bought a pair of cdj200URGENT! HELP!

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Posted by djphatt on Jul-27-2007 08:01:

bought a pair of cdj200URGENT! HELP!

i hav just cdj200s and a djm400 mixer... i am pretty sure i have wired them correctly. why is there no sound coming out through headphones or speakers?! i dot think the mixer has realised that it has cdjs plugged into it.....

Posted by jupiterone on Jul-27-2007 08:09:

Did you plug your mixers into the RIGHT ports? You're supposed to plug the RCA cables into LINE and NOT PHONO. It's a common mistake if you did that.

Posted by basd on Jul-27-2007 08:27:

quote:
Originally posted by jupiterone
Did you plug your mixers into the RIGHT ports? You're supposed to plug the RCA cables into LINE and NOT PHONO. It's a common mistake if you did that.

Plus: have you set the switches at the top to CD input? If they're on 'phono', you won't get any sound either.

Posted by djphatt on Jul-27-2007 08:58:

man they are! ill double check but! im definetly not that dumb with electronics....

Posted by Stu Cox on Jul-27-2007 09:02:

Is the mixer on?

Trace the signal through - are you getting levels showing up on your mixer?

Posted by djphatt on Jul-27-2007 09:05:

no levels

Posted by Hasneez on Jul-27-2007 11:42:

headphone volume? different RCA/digital cables?

if you have an ipod or any other device that plays audio, try setting it up to ur mixer.. if it doesn't work then its probably the mixer.. but are u sure u have the cables going in the right ports?

Posted by SPAWNmaster on Jul-27-2007 12:28:

since you are a new owner I'll suggest firstly that you have read your manuals! sounds like you've checked your connections appropriately but make sure your gains arent turned down, if you've set your input switches to line and are hooked up appropriately this woudl be the only cause. gl.

btw: you can also connect a pair of phones to your cdj's to see if its a mechanical problem with them.

Posted by Ted Promo on Jul-27-2007 12:39:

mess with the gains. Believe it or not, when I first started hooking my shit up that was the problem. Make sure the gains/trims are up off of 0.

Posted by nefardec on Jul-27-2007 12:55:

also check for a master limiter

that messed with me at first too

Posted by Allied Nations on Jul-27-2007 13:48:

try plugging something else into the mixer... maybe a home cd player or dvd player or something, just to check.

Posted by jupiterone on Jul-27-2007 15:39:

If all else fails, might be a b0rked mixer.

Posted by Inertia on Jul-27-2007 15:56:

first things first.

your CDJ200s have a headphone input at the back. plug your phones into them and play a track. you should hear it in the phones. there's a volume knob right next to it, which is specifically for the headphone volume, so make sure it isn't all the way down when you try this.

now, once you have eleminated the possibility of it being the CDJ, go to the mixer.

connect your CDJs to the CD inputs. you will notice the cables align vertically, not horizontally. your channel gains/trim should be at 12 o'clock or so. now, plug your headpones into the mixer, set the headphone volume at about 10 o'clock or so. in any case, if there is sound coming out of the CDJ, the level lights should be lighting up.

try pressing the different cue buttons you have on the left side of the mixer to see if you can get any sound out of it.

if your CDJs are good, but none of the above works for the mixer, then the mixer is definitely the problem.