alkaholiks song off of wax and I noticed that everything was slightly panned to one side. So I took off the Whitelabel and S-arm (numark TT...interchangable tone arms) and threw on my M44G with straight arm and recorded the same thing.

The Whitelabel with S-arm threw the pan off about 1 or 2 percent to the right...no biggie, but he M44G on straight arm produced a far more visable pan to the left, by about 9%. What the hell...?

i've noticed the same thing, i've got a 1200 technics table and everything i record comes out panned to one side. only thing is i know what my probem is i need a need needly stylus coz mines bent to the shit house and its about to break any day now.

i dont think that helps your situation but its my 2 cents on this thread.

peace

Could be to do with centripetal force, which pulls the tone arm towards the centre of the record, thereby applying more force to one side of the needle than the other. Try adjusting the anti-skate. Don't know if this will help but it's worth a try

I think my preamps are a bit wasted on my current dj mixer. Everything comes out slightly panned to the right. So since I only use one deck these days, I have plugged in the left channel of my turntable into phono1 and the right channel into phono2 of my mixer. I check it before sampling and pan everything a bit.

ReckOne wrote:I think my preamps are a bit wasted on my current dj mixer. Everything comes out slightly panned to the right. So since I only use one deck these days, I have plugged in the left channel of my turntable into phono1 and the right channel into phono2 of my mixer. I check it before sampling and pan everything a bit.

i have that problem with my mixer but it's about 8yrs now.yes the preamp is going out . thats usually the problem try a newe mixer

what type of mixer you got?

why you change the tone arm? i would say that doin that would give you the problems your running into ,ONLY CHANGE WHEN ONE BREAKS,thats my opinion.

white label needles color your sound highly thats why it's a white label needle.
check your wires on your cart, see if the wires are on properly,
can you try to pan the sound a bit to the side thats more heavy sounding.?

Funny you bring this up, I was always noticing my level meters in the sample screen were 'panned.' I trouble shot it until I verified it was due to something up with my Numark TTX I have a straight arm on it. Anyways I unscrewed the arm made sure all the leads on the cartridge were tight, and blew off some of the dust and grime on there, reconnected it all and the levels were even.

Let me know if you have any success with this on your TTX, I'm curious to know if I just got lucky.

I think you just got lucky, I might not've done the same thing though. Did you actually take those 4 leads off and clean them? Maybe I'll try putting the whitelabel on the straight arm and see what happens.

I've been using the straight arm for scratching and the S for sampling

Housemaster wrote:I think you just got lucky, I might not've done the same thing though. Did you actually take those 4 leads off and clean them? Maybe I'll try putting the whitelabel on the straight arm and see what happens.

I've been using the straight arm for scratching and the S for sampling

the S tone arm is better for scratching the tonearm is curved let tention on the scratch oppose to the straight arm.

Crazy, I thought I read somewhere along time ago that the straight was better. Come to think of it though, you don't ever see a DJ scratching with a straight

not true, iv'e got mates who swear by straights for scratching -

jacko wrote:not true, iv'e got mates who swear by straights for scratching -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdRJbdYDws

this is what i have been doin with striaght arms since the 80's for the same reason he explains. but i dont have any more striaght arms ,i havent used one in about 20yrs.
if you notice a turntable fromt he 80's or later with a straight arm they come with a sort of slant like this dude mentions but these neew TT's that have come out in the last15yrs have beenso cheaply made and made for mass production.

dj e.d.e wrote:

jacko wrote:not true, iv'e got mates who swear by straights for scratching -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdRJbdYDws

this is what i have been doin with striaght arms since the 80's for the same reason he explains. but i dont have any more striaght arms ,i havent used one in about 20yrs.

Ha...I've never seen someone angle the cartridge on a straight tonearm before

But I hear people doing it frequently on S-shaped ones. Which kinda makes no sense at all.

_Stilo_ wrote:

dj e.d.e wrote:

jacko wrote:not true, iv'e got mates who swear by straights for scratching -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdRJbdYDws

this is what i have been doin with striaght arms since the 80's for the same reason he explains. but i dont have any more striaght arms ,i havent used one in about 20yrs.

Ha...I've never seen someone angle the cartridge on a straight tonearm before

But I hear people doing it frequently on S-shaped ones. Which kinda makes no sense at all.

ROOKIES

dj e.d.e wrote:

ReckOne wrote:I think my preamps are a bit wasted on my current dj mixer. Everything comes out slightly panned to the right. So since I only use one deck these days, I have plugged in the left channel of my turntable into phono1 and the right channel into phono2 of my mixer. I check it before sampling and pan everything a bit.

i have that problem with my mixer but it's about 8yrs now.yes the preamp is going out . thats usually the problem try a newe mixer

what type of mixer you got?

I just have a Technics SH-DJ1200 battle mixer. Faders are terrible but I love the sound. I was gonna check out maybe the Rodec scratchbox but I don't think it'll sound as warm as my old Technics mixer. And my Vestax 07 is way too thin and metallic sounding for sampling...

ReckOne wrote:

dj e.d.e wrote:

ReckOne wrote:I think my preamps are a bit wasted on my current dj mixer. Everything comes out slightly panned to the right. So since I only use one deck these days, I have plugged in the left channel of my turntable into phono1 and the right channel into phono2 of my mixer. I check it before sampling and pan everything a bit.

i have that problem with my mixer but it's about 8yrs now.yes the preamp is going out . thats usually the problem try a newe mixer

what type of mixer you got?

I just have a Technics SH-DJ1200 battle mixer. Faders are terrible but I love the sound. I was gonna check out maybe the Rodec scratchbox but I don't think it'll sound as warm as my old Technics mixer. And my Vestax 07 is way too thin and metallic sounding for sampling...

use a better needle the 07 does thin out the sound.