Mixing: headphones only or headphones & monitors???
Just a quick question...
Do many of you mix using your headphones only i.e. dont use the traditional one ear in/one ear out method????
The majority of the time, I mix using my headphones only. I started mixing like this because the place that I had my first few gigs didnt have a booth monitor. I just got used to ignoring the main speakers in that place and from then on, I always mixed with my headphones only.
Barely any of my mates or the DJs that I play with use this technique and outside of Hernan Cattaneo, I dont know of many other 'nig name' djs who use the headphone only technique.
Ive been DJing like this for over 3 years now and its naturally to me now, but just wondering how many others use this method...
Yeah, I'm partial to the both on approach as well (everyone in my house goes to bed early). I've tried the other approach but I prefer both on, non-split.
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Originally posted by miamitranceman
Yeah, I'm partial to the both on approach as well (everyone in my house goes to bed early). I've tried the other approach but I prefer both on, non-split.
yeah ive played in a few clubs where the mixer has no headphone mix (i.e. xone 62) and used split but im not a big fan on split either...prefer using the headphone mix on the pioneers, denons etc.
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Land of milk & honey
i use my cans for cueing and beat matching only. i'd rather not have them on while in the mix.
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Nov-13-2007 03:42
Saint John
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Use my headphones for beatmatching, and only my headphones none of that 50 50 stuff and for mixing, i use my memory of what the tracks sound ike and base it off that.
Nov-13-2007 04:06
legendary_waz
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Mississauga, Canada
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Originally posted by hooj1
i use my cans for cueing and beat matching only. i'd rather not have them on while in the mix.
+1
Nov-13-2007 05:54
aLviNx80
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: San Francisco
i use the one ear method to match the beats in the beginning, use both ears to double check afterwards, then back to one ear during transition.
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Nov-13-2007 08:01
Pointy
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Initially one cup & monitor to get the beats close ~ .5% or so, then both cups headphones to match them properly
Nov-13-2007 08:07
Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
Headphones for beatmatching, monitors for transitions, with occasionally headphones going back on for precise pitch bending corrections.
Never liked the 50/50 thing. I can't concentrate trying to listen to both headphone and monitor at same time.
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
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Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Nov-13-2007 09:01
Fanki Dzanki
tranceaddict in training
Registered: Nov 2007
Location: Monte Carlo, Monaco
quote:
Originally posted by hooj1
i use my cans for cueing and beat matching only. i'd rather not have them on while in the mix.
A win for me
Nov-13-2007 09:04
the_gamemaster
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Derby/Nottingham, UK
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Originally posted by EvilTree
Headphones for beatmatching, monitors for transitions, with occasionally headphones going back on for precise pitch bending corrections.
Never liked the 50/50 thing. I can't concentrate trying to listen to both headphone and monitor at same time.
