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Posted by Radders2003 on Mar-04-2012 22:49:

Split in headphones or not?

What would you encourage me to do?...Try and beatmatch with both tracks playing in the headphones, or the second track in the headphones and the first track playing out loud? Which is easier?

Posted by darouge11 on Mar-05-2012 00:15:

Headphones I Prefer

Posted by n3lly on Mar-05-2012 11:35:

Re: Split in headphones or not?

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Originally posted by Radders2003
What would you encourage me to do?...Try and beatmatch with both tracks playing in the headphones, or the second track in the headphones and the first track playing out loud? Which is easier?

Practice using both methods.

Some mixer have a nice cue/master volume knob where you can mix them nicely others however don't. Some have split cue some don't.

Basically if you only know how to mix using one technique you'll get caught out one day when you run into a mixer that's different.

I find playing both tracks easier compared to split cue. Personal preference.

Posted by itsamemario on Mar-13-2012 14:34:

Cue with both tracks in headphones. Start track 2, make sure it's synced, remove headphones, mix listening to the monitors/pa.

Its easy to get into the habit of relying on what the headphones tell you, and it's even easier to forget to set the x-fader to middle etc. in a dark dj booth. I can't tell you just how hard it sucks when you're nailing a 4 min transition just to realize that's only the first track is playing on the PA.

Posted by Ryan0751 on Mar-13-2012 15:19:

Get used to track in the headphone, track on the monitors. Nothing else.

If you play out, personally I find it next to impossible to discern two tracks in my headphones on a big system. If you can match off the monitors you can revert to any other method if you needed to (ie, no monitors).