Last nights DJ nightmare and question about DJM-500/600

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Posted by Laszlo on Mar-20-2004 13:01:

Last nights DJ nightmare and question about DJM-500/600

Last night I played at a well performed party here at my university where a band played. The only problem was that I had no monitors and the buliding wasn't made for clubbing. The party was held in the main buliding of the university, which is almost entirely of glass, and that created a LOTS of echoes which fecked up my mixing.

I also encountered a DJM-500 for the first time - which didn't worry me a whole lot since I've played on a DJM-300 before (I'm used to Numark and the headphone monitoring on those mixers are a bit different from the Pioneer ones - so I feel a bit more comfortable with the Numark mixers). But when I tested the 500 mixer, mixing in my headphones just to get familiar the mixer while they were setting up the sound system (I got there really early), I got freaked out - when I had the master qued up in my headphones the level was AWFULLY low, compared to the other channels - and it didn't make a lot of difference when I turned the master fader up either, so I don't really know if this is how the DJM-500 and 600's work, or if this mixer just had been tortured a lot, but I think it sucked big time.

On the Numark mixers you have a fader knob on which you can fade from the master to the qued channels for your headphone monitoring, and I really miss that on the Pioneer mixers. I don't know if it's just me, but it makes the beatmatching a lot easier. I guess I just have to practice on some other mixers as well. Besides all this, nothing even compares to the Pioneer mixers (at least not out of those mixers that I've played on).

And I have absolutely no idea of why I made this thread.

Cheers

Posted by Unknown DJ on Mar-20-2004 13:28:

thats a bit weird. i have a djx 700, which is by no means a djm 500 but its kinda bassed on that mixer, and the master in the headphones is only low if the master output is on low. so thats a weird one. its probably been caned to buggery and they cant b bothered to fix it.

Posted by sektile on Mar-20-2004 15:51:

well, i got a 600 and my master levels fine

sure you didn't have the cue/master fader set all the way to cue? :P

if not i dunno, sounds like that mixer was fucked

edit: took out the statement that was on crack

Posted by trancintaiwan on Mar-20-2004 16:52:

maybe you should have looked at the gains. my old mixer, which was a numark dxm-06, had a problem where the headphones didn't have enough volume boost so in order to have a louder headphone volume, i had to turn the gain up for the channels. or maybe just that one channel was fuc*ed.

Posted by borron on Mar-20-2004 21:15:

So why didn't you lower the other channels gain to cue, and then increase it while you turn the fader of the cued channel up?

Posted by brian on Mar-20-2004 22:30:

quote:
Originally posted by sektile
sure you didn't have the cue/master fader set all the way to cue? :P

The 500 doesn't have this knob -- instead it has the Monitor EQ knob that controls the amount of bass (essentially).

Laszlo, if you had the master monitor button on, and adjusting the master volume didn't do anything, then that particular mixer must have been shot to hell.

Posted by razzi on Mar-21-2004 16:43:

i want a pioneer djm 500/600.

unfortunately, i am basically broke.

someday... someday..

Posted by soundwave on Mar-22-2004 22:45:

I've got a 500 and the master is low. Try lisening to the track your trying to mix in one head phone then turn on the master to make the adjustments leaving one ear free to lisen to the speakers. Or you can turn the 2 chanels on plus the master uning both ears and just take off the headphones during the mix. That's how i do it.

Boat Drinks!

Posted by wiregen on Mar-23-2004 06:41:

lol i jumped straight to DJM-600, the funny thing is i messed up mixing when i was at this club that had a allen and heath Xone 62. LOL i was so confuesed...i had to go basic mixing, after awhile i got used to it