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Left Side Crash Froze Turntable. Now plays in reverse

Product
Scratch Live
Version
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Hardware
Ortofon | Serato S-120
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dj reel 2reel 12:11 AM - 14 March, 2009
Thursday March 12TH my scratch on the left froze. every track i put on sounded like warp speed.I can only get the table to play when I put it in reverse plugins. I still finished the night. don't want to be some where big and have this problem. First time this has happen to me. can this be fixed. can't rock like this. HELP
AlexRage 12:23 AM - 14 March, 2009
sounds like a hardware issue. the typical diagnostics are:

try the working turntable/cdj on the broken side? if it works, than its your turntable.
if no turntable/cdj works on that side, than it's the box.
Laz219 5:23 AM - 14 March, 2009
What mode where you using?
Bassick 5:31 AM - 14 March, 2009
You have most likely lost one of the channels on the left deck. Go to set up to see what side you lost. You can do this by playing a track and watching the horizontal or vertical line. While playing a track and in the setup menu. Pull out either the RED or WHITE cable from the turntable to see which side you have lost.

Try each step to see if the problem persists on the left deck or transfers. If it persists, revert the step to the normal setting;
Swap the RCA cables of the turntables first (red to white and white to red).
Swap the inputs of the turntables themselves.
Next, try the RCA cables from the scratch live box to the mixer. (TTM57 move to next step).
Swap your needles.
dj reel 2reel 1:26 PM - 14 March, 2009
thank you gents; I changed RCA cables red to white, white to red deck plays normal now. you guys are life savers. Glad to have you in my corner. Time to get busy. DJ Reel
Bassick 8:41 PM - 14 March, 2009
Yo R2R... Make sure it was a set up issue and not a needle issue or this will occur again.