Unless you’re a DJ. In which case you want to have a little extra pressure on to keep the needle from skipping while manipulating the record.
Most DJs are digital these days, anyway, so you don’t have to worry about wear because there’s no actual music on a timecode record. They contain nothing more than digital signal so that the DJ software knows where you are in the song. When it wears out, simply replace it with another one.
The needle should but hardly any weight on it. If it did, the records would wear out faster
Unless you’re a DJ. In which case you want to have a little extra pressure on to keep the needle from skipping while manipulating the record.
Most DJs are digital these days, anyway, so you don’t have to worry about wear because there’s no actual music on a timecode record. They contain nothing more than digital signal so that the DJ software knows where you are in the song. When it wears out, simply replace it with another one.