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Originally posted by trance85 hmmmm, my vestax mixer has balance controls for the channel, if I moved one channel all the way to 'L' and the other all the way to 'R'... the 'L' channel would come in through the left cup and the 'R' channel through the right, is that split cueing?

yea except when you mix its gona sound way fucked up to whoever is listening.

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yea except when you mix its gona sound way fucked up to whoever is listening.

Yea that seems to be the problem though, 'cause it moves whatever deck I have "live" to only the 'R' or 'L' speaker/monitor. ?

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split cuing can be turned on or off

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I'd say your best bet is to practice with one cup on and one cup off listening to the monitor. Thats the closest you'll get to split cue without having a mixer with the function. I used to mix entirely in the headphones but on the advice of a friend I started mixing with only the cue in the headphones and it didn't take very long to adapt. A day of practice straightened me out.

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Last edited by Zild on Jan-08-2005 at 14:43

I mix only with headphones, but I'm trying to get used to mix with monitors (hopeless so far )

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When I have the crossfader all the way to side 1, so only deck 1 is playing, and I start deck 2, if I put P.F.L. to 'ON' is it the same thing as cueing? I'm told it is, the music from deck 2 only comes up in my headphones, but the music from deck 1 is also in my headphones still, should cueing isolate only one of the channels in your headphones?

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i prefer split during begining 10-20 secs of beatmatching, its a bit easier at the start, but i always switch back to stereo to check the exact beatmathing before i begin mixing it in. its easier to distinguish the songs with split i think, but stereo is a bit mroe precise in my book.

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i don't get it though. i learned to mix on a cheap stanton mixer, one cup on, other off. then i started messing with the PFL/PGM fader, to blend them. made it a bit easier. till one day i feel infront of a DJM600 and said "this has split cue right?", "right."

switched it to split cue, felt even more comfortable. it was just like 1 ear monitoring, just i didn't have to blast the phones so hard and my ears didn't get near as tired.

it's fun when i can get split cue at house parties, that way i normally turn the booth monitors to the crowd, for better sound.

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