this is how i was always looking for the break

Never knew this 😂🙈, interesting👍

I used to press this light on all the time on my dad's record player back in the day. Had no idea why it had that little light until now. Mind BLOWN.

Omg! Thats the coolest thing I've learnt so far. I'd never been tought that you can see the waveform on the record itself!

Considering the industry standard 1200/1210 was originally built with audiophiles in mind, then I'd imagine the light was for locating the beginning of tracks.

As a club DJ during the 80s and 90s this is always how I looked for the breakdown in the track. Not that it really matters today and today’s digital world.

Thank you DigitalDJTips for shinning the light on this! ☉💡☺

yeah, and no time codes can ever replace the look & feel of taking the phono arm with my fingers and placing it where I see with my own eyes that I want to play

It’s the cue lamp to also see the calibration dots

Da Break Down….ribbon in ya head, the break down, get people MED…i kated.

Amazing, it make sense. Thanks for this ❤️

Had turntables for years and didn't know this. I have only just seen the difference with pitch changes against the side of the platter.

It is also strobing to freeze the dots on the side of the platter when running at 0% pitch. When speeding up or slowing down the pitch, this makes you visually see that by the dots moving 😃

Those dust hairs are killing me.

Love this

The day I use a laptop to nix is the day I throw my decks out of the window - NEVER !!!!

Used to use my lights all the time. Very helpful!

Very good 👏🏻🤩

wow, this blow my mind

Phil!!! Missed your voice dude! Learned a ton from you 🙏

that's right.....Love technics still using

Brilliant info!!!

Great info since I didn’t start with Vinyl records👍🏾💯

The light is for rolling a spliff in a dark club and I've been in a lot of clubs

Cool!

Thanks Sir Really Helps Lot 🙏🏻

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Newer turntables are incorporating the strobe light with the target light. Pretty cool.

And for the strobe dots off the platter to show pitch.

This is an aspect of the great character vinyl brings. Unfortunately it also brings huge expense, insane clutter, likely divorce issues and high propensity for addiction. Nothing better than a boxful of new wax😊

It is crazy to think that we ever need to explain this to another DJ. It is sad that technology doesn't evolve to incorporate such knowledge so the older ones have almost a responsability in that process.

There is a popup light on my 1200GR. I only bought it for home use. But it's the best turntable I have ever had!!

Hold the light as it rises up. I’ve seen them fail over time from the quick release.

Hi where do you buy your replacement stylus for these turntables? (Stanton 500 cartridge)

Knew that since the mid 80's lol

TIP FOR LONGER DURATION OF LIGHT: Hold a finger on the light stick to avoid it snapping up when you press the button. Let it come up smoothly and the light will last for decades instead of years.

God i love my 1200s

I always thought it was just to que up songs in a dark club

Where is the beginning of the track?

What 12" single is that?

So that's what its for wth ok nice thx fam

I've always either A. knew my vinyl; or B. used a flashlight lol.

A.ma.zing!!!!

That's been out since the early 80s. Old news.. but thanks for sharing.

Target light

And is guaranteed to fail in time. Well my tables are 1988 models. Give a demo/ talk about replacing the off on knob, if it comes off, and the connecting pin drops. You know it Phil. Oldness. lol

It's called a target light. xx

And the dots tell you what speed it’s going and if it’s holding speed ,one of the dots will look like there not moving which you use the light for too

interesting

It's a pilot light, so you can see what you are doing, that's all it is.

I was taught that that line is to see the fuzzy lines on sides of platter which makes unique pattern line at some certain speed.

nobody told me. I thought it was obvious.

Duh. This is what made CDJ so annoying when they didn't have any wave display when they first came out.

Clean that bloody record!!

Whoever thought of that is genius and def did their research at discos 😆

Christ thought this was obvious

wrong pal that's a strobe and its to check the calibration of the pitch

Can't you clean the turntable before making a video of it?

It was built to see the lable basicly in the dark . The technics sl1200 was built around about 1970 it was built for high audio end home use it became a dj turntable in the late 70s so the pop up light was never really built for dj use as it happened to be their from the beginning!!

This could have been a lot shorter

Another use for that light is to confirm the calibration of your turntable. If you put the pitch at zero the big dot on the platter should appear to not be moving. Positive three on the pitch the dots on the top should appear not to move. positive 6 on the pitch the circle right above should appear not to move. Finally -3 on the pitch the bottom circle on the platter should appear not to move.

I lost my mojo after I sold my technics, invested in some stantons due too budget about 2 years ago, got shit going on in my life, kinda lost interest, any other bedroom djs struggled with motivation in the past

Lol yeah sure

Never use it. 😎

Minced 2005

Another function of this light is the tempo of the record If you at 0 all the dots top middle and bottom ones on plater are spinning together but if you speed up or slow down the record the top ones going the opposite way then the bottom ones and opposite If you set back to 0 all going together again

Those break so easy sadly

Good thing vinyl is going out the window

As above, so below. Waveform light for vinyl. Thats actually super cool. Vinyl DJs arent so anti tech as they try to say they are eh?

Ahh come on, this must be satire, if you own a pro turntable and don't know well God help the dj industry.

that’s not correct. the light‘s purpose is to shine on the dots of the turntable. thus u get a strobe effect in order to tune the rpm of the turntable to the correct speed.

Gelaber

This is not the original use im afraid...(although it can be used for this) The real reason is to see if the plate is spinning at the proper speed. It's called a stroboscope and the big line of dots will appear to stand still when it is playing at exactly 33.3 or 45 rpm.

Real djs don't use lights. LOL. I'm kidding.

Speed