Align sound and picture fine tuning

[maxhifi]

Haven't worked on a TV in a while. One thing I can't seem to remember is how to adjust a TV so that the picture sharpness and lack of buzz in the audio peak at the same point of adjustment of the fine tuning control. Is this trivial or does it require a full alignment? Can't seem to find any reference to this adjustment in my TV books, maybe haven't looked hard enough.

[Electronic M]

It depends on the set. There were split carrier sound and inter-carrier sound sets. Split sound sets you fine tune for best audio and best picture should match that. Inter-carrier sets (sound splits after the video detector) you tune for best picture and sound should automatically be good.

On split-carrier sets if sound and picture don't line up you need to give the set a full alignment.... At least that's the "proper way". I've found if the video alignment is good enough to get a fairly perfect picture with a Philips PM5544 test pattern I can usually walk the sound alignment by ear to a state where the set works as good as you'd expect a new set to...All split sound sets are the old 21MHz IF and I don't have alignment gear for that frequency so the "proper way" isn't an option for me.

Inter-carrier sets you can align the sound as needed without touching anything else and it will be fine and proper.

[maxhifi]

Hey thanks for the excellent summary! Looks like mine is inter-carrier, here's a snippet of the schematic.