This is a record without grooves it has a flat surface with no music.
Anti skating blank vinyl.
If your tone arm drifts in either direction remove the arm from the blank and slowly turn your anti skate adjustment.
The record is shiny with no scratches all you see in the picture are reflections on the disc.
When using a blank vinyl one without any grooves and the setting at zero you can see it work.
Anti skate helps to counter act the centrifugal force that pulls the tonearm towards the centre of the record while it s spinning.
You use it by putting the record on the turntable start it up and put the needle on the blank vinyl in the middle.
In this video you will see different methods with their specific pros an.
Grooveless record to demonstrate and calibrate anti skating body of the lp is blank and shiny there is no track on the vinyl.
By adjusting it in increments you can find the sweet spot where it will neither track towards or away from the middle.
Recommended settings by rega.
Repeat procedure of putting tone arm in center of blank while the turntable is running.
In this case you place the needle in the middle of the record.
If the needle maintains its place during playback then the anti skate is setup properly.
Tracking force at 1 75 elys2 spec same with anti skatin.
Calibration record comes shrink wrapped in a 12 standard jacket.
How do you set the perfect anti skate force of your tonearm.
Well in short it is the only truly accurate way to set the anti skating force on your high quality turntable.
Adjust anti skate until your tonearm remains in a stationary position.
Some people use a blank vinyl record.
Gravity is the principle here.