Originally posted by Ken_Allen
Can't really get the bass & kick out of that
but you can pick out highhats and other perc. i can do it so long as the monitors arn't too loud, its good if someone else is playing and you want to bugger about while they are using the headfones
again, not for use in a club
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Nov-01-2004 15:01
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how exactly do you beatmatch if ur mixer doesn't allow you too? i mean, how do you know if your exactly correct , if you can't check through your headphones?
i dont think the point is that a mixer does nto allow you to. i mean.. it does if you have vu meters on each channel. the point that beatmatching is a skill that a person can use in desperate situations. say... your headphones broke and you dont have a spare and you have like one mroe song to do... or say the system that you are playing on is really crappy and you would rather trust your eyes than to trust whatever is coming out of the monitors.
personally i think mixing in headphones is also a good skill in these types of situation. if i had bad monitors then i would jsut turn them off and use headphones. if the headphone monitor is bad.. of if the mixer itself is bad then i guess you cant really trust vu meters but i still see some good things that people can consider whilst using vu meters to mix.
Beatmatching without headphones is good for practice in the bedroom. There used to be a video -- i know its on here somewhere that features DJ 2nd Nature spinning hiphop on the new DVJ-X1 dvd tables. He doesn't use headphones at all and still even beatmatches certain parts of the music. It actually looks like a pre-made video instead of a live demonstration, but thats my opinion on it. Anyone else seen that?
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Nov-09-2004 16:10
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so there are clubs out there that have mixers, that dont allow you to check on your beatmatching throught he headphones, before you fade in your track? How do you know exactly if your beatmatching is correct? I mean, only when you bring in the other track are u able to hear ur cued track?? WOW, that sucks... are there other ways to check on ur beatmatching besides that ?
Originally posted by PVD fanatic
so there are clubs out there that have mixers, that dont allow you to check on your beatmatching throught he headphones, before you fade in your track? How do you know exactly if your beatmatching is correct? I mean, only when you bring in the other track are u able to hear ur cued track?? WOW, that sucks... are there other ways to check on ur beatmatching besides that ?
I believe what they were talking about is that there are mixers that do not allow you to hear more than one channel at a time within the headphones. This just means you can't hear the beats placed over each other in the headphones. There is no mixer that doesn't allow monitoring of at least one channel because that would be utterly useless. A lot of mixers though do not allow you to hear 2 channels at the same time. This does not affect me at all usually since most of my monitoring is done on one channel anyways with a free ear to the speakers or booth monitor. Occasionally I will just monitor two channels simultaneously for a second to make sure the volume levels are correct and right-on.
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