My vestax mixer has a fader for the headphones which allows me to listen to the complete mix or however I want. I've learned to beatmatch quite well with this setup, but what I wanted to know is, what do you guys do when you go to an actual club or party where the mixer headphone selection is channel only. Is it a lot harder? Does it just take more practice? Or do most decent clubs have a newer mixer with a headphone x-fader?

pretty much every club i have seen uses either a pioneer or an allen & Heath mixer, neither of them have headphone x-faders. Actually i have only ever seen 1 mixer with the fader and that was a stanton.

i learned to mix on a vestax without a headphone x-fader
it just has the cue selectors on each channel

but lately i'm mixing on a mixer with the headphone x-fader, and now going back to the mixer without the fader is kinda disorientating (sp?)

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my mixer has both selections, but i find regular mixing (only hearing cued track in phones) much easier. if i listen to both at the same time in the phones, i have like a mind overload and can't concentrate at all!

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Originally posted by mikefasssy my mixer has both selections, but i find regular mixing (only hearing cued track in phones) much easier. if i listen to both at the same time in the phones, i have like a mind overload and can't concentrate at all!

I have exactly the same problem. I own a Kam mixer which has the headphones cross-fader thing in the form of a knob but I hardly ever touch it.

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Originally posted by Great Outdoors I have exactly the same problem. I own a Kam mixer which has the headphones cross-fader thing in the form of a knob but I hardly ever touch it.

I have the opposite problem

I tend to use both. I usually beatmatch with one ear on the headphones and one ear on the monitors. I then put on the headphones to fine tune it. (Usually I don't need it.)

In clubs and raves, the monitors are usually decent and the bass is so loud you can feel the beat so I don't think you will have a problem. In fact the bass is so loud and round in clubs that slightly offbeat mixes is still good because of the enveloping bass. If there's melodies in your tracks however, that will sound messed up.

pioneer djm 600 has a CUE split, or w.e it's called.
What i always do, is monitor 2 channels, that way you don't even need the x-fader thing, you will always hear 2 tracks at the same time...

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