ive always learned to beatmatch inside my headphones,with both songs cued, now i recently tried the method with one ear in headphones(with cued song) and listening to the monitor with the live song. obviously this way is harder. but which way do you guys do it?

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i do with one ear on and the other ear out, is fine for me couse this is how i did it since i started djing, i like it. -

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Split cue- one in each headphone cup.
I just prefer it that way- and i dont f8ck up my ears from having a loud monitor blasting out (i work 5 nites a week so i have to be careful)
I have the ability to have one cup on and use the monitor if needs be- this is how i did it for ages , but generally i use the split.

I beat match using the headphones only, most all mixers now-a-days have those pre-crossfader (master/cue) for your headphones only. By DJ'ing around quite often i've learned you can never trust having a monitor. plus i think its far more accurate listening to both the beats in the headphones alone, much more isolated and precise.

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Depends on the setup, but usually i mix with one ear in and one ear out. I like to be able to fade the headphones between the cue track and the live track, so i can hear a bit of both, but not all mixers have this functionality.

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HEADPHONES only ... i think you never realy can go wrong with that

i'm able to beatmatch with one ear in and out, but i find it much harder. when you beatmatch within your headphones, using that beautiful headphone cue xfader (i love that thing) both of your songs are about the same volume, as opposed to your monitor blasting much louder than your phones, making it difficult to really hear what's going on.
plus , about 1 or 2 months into dj'ing, i used to match with one ear in and out. then someone told me to try it in the headphones, and all of the sudden, my ear 'clicked' and i could really hear the perfect match (when it happened). so it helped to train my ear as well.

but i always mix in using one ear cued all the way to the incoming track and the other on the monitor.

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if i do it with 1 ear, should i be using split cue?

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Originally posted by Haunted if i do it with 1 ear, should i be using split cue?

yes

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Originally posted by Haunted if i do it with 1 ear, should i be using split cue?

nm that was stupid

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I do it one ear in and one out....since you can do that on any mixer, plus i like it better. i actually learned using the cue/master knob but then switched. I like this way better because you can just separate your ears...it's much easier to instinctively know which one is faster. i just kind of bob my head and switch between listening with my left ear and right ear...and if one's out of sync, i know which one it is without even thinking. It works especially well when you don't know the song that well...like if you're mixing using master/cue in your headphones you have to know which drum is which and whatnot.

Sometimes I'll do extreme fine tuning in the headphones, once they're matched. A lot of times I'm sure they're matched and i don't..whereas sometimes i'm not sure if they're very slightly off, so i put both ears on after something like 30 beats and move the knob around for a while to check.

Split cueing...that's a different story. If I had that i'd probably use it a lot of the time. But my mixer is cheap.

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Originally posted by Nabistai yes

why? i just tried it all that does is cut out the right cup and sends everythin to the left cup

i can turn off playing song,so that all i have in my left cup is the cued song,but whats the point? if i have my right cup off my ear, and im listening just to the left cup. and i turn split cue on and off,you cant even notice.. so why ?

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