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| bluu |
| I can't seem to DJ outside of my headphones. I explain, after finding the bpm, etc... i throw the record and mix but with my headphones on. I could hear what's going on in speakers, but I prefer to do it though my headphones, because I could be more precise with the knobs and volumes. If i try it just using the speakers though, it doesn't sound as well when I listen to it. Would you say this is a bad habit, or does it really matter? Does any one else do as I do? Any suggestions? |
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| tu_face |
it mainly depends on what you find works best for you. personally, i always keep an ear on the incoming track, but i always keep it very quiet so i can concentrate on both equally.
i think its a bad habit to take your headphones off and do it solely through the speakers, without checking your headphones every now and again. this is because i find you can notice something going out of time in the headphones before you can tell on the speakers, and then correct it before it is noticable. |
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| FirstBorn |
| I agree but sometimes you have no choice but to mix off the monitors. I played a gig last night where the mixer was so there was no headphone mix at all and all I could was cue up the next track and then mix in off the speakers. Actually wasn't too bad because I taught myself to mix off monitors way before I could properly headphone mix. Could've been a nightmare though. ;) |
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| Zild |
| Theres nothing really wrong with mixing in the headphones until you get a gig with a mixer that doesn't have split cue. Personally I like to beatmatch one ear listening to the cue and one ear listening to the monitor. Then, when I have both tracks playing at the same time I'll switch the headphones over to master and put the phones on both of my ears. That way I seem to be able to make any corrections I need to make just a little bit faster than if I'm listening to the master signal coming out of the monitors. |
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| MR STROKE |
| i have the same problem, i can mix smooth as hell when mixing both records in the headphones, but when spilting them up it sounds like ....the only thing i see wrong is that is you ever play out it could be a problem..... |
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| foranAngel4553 |
| the Sony Mdr-v700 have porno look :p |
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| eyeball_2003 |
| i do that too, and i see it as a bad habit, i need to learn to do it with one ear to the headphones and one exposed to the speakers, i find that there is a small delays in the sound coming out the speakers tho compared wiv the headphones, so that makes it harder |
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| Nemesis44 |
I mix mainly in the phones because I like it that way but I have to say that neither is wrong and as stated earlier there will always be situations where you will be forced to do one or the other.
You will probably find yourself in the situation where you have to mix of the main soundsystem too and that is a lot harder I can tell you. Depending on the positioning of the speakers of course.
A good thing to do, and I know Freak has done this too is to mix without phones just on your speakers to see how quickly you can match and have less sound quality to rely on. It's worth getting used to hearing the sound in all sorts of ways as you never know exactly what a club owner is going to throw at you.
Cheers
Nem |
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| dj_lane |
| its personal preferance, im the same way, I never use a pa |
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| Sunnyside |
Quote; "A good thing to do, and I know Freak has done this too is to mix without phones just on your speakers to see how quickly you can match and have less sound quality to rely on. It's worth getting used to hearing the sound in all sorts of ways as you never know exactly what a club owner is going to throw at you."
How do you beatmatch two tunes when you cannot hear one of them? Or are you saying you release the tune to be beatmatched, allow the galloping beats to be heard through the speakers, and then adjust accordingly? |
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