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Posted by thicket on May-19-2004 20:46:

Monitoring with DJM 500

I just bought a used Pioneer DJM 500 and love this thing. It is alot different from my crappy old two channel and I'm trying to figure out the right way to monitor with it.

This is what I am doing: track A (channel 1) is playing live through the speakers. I push the master volume button in the monitor selector column and can hear track A in my headphones (I am not pusing the channel 1 selector at this point). Before cuing track B I push the channel 2 button and when the cue track plays through my phones it is much louder than track A. So track B overwhelms track A in my headphones. What I end up doing is just listening to the cue track in one ear and the live track in my un-phoned ear as I used to do with my old mixer. Surely there is a more fancy way to do it with all these monitoring buttons and knobs on the DJM 500, right?

Posted by D Dubya on May-19-2004 20:51:

On my 600 I simply do what you're doing. I have Track B cued in the one headphone cup and listen with my other ear to the monitor speakers. By adjusting the mixing knob on your headphone part of the mixer you can bring in Track A, B or both at different volumes in different ears.

Posted by BeatSMiTH on May-19-2004 20:53:

Volume for cueing on the channels versus the master volume is much louder. There isn't really a need to monitor to the master since they're playing on your speakers, so just push the buttons for monitoring channel 1 and 2. Thats what I did when I owned my 500 and that way it ensures that the volume is at the same level for each channel in the headphones. I think thats what u were aiming for; the ability to monitor both the channels at once right?

Posted by tu_face on May-20-2004 11:42:

is there not a split cue switch on it somewhere..? so you can have one channel in one ear and the other in the other..?

either way, if there isnt its no great loss, so long as you can hear one track on ur headfones and the other on ur speakers im sure you will manage

Posted by BeatSMiTH on May-20-2004 20:46:

The DJM-500 does not have a split cue function, but apparently the 600 does? Sounds like it from wut Dirk W. had posted.

Posted by Dzokayi on May-21-2004 03:10:

The 600 has split cue.
The 500 has headphone EQ.
The Empath has both .

But seriously, just punch the cue buttons for the channels you want to monitor.

Cheers...

Posted by Rememberence_ on May-21-2004 07:42:

I'm not 100% sure what split-cue is, but I have always assumed that it defines the function on a mixer that allows cuing of one source (ie. turntable #1) in the left ear and another source in the right ear. Is that correct?

My Xone:32 has a crossfader which allows you to fade between the "mix" (what's playing live) and the cue channel (whichever you have selected to be the cue channel). The same output comes through each side of the headphones. Is there a term for this monitoring function? I love it, works very well for me.

Posted by tu_face on May-21-2004 09:33:

quote:
Originally posted by Rememberence_
I'm not 100% sure what split-cue is, but I have always assumed that it defines the function on a mixer that allows cuing of one source (ie. turntable #1) in the left ear and another source in the right ear. Is that correct?

My Xone:32 has a crossfader which allows you to fade between the "mix" (what's playing live) and the cue channel (whichever you have selected to be the cue channel). The same output comes through each side of the headphones. Is there a term for this monitoring function? I love it, works very well for me.

split cue is when you have seperate channels in seperate ears, as opposed to both channels in both ears, or cue signal only. the different settings are usually labelled 'split' and 'mix', or simply 'split cue on/off'. usually by default one of the channels in a cue split is the master signal, i'm not sure if you can alter this on a djm600 (is there a cue button over the master volume fader..? bloody ages since i used a djm600..)

i prefer split cue, i dont like having the two channels blended in together in the headfones, i find it a lot easier to differentiate between the two, and easier/quicker to fix any problems

Posted by D Dubya on May-21-2004 14:48:

quote:
Originally posted by tu_face
usually by default one of the channels in a cue split is the master signal, i'm not sure if you can alter this on a djm600 (is there a cue button over the master volume fader..? bloody ages since i used a djm600..)

Yes, there is a cue button above the master fader

Posted by Laszlo on May-22-2004 01:32:

what kind of split cue monitoring does the DJM-600 have? Is there fading abilities when you hear both channels in both cups, like there is on the most numark mixers, or is it just a simple channel A/B-left/right split?

Posted by Dzokayi on May-22-2004 03:36:

there's a knob...

which allows you to fade between the two.

Posted by tu_face on May-22-2004 10:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Dirk W.
Yes, there is a cue button above the master fader

in that case i would imagine you can deselect the master and have 2 channels of your choice in seperate ears (when the djm600 is on split cue).

i wish my mixer did that it would make things easier for having more than 2 tracks on the go

Posted by tu_face on May-23-2004 10:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou
What I do with my 500 when mixing is pitch and beat match with the master and the incoming channel (still with the fader all the way down) on the phones, then when i start to bring in the track I only listen to the master and adjust through that, and if i really need to check on something i turn the incoming channels cue back on just to check again, then turn it off. It works well and I hear what is over the mains the whole time.

But whatever floats your boat...

hmm strange, i always tell myself off for doing that! i always like to have an ear on the cue track all the time.. i find i can hear if it is going out a lot quicker and make the nessesary adjustments before people notice

my boat floats differently

Posted by thicket on May-27-2004 17:05:

I was out of town for a while so haven't had a chance to check this thread.

Okay, so the DJM 600 has a split cue which allows you to adjust the volume level in each ear (phone). When I am mixing, sometimes I will have the cue track's channel selector on so that it is coming through my headphones pretty strong while the live track is coming through just slightly by pressing the master volume selector and adjusting the master volume. Is this similar to split cue on the 600?