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Summary: How to set up and install DJ turntable needles; get expert tips and advice on how to use mixing equipment and turntables to DJ for a party or night club in this free instructional video.
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What's going on everyone, I'm DJ Shy here with Expert Village and I'm going to explain to you about needles. Now needles vary in what they do and cost. So as a DJ if you scratch you want scratching needles you want Technics needles. If you are a mixer and you don't really scratch, mixing doesn't really require much scratching but, you want to use Shure needles. There's also cheaper versions that if you're on a budget that are available to you. Let's see, I have Shure needles it's the white label and they look like this. Now the needle here comes with a cover, that you just slide off, to protect the needle. The needle is kind of dirty, sorry about that but it looks like this. This is very, very important and you do not want to break that. If you break it you cannot spin with it. So with this needle, you want to attach to the turntable like this. You just screw the needle inside so that it is tightly in there and you would lift it and this is how you would play your record. And that is what a needle and how you set the needle up.