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DJ Tips & Tricks: Use Your Headphones As A Mic (Oldskool Hack!)

Your headphones can double as a microphone in case you forgot to pack one with you. Check out our quick tutorial on how it works.

Can’t find the mic in the DJ booth, or maybe you forgot to take one along? No problem! You can use your headphones as an emergency microphone. It’s a trick that DJs have been using for decades – check out this DJ tutorial and try it out at your next show.

Watch this on YouTube.

It won’t sound as good as a standard microphone, but it works in a pinch and it’s clear enough that your dancefloor can hear you when you speak into it.

Any other oldskool DJ hacks you’d want to share with us? Do so in the comments below.

Joey Santos: Manila-based Joey Santos is the Managing Editor of Digital DJ Tips. A DJ since 1999, he ran a successful recording studio for many years, and is a music producer and sound engineer too. He is the tutor for our Dance Music Formula and Music Production For DJs courses.
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