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Originally posted by fishfish i'm not trying to copy anyone, but it seems that you get the beats aligned for further time if you listen carfully that way, and fix the errors really fast before someone even notice, otherhow why almost every superstar dj don't take off his headphones while mixing ????

ffs
because on the mixers they use, they probably have the option to fade between live and cue in their headphones
like was mentioned earlier
you obviously don't have that option, so you're just going to have to try something else

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I don't know if this will help you and if i can word it correctly but ill try...


Track A: Live
Track B: Cued Track

get your beats matched and sync and everything, When you start to bring track B in and you can hear it in live, switch your Headphones from Track B to Track A, that way Track A is now the Cued Track(kinda). Now when you make your transition you are listening to Track A and monitoring it through your headphones.

Or

Get a mixer that you can fade between live and cue..


I don't know if this'll help you but.. whatever ;d

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I say best way is close your eyes

lift up your right hand and try to sense the bass waves

and when you catch that then go to other record and put your ear close to cartridge and catch the bass wave as well

get the two synchronized, ears and eyes closed.

it works1

i stand by my previous comments!

take them off

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Again, if you must try to copy what the other djs are doing, here is another suggestion, and then another comment on why you might not want to mix this way with your mixer.

If you want to have one headphone on one ear, then slide it back and press it hard against your head. Then listen and feel how well the headphone beat matches up to the beats coming from your monitors.

You are making it much more difficult on yourself by wanted to do it this way though. If you can't listen to both live and cue in both ears at the same time, and if you do use the monitors to help beat match, then you will always be off due to the delay in sound you get from your monitors compared to your headphones. Sure this is a feedback situation where you can hear if you becoming unbeatmatched (so you can correct it), but it makes it a bit more difficult to adapt to this situation and there is lag associated with it.

If you can listen to both live and cue in both ears at the same time then I'm still failing to see what your problem is. You can use one ear, just like you want to. Use your headphone to listen to the beatmatching and listen to the monitors to keep track of volume levels.

thank all of you guys, i will try to work out something from all the things you have mentioned, feel free to submit any more methods...

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