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This man doesn't miss. Quality videos

this guy absolutely knows what hes talking about. headphone master/cue knobs are an absolute god-sent at peak time when everything around you is dark, loud and crazy, in a club with a shitty sound system, or when the monitor crapped out for some reason. knowing how to send it all directly to your ears is crucial in these situations. you can just create your own personal shangri-la for 20-30 seconds when ear-fatigue has set in and you are lost in the mix and really dont want to fuck up your next transition because you are recording or something. its an invaluable tool to manage your anxiety in these certain stressful situations. cheers m8

learned mixing without a monitor ages ago, this is really good stuff to teach the youngins. good work. oh and a point I think you didn't touch on is that you definitely need to take your headphones off while playing so you can hear what it sounds like, in addition to hearing the crowd. Your headphones always sound the same, the venue doesn't. Maybe the mixer doesn't. You are responsible for how it sounds in that room at that time. The levels of bass etc might sound perfect inside your headphones, but the room is booming with too much bass or the highs are like knives in peoples ears.

I do exactly what you showed because of the neighbors and I always thought that these are my amateur methods and here it turns out that this should be done even in a club :) thx

You are the best DJ teaching channel on KZfaq,you explain everything so simply and easily to understand

Mixed at my first party during the weekend. Got loads of compliments and had such a Fun time. Used many of tips you’ve given and they worked so well. Thanks man, keep the videos coming :).

I do exactly this when practising at home, you are 100% correct in that you hear so much more detail when monitoring straight in your headphones, I have performed many home sets for recording just with headphones and it now is my go to preference, only have the speakers on when a few buddys over for playtime lol

Learnt more in two weeks watching these than ever before!

Also great to learn on headphones only in case you get a gig where the booth monitors are crap....or if they don't have any at all. Cheers Andrew, another great upload

Haha Im a relatively new DJ and I've only been mixing with headphones at home so its good to see a video saying this is a good practice.

This was a really useful video! I’ve been struggling to use my ddj-1000srt controller without disturbing my housemate and now I don’t have to! Take a like a this positive comment for your good work sir! 👍🏻

another solid video, great to see the traction for the channel it wasn't long ago when there were only 1000 of us! well deserved!

The video I've been waiting for! Thanks man.

I love all these videos... Even someone as myself who's been doing it for a while can still learn a lot and just watching your mixing techniques is fun and inspiring

Love the video, very helpful

Great video as usual keep it up. Love the content.

This video was super relevant. Awesome advice and very well explained. Keep up the great work mah man. 😃🤙🏾

Was searching for this kind of tutorial ... For the perfect use and importance of headphones... Finally found this... Thank you for the hard work...

One understanding DJ with the tricks and handy little and big bits of important information all done with the passion that is being a DJ 🎼💙👌😏 Massive hi 5⁵s to you man for these vids 🙌

Cheers man this is so useful, I got a noise complain yesterday so this will be helpful as g

Another class video!

You can tell that this guy is genuinely nice. This technique is great if you're playing in a place that doesn't have the best monitoring, just make sure to take care of your hearing. Thanks for the video.

Great video Andrew.

Thanks Andrew! Another killer video. I’m going to get to know my annoying mate the Master/Cue dial a little better. Great tip!

New to the scene, had to figure this one out for the sanity of my partner but still a really good video! The new issue that has come from this is tapping hands and feet that is driving her mad 😂 Love the content!

Thanks Andrew great video full of useful tips and advice esp about taking the headphones off when mixing live to a crowd definitely agree being 'in the headphones' can take you away from the energy response from the dancers..thanks again mate

I was just preparing songs for a new set yesterday. Than I hear the music kick in @2:38 and I went like "hey, i know that song ... and love it".

This is so good. Can't wait to try it. The only time I have is at night when my kids are in bed so I obviously can't have booming monitors. Been just listening through laptop speakers - not good. Thanks Andrew!

Ive started doing this only in this last year. On Denon kit you have "Split cue", not sure if thats on Pioneer or others. But i can have the master in my right ear, and Cue on the left. It took some getting used too but now i really like using it this way. Even when im in the radio studio doing a live set on FM i just leave my in-ear earphones in for the whole time. Never using Booth or studio monitors, just dont need them. Also when at home and doing this, it leaves my Booth-Out empty, so i now use this feed for live streams and capture the audio from the booth output.

You are the man!

Thanks for this it helped me out a lot

I've been wearing headphones almost everyday of my life at 56 years. My everyday headphones 🎧 are the Bose Quiet Comfort ll Q35 headphones. For the mix l use my sturdy Sony's MDR-V6 headphones. Good information and Subscribed ☑️

Actually just bought these headphones 3days ago when my old ones died. Can't wait for them to be here and get going

Iv'e watched so many videos about mixing in just Headphones, & you have explained it so much better than anyone else! Your a born teacher! Iv'e mixed without taking my headphones off for years, coz when i used to play at outdoor festivals & dingy clubs, the monotors where crap! I even used to take a separate Amp to connect to the mixer, so i could turn up the volume for the Headphones, coz the mixers where rubbish & was a struggle to hear! But now i only play at home for fun, & very rarely take them off as i can hear every little detail (so much better than listening to a Monitor) But each to there own! Love watching your videos Andrew, wish i would of had the options people have today (Videos, Mixing courses) Etc! What is the youngest age for your courses? My Son is 6 & i want him to learn, as does he, but when i try & let him on my Decks he just messes about & looses concentration, then i loose interest & we don't get anywhere. Anyway Buddy, Keep smiling.....

Very helpful tutorial 👍 👌 😀

thank you so much!

Dude you are 100 percent right, i am half deaf in one ear and I find this method with the cue mix knob so much easier than mixing to a quiet monitor, I find having the cue mix knob at 10 or 11oclock you can really monitor the track that's going out good as well. Some other guy on youtube made a video about mixing with no headphones and how the big djs are just so good they dont need them, what a load of rubbish they are just using sync and line matching, you are better mixing with only headphones than without them if your doing it properly. Cool video anywayz!!!

Solid gold. Solid G.O.L.D

Awesome Guy......really like his teaching style

When I started out playing some 7ish years ago I learnt off of the old school DJ's and they only use one head phone and a booth monitor. One day the booth monitor broke and the mixing to say the least was rough as houses. It took me a while to learn the technique in this video but I wish I'd known it at the time when the booth monitor broke! I think a lot of us modern DJs become reliant and lazy watching the waveform on our macs however when you do back to backs and DJ swap-overs, this technique is so important once again.

Great advice, I have also added wireless headphones to my amp so my m8 can dance about while I am mixing in my headphones at 2am lol, still have all the lights flashing etc but its silent. Also good for livesteams at night. Can't belive I waited so long to do it this way.

Thank you for explaining this so clearly!

its how i started mixing with vinyl and tried various ways to mix in headphones or out loud, the other way i use is having both earphones on and have the cued up track playing in headphones but quiter than the track playing out and find the balance in the beats between them then fine tune using the headphone mix

I started mixing about 20 years ago on a denon dual cd player, like the 2100F along wtih a basic numark mixer with no gains and one 5 band eq for all channels. Additionally, i had no monitors. The speakers were a good 1m in front of me. Trying to mix out loud was challenging, as there was slight delays. I had to learn to mix in my headphones. Admittedly, in loud clubs, i often had my headphones really loud as a result. A lot of djs taking over were a little shocked at why my headphones were so loud. It was just due to finding it easier to hear the two tracks together.

I TOTALLY NEEDED THIS VIDEO AS Im NOT TAKING MY cdj3000s outside to DJ !!! I WILL BE DJ'ing IN MY CONDO & CANNOT CREATE NOISE for my Neighbors !!! A MILLION THANKS FOR THIS VIDEO ANDREW !! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🎧🎧🎧🎶🎶🎶

I taught myself how to dj since on January I received a DDJ-800 and this is the approach that came natural to me. By the way i've improved a lot since i discovered your channel so massive thanks.

Learning DJ here, loving your very o formative videos!

you absolute genious

Using headphones 🎧 only can be quite difficult. Lol made my wife a mix once with just headphones, hahahaha, it was interesting to say the least. I’ve been using the cheaper Pioneer HDJ-1500’s for 6 years. They are ok for using at events because the BASS can be felt, but for just headphone mixing not up to par. Just mentioning I’m not a fan of wireless anything with events. XLR’s and 1/4” only. I’ll also add that your less apt to forget a piece of equipment when it come time to pack up after😉 As always, a good learning experience Andrew. Thanks.

I love your vids! Can you please make a review video of the CDJ-3000? 😀😀

Self-taught myself all this on the come up... Sometimes it's a bit tougher for an quick-firing Open Format/Hip Hop DJ who is mixing very quickly/intensely can't always do this, it just eats up too much time. But great video!

This is what I needed! Don't have to wait for my son to get off the xbox so I can play

Maybe you could do a video on prepping people to be prepared for / how to tackle obscure gear. Especially for those starting out. A lot of smaller bars and clubs often have mismatched gear and its usually not the latest gear as they've either bought different gear to save money or they're using older gear for the same reason, as they don't have someone there advising them of the value of servicing/updating gear. Over my dj career, i've lost count of the amount of times i've turned up to a venue to find random gear and mis-matched. If i wasn't prepared to a degree, i'd have struggled.

I’m new to DJ’ing in headphones.I thought it should be about time I considered my neighbours(I live in ground floor unit with people living directly above and adjacent)so learning how to mix just using headphones and it’s good for using isolation(total kill EQ)ramp up the fader and just bring in track with EQ’s. I must get myself an inexpensive enough($79)pair of ear plugs from store dj so I can crank headphones volume without perforation of eardrums! I’m using an Allen and Heath Xone 43 4 channel Analogue mixer with 2 x Denon SC5000M media players. Update: It’s like you were saying about just needing to experiment with your particular mixer and I managed to figure out how to do what you have described on my Allen & Heath Xone 43. I use the channel faders to adjust volumes in both earphones as well as being able to EQ the tracks in both ears! It’s good as I have dual layers(A+B)with waveforms on my players so I can always have 4 tracks displayed simultaneously(good for loops...etc)/and cued tracks to go! Thanks so much mate for this awesome mix in headphones method/tip! 👍

I am inspired to know that I do the same thing you do.

I really like your videos! Thank you for that! One sugestion though...maybe you want to get a microphone you clip to your t shirt. Your beautiful choice is sometimes a little bit lost in that room...😉

This js cool

If you're playing at home without good monitors, but feel like headphones hurt your ears/head after a while (if you have glasses for example) I'm mixing techno with CCA C10 in ears these days, sound is actually quite good for 35$ Not neutral, but hd25 or v-moda are not neutral either.. they are a little on the warm side, comfy and clear sounding.

Thank you for your passion and inspiration!! Would appreciate sooo much to see a video on fast pumping techno with higher bpm's and how to mix it when there is a lot of strong bass happening at she same time! Thinking of Dax J style. Thank you for your hard work anyway!

For those who use a controller(even thought there are some mixers that can also do this),they can just use split mono signal on their headphones,Cue playing on one side and Master playing on the other! This is how Laid Back Luke plays,thats why he keeps his ear pluggs always on!

-I can play on a main without booth and headphone -I can play on headphones without booth and main DJ's need to learn both. One for crappy or broken booths, and your headphone broke as well. The other for making midnight sets at home, and solo 'parties'. PS: if your booth and headphone is broken while playing vinyl, you can try pre-listening by keeping an ear close to the needle, you will hear the high hats.

Could you do another video focused on EQ mixing with close up shots of the EQ when mixing. I know you did there and before but maybe longer video. I’m doing what you did but isn’t a smooth when I try to lower the bass and raise the other sometimes I end up with an empty transition. Hard to explain as it’s sound but anyway love the Channel.

Your exactly right, beginners or even more advanced users who haven't used standalone or club gear use visuals too much instead of their ears. The so called Serato face.

Got a pair of HD25's recently, I think I'm ready!

Amazing this is just what I need since right now I'm in an apartment complex on the 5th floor. I'm going to be moving out to the suburbs soon to rent my own house. When you talk about your neighbors hearing your music, are you talking about the neighbors at the house all the way next door that's not connected to your place? Are they still able to hear it from within their house, and if they are, do you have to turn it up pretty darn loud for them to be able to hear it? How big of a gap is there between your house and theirs? I do wanna DJ with speakers when I have my own house; I'm probably gonna sound proof it as much as possible if this is the case.

Really good quality content. One suggestion; there still quite a lot of room echo on the audio. Your speech would be clearer if you moved the mic closer or addwd some anechoic panels.

that arbat remix what a track

I was test-driving ddj 400 out today and could not figure it out in-store, (the headphones only mixing) I also am so used to mixing with headphones only at home, and any new controller has to have this feature it is essential. Your videos are always so good you are by far one of the best DJs teaching online and I have learned stuff from you thank you. I am now contemplating switching from Traktor Pro 3 to rekordbox but rekordbox looks so complex. I like to beat juggle and drop samples over the playing tracks Traktor always stays in sync and I am used to that. although I believe rekordbox has dynamic beat grids? the question does this mean I can mix disco into house more easily? Does anyone have any knowledge on this to help me switch maybe even Serato? please comment I am mainly a hobbyist dj. massive respect for you for this youtube channel.

As always great video, but there is no reason i can think of that would make my neighbours skip a beat :D

Hi there! I really like the trick with the headphones you are explaining!! This way I won't disturb my neighbours and I just really like listening to music via headphones :) I was planning to buy the DDJ-200 since I would like to have a portable DJ controller. However, I see now that the DDJ-200 does not have the mixing knob. Is there another trick by which it can be done on the DDJ-200 or do you know another portable DJ controller which does have a mixing knob? Or do only bigger DJ controllers have this? Thanks a lot in advance!!

Wearing headphones makes DJ cool while walking outside lol hahahaha, and when your riding a train🤣🤣🤣

拜您为师。

I always have trouble hearing the headphones with big booth monitors.. also don’t want to pump the volume on them too much

Neighbours suck! :) Great tutorial. Thanks Andrew

Anyone know tge song he mix in at 9.58, I know it but don't remember the name or artist 🤔

I dont use headphones but with earphones they never come out of my ear the whole time I'm DJing

How about DJs running also the lighting/SPX board? Say a DJ duo where one runs the sound board and the other runs the lighting/SPX board? By "lighting/SPX" I mean strobe lights, laser lights, fog machines, disco balls, etc. Not just putting such on auto but trying to play with them as the other DJ plays with the music. Of course when one of the duo needs to go to the bathroom, smoke break, etc. the lighting/SPX can be put on auto.

Love the vid, pls allow to down load vids.

I really don't understand what's going wrong. I followed what you said with my ddj 400, but when I click the master cue and try to change the levels nothing happens. When I listen to both songs through headphones I can adjust volume level fine but the knob above headphone volume either makes both play together or if I spin it towards "master" it just shuts off the music completely. It's bizarre. And I also can't bring one track in or out with my volume faders while listening to both songs on headphones, it just plays both and I have no control over which one I want to be playing and which one I want to bring in so I just have to listen to both constantly. I give up on using headphones to listen to two songs, honestly. All they're good for is listening to a cued song and getting it ready while the other song plays through my speakers. I've even googled whether there's something wrong with my headphones settings on rekordbox somewhere but come up with nothing. I find djing so frustrating I nearly quit every day!

I have a question - you always seem to leave some bass (low) of the other song when mixing. You never seem to turn the Low completely down. Is there any reason for that? Because I was always told that mixing two basses hardly ever sounds good.

Bro, what's the song at 10:00, that last riff, fuck! It was the first song mixed by a very good dj from my country at Untold, it was wicked!

According to Oc Health I'm now officially deaf in my right ear. I wonder why...

All the mixes on my channel have been mixed with headphones 🎧 only.

I want to learn how to dj better, but my brain just isnt as quick as it used to be due to radiotherpy... any tips?

Just be conscious that tinnitus and permanent ringing in your ears is real. Also read up on how to protect your hearing.

I wear IEM's, and dont even use speakers at the house!!!

Sadly they don’t make quiet controllers 😂

Making this video pretending like people don’t just press sync and ship it