RE: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-16 Thread Bud Keith
Shields Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control? Yeah, just find a song that you're framiliar with on CD, then hopefully you have that same song on vinal. And then plug a pair of phones in to your CD player, and only use 1

Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-15 Thread Dale E. Heltzer
Hi, I've obtained a turntable that will play 33-1/3, 45-, and 78-RPM records for the purpose of transferring old recordings to music CD. The turntable has a pitch control for fine-tuning the speed. I don't have perfect pitch, and I can't use the visual cues to set the speed properly. Has someone

Re: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-15 Thread Roger Fordham
A possible solution is: 1 Buy a tuning fork pitched at A440. 2 Get yourself a piano recording recorded on a modern piano, which is concert-pitched at A440. It would help you if the key of the piece is also in A, and also that it's slow. Such a recording might be the one by Sviatoslav

Re: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-15 Thread Kevin Shields
Yeah, just find a song that you're framiliar with on CD, then hopefully you have that same song on vinal. And then plug a pair of phones in to your CD player, and only use 1 ear. Then plug another pair of phones in to your amp, and use the one ear from the second pair of phones. Then try and

Re: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-15 Thread W. Nick Dotson
I have a JQC Quartz-Lock turntable with pitch control, and there are detents in the control, with 10 steps above and below center pitch. There wasn't any indication as to whether or not the control was detented or not, but it is always possible that a recording is off-pitch, so these things

Re: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-15 Thread W. Nick Dotson
Have the flu and can't type or concentrate, that should've been JVC QL-8. Nick On Sat, 15 May 2004 13:44:09 -0500, W. Nick Dotson wrote: I have a JQC Quartz-Lock turntable with pitch control, and there are detents in the control, with 10 steps above and below center pitch. There wasn't any

RE: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control?

2004-05-15 Thread Dale E. Heltzer
AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setting a turn-Table Pitch Control? Yeah, just find a song that you're framiliar with on CD, then hopefully you have that same song on vinal. And then plug a pair of phones in to your CD player, and only use 1 ear. Then plug another pair of phones