Yes thank you all for the information and link. It all makes sense to me and now that I know, I won't fret any longer about it....
Brock
Brock
Cartridge alignment question/problem
I have noticed on a couple of turntables, a few different arms and cartridges the following phenomena...during quiet portions of the recording (either during transition between tracks of transition from quiet to loud) that I can hear faintly in the background a "preview" of what the record will play on the next revolution. Basically I think what is happening is that the cartridge is somehow detecting the grooves in the next innermost rotation. I suspect that I have some sort of alignment problem but am not so sure given the fact that I heard this on various setups of mine...which of course could mean that I have been consistently wrong. I have used jigs and protractors etc on each.
Any thoughts from the learned on what could be causing this?
Thanks
Brock
Any thoughts from the learned on what could be causing this?
Thanks
Brock
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@folkfreak What you are hearing is known as "print through" or "pre-echo" and is endemic to analog recording. Some of it is in the original tape (hence the name print through) often heard as a full echo of all frequencies, and other sources can be from the way the grooves are cut -- seeThanks for the link, very interesting! I've noticed this long time ago, especially in the headphones. |
What you are hearing is known as "print through" or "pre-echo" and is endemic to analog recording. Some of it is in the original tape (hence the name print through) often heard as a full echo of all frequencies, and other sources can be from the way the grooves are cut -- see http://www.pressingvinyl.co.uk/index.php/2015/03/causes-pre-echo-groove-echo/ No amount of setup adjustment will make it go away as it is part of the record |
I think what you are hearing is "print through" from the master tape. According to Wikipedia "
Print-through is a category of noise caused by contact transfer of
signal patterns from one layer of tape to another." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print-through). If so your cartridge is in the clear, and there is nothing you can do about it. |