i'm just starting and i'm looking into pioneer mixers...i was wondering what the headphone monitoring feature is??

Last edited by DjObscene on Dec-10-2002 at 00:13

oh wait.. your not serious are you?

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well if i'm just starting i could be serious...don't tell me you knew EVERYTHING about equipment when you first started. i'm just trying to learn and figure out shit that's all.

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Originally posted by DjObscene i'm just starting and i'm looking into pioneer mixers...i was wondering what the headphone monitoring feature is??

Without that, it would be pretty hard to mix with a headphone

sorry m8, i thought you might be joking. i will admit i did not know everything when i started, i always wondered what the heck DJs were doing up there moving their hand back and forth and somehow making music!

but then, i found VTT and started DJing on computer, and figured it out. then i knew i needed tables, so i got them and a mixer.

so, yeah, i didn't know when i started, but i figured it out by learning from watching. But you said earlier you had a CDJ800, and that's a pretty expensive piece of equipment for someone that doesn't know what headphone monitoring is!

anyway, just to be concise, headphone monitoring is so you can listen to one song in your headphones, while the other song is playing on the speakers. this is how you get the beatmatched and cued up without the audience hearing.

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oh ok thanks...well because i'm just starting i still like to buy nice equipment...that's just how i am...but i was reading about mixers like the pioneer djm-500 and 600 and i kind of thought that headphone monitor was something along those lines but wasn't sure so i asked...but that's weird if it's necessary, i'm wondering why the 500 doesn't have it and the 600 does have headphone monitoring?
This is the comparison chart for the mixers. I was thinking about the 500 but if it doesn't have headphone monitoring maybe something else. Do you guys know anything about the stanton sk-2f??

Mate, both the DJM-500 and 600 have headphone monitoring. Without this feature, you wouldn't be able to mix on them. What the 500 doesn't have is a headphone cue-to-live mix. This is a dial or a fder that lets you go from the cued song to the live song in the headphones. It's like a cross fader for the phones so you can hear both songs in the headphones or any combination of the two, like the cross fader.

A very useful feature and its strange that the 500 doesn't have it. It seems there are a few important things that they have left out of the 500

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Ya, a DJ does his job by headphone monitoring. It's how DJing works.. you see the DJ, and he's wearing headphones... that means that he is doing headphone monitoring, and his headphones are plugged into whatever piece of necessary equipment in front of him that supports headphone monitoring.

oh ok...so what are some good mixers that have cue-to-live mix...do you know if the stanton sk-2f has it?? i looked at their site and i'm not too surehere is the link

you dont need cue-to-live or whatever you want to call it

you can just cue both channels in hte headphones if you REALLY need to

all the cue-to-live thing does is lets you control what ratio of the live sound and the cued headphone you want to hear...
you can get around this if your mixer doesn't have it though, but just cueing both channels in the headphone, then toying with the gain of the record your'e cueing and over headphone volume

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