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Originally posted by Nemesis44 The DJM will enable you to mix as you need to.

if it's a 600 or 3000. the cueing system on the 500 is lacking. no cue fader.

My biggest complaint about split-cue mixing is that every mixer I've used will place the master output on the right ear, and the cued channel on the left ear. For some reason this feels *very* unnatural to me. Perhaps I'm goofy-eared? Who knows. But my only solution (besides dealing with it) is putting my headphones on backwards. I'll admit there have been a FEW times where I'm spinning somewhere and you'll see me pull off my headphones, spin them 180, and put them back on backwards... sucks to have to do this, but when I'm picky about what I hear in which ear, it's my only choice. Have you seen any mixers that will let you split-cue and choose which ear to place the cued channel in?

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Originally posted by DJVirgen My biggest complaint about split-cue mixing is that every mixer I've used will place the master output on the right ear, and the cued channel on the left ear. For some reason this feels *very* unnatural to me. Perhaps I'm goofy-eared? Who knows. But my only solution (besides dealing with it) is putting my headphones on backwards. I'll admit there have been a FEW times where I'm spinning somewhere and you'll see me pull off my headphones, spin them 180, and put them back on backwards... sucks to have to do this, but when I'm picky about what I hear in which ear, it's my only choice. Have you seen any mixers that will let you split-cue and choose which ear to place the cued channel in?

Instead of switching your headphones around why don't you just try listening to the cue in your right ear and the monitor with your left?

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Originally posted by Zild Instead of switching your headphones around why don't you just try listening to the cue in your right ear and the monitor with your left?

Like I said, that feels very unnatural to me. Along with the already loud atmosphere (which I love, btw) and the feedback going back into the needles from the heavy bass, it's not easy for me to just switch listening ears on the fly when you need to be as accurate as possible. Otherwise, I would cue with my left ear, but it feels really strange. I could if I try, but it's more natural with my right ear. I'm not the only DJ who has a picky ear, it's just most DJs choose to cue with their left ear while I am the only weirdo who cues with the right one =)

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Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2 if it's a 600 or 3000. the cueing system on the 500 is lacking. no cue fader.

whats that mean?

i always mix with the monitor, but will go mix within my headphones for a coupla seconds to make sure my mixing is really what i think it is.

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Originally posted by Nou I have a 500 and have no complaints about cue? Cue volume control? It has that, or if you mean a fade betwen PGM and Master or whatever, I never found a need for that since you can cue the main channel.

so can you multi-channel cue or not?

btw Beck does kick ass

I used to mix entirely in my headphones until I had to play at a venue where the sound was so loud I was forced to put the cue in one ear and crank the volume just so I could hear what the tracks I was trying to cue.

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Until I got my Rane 2016 I used to headphone mix.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...e6cca94d148ea8?

After I was forced to cue with monitors it made spinning a lot more fun. I am way more engaged with the crowd and know that I can mix on any mixer.

In my opinion it's just something you need to be able to do as a DJ. It's like beat matching. Even if software can do it for you still need to know how to do it manually or you're not a real DJ, right? Anyway just my opinion but I have lived on both sides of the fence.

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hahahahah it seems as though I'm not the only one who got thinking about this when I first mixed on a Rane 2016! Multichannel cue was always the way to go for me, well actually, it was a neccessity for me. I used the rotary 2016 for the first time last weekend, and upon realising that you can only cue one channel at a time in the cans, I had to mix one ear in one ear out. It actually was very easy, no doubt helped by the fact that the monitors were decent. I feel more confident now, and aside from that, I absolutely love the Rane!

Just too bad that they didn't have a 2016a instead. Is there anyone here that has used a 2016a? Rane says it has "split cue", but seeing as there is some debate as to exactly what split cue is (and multichannel cue), I'm wondering if the 2016a lets you fade between cue and master (multichannel cue, as it has been labeled in this thread).

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