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Beatmatching using only headphones

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  • May 8, 2014 at 8:31 am #2029230
    Lamid45G
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    Actually its a really good practice beatmatching inside your headphone, I called this Inside Mixing, its especially useful when you found yourself in the club with the speaker monitor delayed, and there is a lot of clubs had this kind of problem (and refused to acknowledged it)

    There is no the “right” way to practice a beat matching, every individual style is different, whatever floats your boat i reckoned

    May 8, 2014 at 8:56 am #2029242
    Terry_42
    Keymaster

    Yeah do it however you are comfy with. If you have beatmatching down really solid (aka you can do it in your sleep) it will start not mattering to you how you do it anyways.
    Same as with counting bars, really important but after 20+ years it is so in your flesh that I can sit in a bar enjoying a cocktail listening to background music and you could come up and ask “transition in?” and I could answer how many bars from now hehe.

    May 8, 2014 at 11:11 am #2029289
    Groovepunk
    Participant

    The only thing I would add to this that if you do beatmatch in your headphones, make sure you take them off as you do the transition. This seems obvious but I’ve witnessed someone keep their headphones on and they didn’t realise they were gradually mixing into the wrong channel, which happened to be silence!

    I would also say that once you’re happy beatmatching in you headphones, practice occasionally with speakers as I recently used a bar mixer that didn’t have cue mix and had to use the booth monitors only 🙂

    May 8, 2014 at 2:53 pm #2029350
    Karl
    Participant

    @GroovePunk That is actually my issue. I wouldn’t want to be so used to it, that if I show up at a place with a mixer that doesn’t have a cue mix functionality. Then again, maybe I’ll start getting used to it in the headphones first, and once I get the hang of it pretty much, I’ll see how I go with the monitors.

    Thanks! 🙂

    May 8, 2014 at 3:18 pm #2029359
    Groovepunk
    Participant

    I wouldn’t worry too much about that – they’re not exclusive skills (headphone beatmatching/one-ear monitor beatmatching). Once you can do one, you can do the other.

    My recommendation was just to keep yourself accustomed with the slightly different feel of one-ear booth monitor beatmatching so that it doesn’t feel too weird. I tend to beatmatch mostly in headphones (mainly due to having grumpy, sound-sensitive neighbours) but it only took a couple of tracks to mix perfectly fine using the other technique when I had to.

    Just relax and enjoy learning (well done for resisting BPM counters and sync btw)!

    Let us know how you get on 🙂

    May 22, 2014 at 4:55 pm #2033164
    Casie Lane
    Participant

    For the past 2 months I’ve been trying to get the managers at my residency at this wicked awesome tapas bar to bring in monitors for me. But since the other DJs use computers while I’m on my USBs (I like to travel light!), they say its not necessary.

    At least I get some good practicing and I feel challenged somewhat while I take in the beautiful atmosphere there. 🙂

    So my words for encouragement: practice, practice, and keep on practicing. You might end up at a gig where there are no monitors or crappy monitors but you’ll be prepared with no sweat and be all like, “yo, I got this!”

    May 22, 2014 at 6:03 pm #2033194
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Uhm Casie, I am kinda lost as to what difference it makes whether you are using CDJs with an USB stick or a computer with DJ software when it comes to using monitors?

    May 22, 2014 at 6:13 pm #2033202
    Casie Lane
    Participant

    they say I’m the only one who asks why no monitors. :/

    I know one of the DJs mixes internally from the computer, but I guess ur right. How would it make a difference? Maybe I should ask them again. lol

    May 22, 2014 at 6:27 pm #2033209
    DJ Vintage
    Moderator

    Yeah … in both cases only the input side is different, PA is the same I am guessing.

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