How to Calibrate Pitch Fader for Technics1200 || DJ Color TV

Do your turntables play ad different speeds even thought the pitch is at the same dial? Then you need to calibrate them. Its fast and easy. It should only take about 10 minutes, and anyone can do it. So, watch and learn.

[@davejg3963]

Thanks for this mate. I had planned on taking my 1210s into the shop assuming my pitch faders were fucked. This video solved my problem in less than 10 minutes. You're a legend!!!

[@izzzzzz6]

First you want to do the quartz lock disable mod (remove orange wire from pitch fader connector (2nd in from the left, use a pin to remove it and then insulate and hide it out of the way) where it meets main board under platter and cut one end of the resistor R209 closest to TP17 on the main board under the platter). Then recalibrate. Try setting the zero adjust potentiometer on the board with the pitch fader to 2.4Kohms (while fader is in the zero position) instead of 2.7. Now, under platter cover adjust top strobe dot to be still at +6 with the blue plastic pitch potentiometer on the main board. Now go back and check zero strobe dot in zero position. with bottom cover still removed over hang the corner with the pitch fader part off the side of a table. Now while it is playing, from beneath adjust the small potentiometer on the pitch fader board till you achieve zero on the strobe while fader is in the zero position. This is the fastest way to disable quartz lock and set it up with the new calibration.

[@andrewcarpenter3339]

Thanks alot mate very much appreciated this sorted problem out. Thought I was going mad with the mixing being so difficult than before ha! Nice one!👍

[@plantificationpodcast]

Great tutorial. so what if the tempo changes drastically when set at 2% + and how do I fix that?

[@abeparnaabeparna]

Very useful. Thanks for sharing !!!

[@giuseppetonziello6933]

I should try! Thank you very much

[@djmac1873]

Hi thanks for the video , super helpful . I did everything : at zero is perfect , at plus six is perfect but at minus 3,3 dots are still moving ... what can I do ? Thanks a lot

[@gusgus1816]

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[@assistantto007]

Wrong wrong wrong .

[@marcoleivadj]

When i move to +0.5 i get 0... in 0 pos. i get 0 too , what could be happen ?

[@wreignone]

Sometimes they can drift over time from usage. They just need a little tlc, (Pitch callibraton) .The main thing is they stay locked, Which even on my old ones they do. I have an older one that was always out by about half a %. But when mixing it was still ok. Its just something to be aware of while doing so.These days I would callibrate.

[@DrGeta666]

The dead spot on the pitch isn’t controlled by that calibration knob. You need to open up the back and look at the pitch fader. It has its own knob for adjusting the 0. You don’t have to play around with it it’s easy with a multimeter. Just measure the orange and brown wires and adjust the knob until you have exactly 2.7ohms on the multimeter. That’s the offical 0 position.

[@izzzzzz6]

Read my main comment. People don't like beat mixing around the zero mark as you could not disable quartz lock on the older turntables. You can disable it meaning it won't force a quartz lock when close to the zero position. Every time you come into or out of the quartz lock zone the pitch will glitch in the wrong direction for a short part of the travel. I wrote how to do the mod and calibrate in the other comment.