How to speed up your Technics sl1200.

0:00 You're probably wondering what the hell I'm on about

Alright folks, Jonathan here. This video is about trying to make your deck go slightly faster or maybe if it's going too fast, go slower. You're probably wondering what the hell I'm on about. Have you got a Technics SL1200 turntable? Have you got two of them and when you bring the pitch all the way up as fast as they can go, do you find that one deck goes maybe faster, slightly faster than the other? Well using this method you can actually decrease the speed. But also, would you like your decks to go maybe faster? I'm pretty sure that the Technics SL1200 Mark II will do plus or minus 8. But by doing this, you can make them go that little bit faster. Now, I'm not telling you to do this, I'm showing you what you can do. So it's up to you if you want to do this with your turntable. I'm not taking any responsibility if you buggy a deck, alright? So watch this, I'll give you step-by-step idea on what to do.

1:24 Actual pitch, you can see where

And then I will show you the actual outcome as well. I'll show you before and after. So we'll pause the camera and I'll show you exactly what happens. Bear with me. Right, here we go. Here's the turntable and as you can see I've removed the slip mat. Now if we have a close look at the dots, I just want you to make note of the speed of the top dot. Now I am now going to increase the pitch control all the way as far as it goes to the plus position. Now can you see the movement there? And if we have a look at the actual pitch, you can see where it is. Now what I'll do, I'll pan out like so, and we'll stop the turntable, turn it off like that. Then you need to remove the actual platter. Now also very important, unplug from the actual mains, which I will do now.

3, 4, 5 screws. Remove those screws, put them in a safe place. Now as you're looking at the underside, you will see this guy here. It's a small blue dial. Now what you need to do is you need to move that clockwise. If we say class o'clock, 12 o'clock, 1, 2, 3. What I suggest you do initially is you move it as though you're moving five minutes. Well in fact no, I'm going to move ten minutes just to show you the difference. So I'm going to move it just about to three o'clock like so. Now we will put the cover back on. Don't screw it down yet just in case you want to make other adjustments. Put the actual top back on and then I'll plug it in at the mains and as well very important to actually Unplug from the mains. Physically take the plug out of the socket. Right, we'll turn that on and now what I'll do, I'll have the pitch set to the green light and we will take a look at this point here. Try and put my finger there so it will focus. Now what we're looking at is the dot at the top. So I'm now moving the pitch as fast as it can go and as you can see now, it's starting to go faster.

3:19 Only very slightly, but still it's going faster

Only very slightly, but still it's going faster. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to pause the camera and just do exactly the same thing, but move that blue dial a little bit more and we'll see if it can go faster again. So there you go, there's the actual position of the pitch. Right, bear with me. OK, right, I've moved it again. Now we can see there, it's on the green light and as it should be, the centre circle, the larger centre circle, should be stationary. When the actual pitch is in center position. Now what we're going to do now, is we're going to increase the pitch all the way up to as fast as it can go and as you can see there it's going a lot faster. Now the opposite applies when we reduce the speed. The actual speed will slow down a lot more as well. So there you go, there's a general idea on how you can increase and decrease the speed

With regards a Technics SL1200 turntable. Alright, thanks for watching. Practice and enjoy.

This transcript was produced automatically from the audio of the video and may contain mistakes.