Buzzing out of your speakers after pluging in the turntables

0:00 To make sure is always make

Alright folks, I've had quite a few users still email me and say they're having lots of buzzing sounds coming through their speakers. Now I'm going to talk very briefly about the Technics SL1200 turntable. Now there you can see, let's say hypothetically right, the turntable is sort of plugged in there. First thing to make sure is always make sure you've got your ground cable plugged in. At the moment no turntable, this is just a separate lead alright so let's just class this as this is the actual phono lead. Going in from the turntable, OK? Now then, first thing logically, make sure you've got your ground cable plugged into here, GRND. If you haven't got a ground cable plugged in, that's possibly why you're having a buzzing sound. Now then, very quickly, if we take this here as, let's say it looks very dodgy, but take this as the actual arm of a Technics 1200 turntable. The blue is the outside of the arm. Orange, red, green and black are basically just the four very thin cables that are inside there.

1:21 To look for is to check

Now that's what they are, very thin cables. Now those cables do not at any time go into any electronics at all in that turntable. Basically all they do, they come out and then they go through into one phono plug which is there and the other phono plug which is there. That's how simple it is, OK? So basically if you look at this now, alright, that's from another turntable. But on the Technics, they're like that. So they'll just go straight through and then this cable, all this thick black stuff will disappear and you'll just end up with two very, very thin cables for either side. So that's two for left and two for right. Now then, a lot of people have said that they have a lot of buzzing sounds. Now, excuse me, the first thing to look for is to check. Now these four little points here are basically the points inside

2:43 Side buzzing, these

The actual tone arm. If you unscrew your cartridge and look inside there, you will see four tiny, very tiny round circles. They're almost goldy colour. So imagine those are those four bits. Now if you look at your actual cartridge, you will see four little pins. Now those four little pins fit on those four little pieces there. The first thing to do is to make sure that they're clean. What I tend to do sometimes, I will rub the cartridge Now then, a problem does happen over a period of time. Let's say we go back to these guys here now, these phono plugs. If you think about it, over a period of time, if you're pulling these in and out continually, if I can move that like that. Now you're pulling this in, it's out, in, out, in, out, shake it all about, you do the okey, no we won't go there, right. So what happens sometimes is that this part here will start to pull and some of the cables may start to get loose and break. So what I recommend, and again I'm not telling you to do this, you need to make

Possibly make further inquiries. This is what I have done in the past. The trouble is with this one, this is all sealed so you can't reuse this. What you can do, you can actually buy these from any sort of store, perhaps Radio Shack or a Hi-Fi shop. You can buy these separately. What I would tend to do is cut it about there, where my fingers are, so you're removing all this area because there's a possibility that the cables have been pulled here. And at some point, they'll be fine like that, they won't work, you know what I mean? So the more you bend it, it's going to get worse and worse. So I will cut it there, and then all I would do, I would re-solder another one there, and do likewise with the other one. If there's only one not working, you might as well do the two. Otherwise what you'll have is you'll have one like that and the other one like that. Best always to have the cables the same size. As well, very quickly...

If, let's say, one side is buzzing, then what you need to do, you need to swap these around. If the other side then starts buzzing, in other words, if you have the white at the top, the red at the bottom, and your left-hand side is buzzing, then you turn them the other way around, and then the right-hand side is buzzing, you'll know it's only the one cable. If they're both buzzing, then there's a good chance it's both of them. I hope that's been a help. Leave comments underneath, any questions, give me a bell, alright? Practice and enjoy. Thanks for watching.

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