DJ Turntable Parts: Ground Wire

Video Transcript

"Alright, now this is another part of the turntable, is the ground. Now what the ground does is it takes away the distortion, the interference, the electrical interference that you're going to get if your turntables are not grounded. This is coming from the bottom of the turntable, just this little cord, it's got a little fork on the end, actually this could be a twok, I guess, it only has two prongs. You put it into the back of your mixer. Now all mixers have these right here, it says ground right there, "GND" with a little ground symbol. You unscrew it, put it in, re-screw it as tight as you want so you just make sure it doesn't fall out. It really is going to work as long as it's touching. In fact you can see on this one, my ground looks all messed up, you think "That's not going to work"! Oh it works, it works perfectly, I gig with these all the time. As long as it's touching it's going to be grounded. And if you find that it's really not grounded, it helps to put it, your actual turntable itself, on either some fabric or some foam, that will help ground it. But generally it's really going to do the trick if you plug it into your mixer. So that's how you hook up your ground."