DJ Turntable Parts: Tonearm

Video Transcript

"The next piece of the turntable that we're going to be talking about is the arm. The arm holds the head, which holds the cartridge. The cartridge holds the stylee or a needle, and of course, that's what reads the grooves on the record. So the first thing you want to do to use your arm is to take off the clip that holds the arm in place. You can lift it up by the handle on the head. You can also lift it up using this switch right here, it will lift it up, you can push it along, you can bring it down on the record, (get the record playing), bring it up, bring it down. But you really want to be comfortable with just picking it up, like moving it as quickly as you can because if you're going to be moving the record, you're going to be moving quickly, you have to be comfortable with the arm. They make these needles so they're really not going to mess up the records unless you throw them at them. And so that's how you use the arm."