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Is this wierd?

for some reason i find it that its alot easier for me to mix in my headphones, instead of just holding one ear and listening to the speakers with the other, is this normal? Do alot of you guys just mix in your headphones?

It is easier at first.... But once you start playing on louder systems it gets alot easier to listen with just one headphone... IMO

Probably, i use a 6 Speaker setup here at home, they are tiny but produce shitload of noise I never turn it up tho cause someones always home and bitchin'

I wouldn't say it is weird at all. It's all a matter of what is most comfortable/successful for you.

i use split mode in my headphones, and i cue channel 2 to be master, so i dont need to listen to the live sound...cause it's in my fones.

Currently i use my discman headphones to mix , the ones you plug into your ear but my previous headphones's right channel screwed up so i had to mix holding my right ear and mixing with the left...

But either way is easy IMO.

at home I put chan 1 in the left ear and chan 2 in the right ear to match em. Then switch to master when I mix the track in.

when in a club I definitly go one on one off. I only do that because the bass is so intense in a club you get a better listen to it w/o headphones on.

Before I played in a club I would only mix in my phones but it is real easy to switch and it actually becomes easier IMO.

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Originally posted by TwiloThunder I wouldn't say it is weird at all. It's all a matter of what is most comfortable/successful for you.

exactly! be careful of getting to used to split mode if you use it and your mixer has it. not all mixers have this feature so if you get too dependent upon it you could be in trouble when you play at a club or party that the mixer they're using doesn't have a headphone split. cheers.

how necessary is this one ear beatmatching in a club/loud environment? I have been practicing for two months now and headphone mix seems the easiest (and only ) way for me so far, and my mixer doesn't have split mode either. I tried one ear couple of times and seemed impossible , maybe because it is not very loud at home? my concern is that do I have to learn that in the future and if so would split cueing on the headphones be a step towards using one ear...

I use 1 ear for the initial beatmatching but I always bring the main in just slightly with the phones cue fader, especially if the systems not turned up loud. Or hold the phones a little away from your ear, or half off. But if the systems loud enough then full on with only the cued track in the phones works for me.

When I first learned to mix, I could only ever manage it with the phones on and both tunes playing. Then I played out on a club system which didn�t have this cue function, only split cue. Train wrecks ahoy, lol. That made me learn dam quick that one ear method was the way to go. Now I can�t do it the old way like I used to.

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Originally posted by gcrasher I use 1 ear for the initial beatmatching but I always bring the main in just slightly with the phones cue fader, especially if the systems not turned up loud. Or hold the phones a little away from your ear, or half off. But if the systems loud enough then full on with only the cued track in the phones works for me.

i do exactly the same thing. odd thigs about my style is i monitor "backwards". i've nothice most dj's that monitor with one ear use their left ear to monitor with their headphones. i use my right.

I don�t use one ear � If the live track is the right TT I use my right ear to cue and vice versa.

One ear monitoring for beatmatching.

I favor my right ear for the current track and my left ear to listen to the track in cue.

As a bedroom dj, I taught myself to mix in my headhpones, as I could hear both beats clearer... however, as I played on my school system, I found that listening to only the cued track in my headphones was enough... I still prefer to have them both on to beatmatch instead of leaving the right ear open.

My mixer does have split cue, but I don't care too much for it... I use it sometimes when mixing

I find the best thing for me for hitting just correct beatmatch etc is split que both tracks in phones, even though I have quality speakers 30-40 cm from me when mixing. And for pees playing out and saying shit like " dude what are you gonna do when you`re gonna play on a club and they don`t have split cue? " I`d say don`t play there because the mixer is obiously so crap you could use it as a rather bad tea-table. But then again, it`s all subjective.

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Originally posted by Dj Ve I find the best thing for me for hitting just correct beatmatch etc is split que both tracks in phones, even though I have quality speakers 30-40 cm from me when mixing. And for pees playing out and saying shit like " dude what are you gonna do when you`re gonna play on a club and they don`t have split cue? " I`d say don`t play there because the mixer is obiously so crap you could use it as a rather bad tea-table. But then again, it`s all subjective.

so you wouldn't play at a club that used a pioneer djm-500? or a vestax pmc-07pro? or an allen & heath zone:32? or a rane mp44? or a rane empath? or a denon dn-x8000? and i believe that the technics shmx-1200 does not have a split cue either. you know, since none of the mixers i just listed have a split cue function they're obviously crap, right?

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Originally posted by VIO i do exactly the same thing. odd thigs about my style is i monitor "backwards". i've nothice most dj's that monitor with one ear use their left ear to monitor with their headphones. i use my right.

Same here

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