Stylius-wise, most companys give the spec and recomendations for the needles on their website. Find them and reset your weights/tonearm etc...and see if it still happens.

i think the weight is fine. i figured it may be the anti-skate, but it doesnt seem to change anything if i mess with it.

what confuses me more is that it was fine the last time i used it... maybe having a slight tilt on the floor was throwing it off?

Weight and Anit-Skate settings vary on the type of stylus/ cartridge in use.

What carts are you using man??

SHURE White Lables

From what I can tell you dont know who the anti skate works. If your scratching I would suggest to never use the anti-skate.

To see the anti-skate work move the weight adjustment on the back of the tonearm all the way the back until the tonearm floats. Now use the anti skate. Notice how it pushes the tonearm back towards the start of the record. I guess back in the days people had problems with the needle skipping forward. When you scratch it move the stylus slightly back and forth with the movement of the record. With the antiskate your adding even more pressure to the side of then stylus. Thats why your stylus moves even more.

so with anti-skate at zero it wont have any pressure to move it side to side? i thought that with a tone arm with and curve in it that the design made it have pull toward the outside, so anti skate was to counter balance it so that it would not pull and it would just follow the grooves.

so to make so it stay straight and not go side to side i figured that anti-skate had to be adjusted

I bought White Labels a couple years ago and replaced them with Shure M44-7's pretty quickly. The White Labels just aren't for scratching. Sorry!

Backing up the last guy, I've read the white labels are great needles, good responce, sencitive etc... just not suitable for scratching.

at least they look cool...

still though the stylius shouldnt be going left and right when i am scratching...

is the sound skipping or is it just rockin back and forth in the groove? I think a little bit of wiggle is ok because it is in a groove. remember, as long as u stay in the groove of the record there shouldn't be a problem.

Have you checked the screws that hold the tone arm in place? There's three of them and they do get loose every now and then.

I have not checked to see if they are loose, i move that system around a lot too, so thats a good idea.

Mr Marbles, I use relative mode, so no skipping, no gaps like it is leaving contact with the groove either.

make sure the height is set to the proper level

"Have you checked the screws that hold the tone arm in place? There's three of them and they do get loose every now and then."

This might fix my problem to (it's the same thing almost to the carts i'm using). How tight should they be, and are you talking about the three screws that look like this?
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The dots below the weight are where the screws are, and the * is where the third one is?
Can you guys read that diagram? th + is supposed to be the needle...yeah...

piss!! it messed up and took the spaces out.

whatever

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Damnit i give up on the diagram thing.
the top is the weight
the bottom is the needle.
look at your table, youll figure it out.
fuck.

moving side to side is normal. check sixxx's videos about the m447 23 degree angle...


mounted normaly, it will move side to side. this is normal.
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mounted at 23 degree angle, it moved up and down.
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^^^Briguy, that was a big help. i'll stop worrying that something is wrong. maybe from where i stand it is just easier to see if move on one TT than the other