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Originally posted by sot I don't know how you people can just use 1 ear with yer headphones and the other ear listening to the speaker live and beatmatch that way. I tried and it never works!

Hey man, just check your sig and see who else does it

I have the phones on one earphone to beatmatch and cue, then after 10 secs or so after both recs./ CD spinplay I take them off to see how the final product sounds. If I hear something fishyy with the mix I ussually put the phones back on to hear either the weaker track (The incomin in the beginning of the transition or vice versa) or to hear both.

P.S. Very important
Folks, you can't perform a whole mix with one earphone cause U gotta normalize the volume and for that you need both ears free and earphone at 0 volume to reach maximum accuracy!

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[i][b]What I do is I'll shuttle between listening to the main speakers and the phones; that's why I always only half-cup one ear during a mix and sandwich the phones between my shoulders and my ear, so that I can just drop it off when I need to listen to the speakers and lift it up from my neck and sandwich it again when I sense something is wrong. Confused?

Looks cool like that as well.


Has anyone had this problem where you mixing sounds quite perfect when you hear it in the speakers but if you record it and listen to it afterwards it sounds as if the next track just interrupted heaps early, like nothing like you heard when you heard it through the speakers.

Just 4 words 4 ya:

EACH N EVERY TIME

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it depends on the quality of the monitors... if they are too shitty, i listen in the headphones to make sure that the records still match and which one needs to be speeded up.

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Originally posted by Xavier Has anyone had this problem where you mixing sounds quite perfect when you hear it in the speakers but if you record it and listen to it afterwards it sounds as if the next track just interrupted heaps early, like nothing like you heard when you heard it through the speakers.

ya, thats cuz listening to the speakers give you much more leeway then listenin to your recording on the headphones...

oh an yea, i use the headphones when im beatmatching, and take them off when mixing and listenin to the live thingy

I do it several ways depending on the place that I'm mixing. At home when I'm recording I can't have my music too loud out of my monitors, so I'll use only my phones, and I'll switch between on and off during a live mix. I think that this also depends on what type of mixer functions you have too though. On the djm-600 I can switch between full live and full cue, which most mixers can do, but I also have a stero/mono button that I can listen to the cue in one ear and the live in the other. This is pretty neat if your monitors suck. Once I was djing live infront of the main speakers and it was so loud that I couldn't hear myself think! The mono function really came in handy there!

I try to not use headphones even when I'm beatmatching...(?) What I mean is I'd normally get the cue track to be matched as close to the one playing as much as possible .. spending around 30-60 seconds max doing that.. then i'd take out the headphones.. let the cue one continue to play while i mess around with the one playing.. then i'd occasionally listen to the headphone making sure it continues to be matched and make minor adjustment accordingly. When in the process of mixing it's recommended to take the headphones off...this way u'll be able to listen to the mix more accurately. Try it...

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