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Hi All

Just curiious.

When monitoring your mixes, do you ever switch your headphones to Master during a fade so that you can hear through your headphones exactly what is being output to the crowd?

I do this so that i can make minor adjustmemts to EQs if required during a fade.

I'm completely self taught so was wondering if my technique is different from the norm?

 
发表时间 Wed 16 Jan 08 @ 8:53 am
for me it depends on alot of factors. environment is a big one. if the venue has particularly bad monitors or the too much reverberation, i might do a large part of my mixing completely in the phones.

sometimes if a beatmatch is hard to hold, ie there are discontinuities between track a and b, i would use master pfl to about 40% to really hear minute differences in pitch.

in a good environment, i dont use master pfl that often.

there is one thing i do use master/channel pfl for quite often is to do level checking for both eq and gain. i might a/b the pfl from channel to channel or the master/channel pfl to sweep across and check the volume. its important as a dj to gauge loudness through all parts of the mix.

 
I check everything in the headphones 1st. I adjust the gains and eq getting the volumes and sound the way I want it as I'm adjusting the pitch slider matching the tempo. Once I get the tempo matched and feel confident in the mix I take my headphones off and turn the booth monitor up. I wait for my mix point, joc the record, move the fader and adjust my mix if its off. I rarely use my headphones to mix , only to preview. Having a good booth monitor is essential.
 
Yeah I do that! it's better for me than one ear in the headphone and the other exposed to the venues system speakers, even if there a monitor in the booth as well. I have had stick for doing it most recently when i bought a new mixer I had the headphones on and was listerning to side A and then i hit the B to listern to them both and the A side went dead. You can only listern to one side at a time as one cue button cancels the other one out the only way to do it is to use the phones mix rotary knob! but then no matter what item you have theres always something that you hate or that you think it should have.

Old skool way to check the out put volumes I still do it, all mixers have eq's on each channel now.
 
I use to use the headphones when I started, but I cant find headphones that can handle my levels, plus that makes the sounds disstort and get sloppy. I use a powered booth monitor that I take with me everywhere. I need alot of volume when I mix, deaf after 14 years. I just adjust the volume while in the mix, moniter in one ear cue on the other untill in the mix just use headphone for reference. I want to hear what the crowd is.
 
Yeah I have a pair of wharfedale EVP-XP 12's, you could do a disco with them.
 
I start the blend with one ear piece on one off.....and then reference back and forth the ear piece, on and off my ear for most of the blend...the biggest thing is never quite on the blend.
 
I que up the next track to about 2 mins into it, so I'm not court out by some nasty surprises. Once I'm happy with the timing and when I hit my que point to exit the track that has been playing, I will slow move the fader across, whilst listerning in the headphones at the new track. I normally only have a headphone on my left ear, the other ear I will listern to the monitor speakers.

When I'm about the 1/3 away across I take my headphones off and listen to the mix with the monitors, to get the volume and eq right. I will sometimes put a headphone to my ear again just to make sure the beats are sounding nice and neat.

Jimmy b

 
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youve seriously abused your ears if you need that kind of volume, be careful mate, tinnitus is gonna screw you one of these days if it hasnt already. i have a pair of these custom moulded dual-driver monitors (you can get them cheaper in the states, but i know this guy). theyre amazing.

if you really wanted you could abuse your eardrums even more with these, but i find you need alot less volume to hear something because they block alot of sound and require alot less volume to get the signal into the brain. but even then, your volume knob is at 3% compared to what standard headphones require....

you can never spend enough on the safety of your hearing, especially if it's your money maker....

i also have the earplugs with 9db and 15db filters. i never go into a club without them as i have sensitive hearing and the clubs give me headaches after an hour. never again after using these babies...
 
I will have to look into that. I just hate alll headphones now a days because they try to reproduce so much bass that the headphones always distort and I end up blowing them out after a couple of months. I just like the monitor to be lound and have the bass, I want to feel my mix to get me into it.
 
jimmy b wrote :
When I'm about the 1/3 away across I take my headphones off and listen to the mix with the monitors, to get the volume and eq right. I will sometimes put a headphone to my ear again just to make sure the beats are sounding nice and neat.



I use that method too.. take them off right before the middle,, or when I do fast Cut-fades; I usually litsen to the fade a couple of times in my headphones before I let it go to the monitors...
 
I just use the "one ear in the phones" method :)
 
I use a single ear cup on a stick, either store bought or self made. In the club I have a Yamaha 15' monitor, powered by a Crown Macro-Tech 1200. My mobile gigs I have a Mackie 450 as a monitor. My signal is both channels combined for the monitors. I also have it calibrated so if it's too loud in the booth, it's too loud in the club.
 


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