The sync button is saving my life & I dont like it!!

[jimbly1990]

I use Ministry of Sound ER-20s under over-ear headphones. Does the trick for me because I can't stand in-ears

[brian_johnstone]

in ears is something ive been thinking of too, the club i dj in has two rooms, the main room is set up brilliantly but the other has no booth speakers and the bass bins are built into the bottom front of the console, its an absolute nightmare.

[eeloe]

From years of mixing at home in my parents house on headphones, i'm used to not having a monitor......it's a bit of a pain in the ass to get used to, but i'd say in ear monitors are you only friend here!

[MrPopinjay]

Honestly I find it easier to mix purely in headphones than with headphones and monitors.

You can get ministry of sound branded ER20s? Weird.

[paulmac]

i used to work in a club where the capacity was around he 2500 mark, the position of the Dj booth i used to be in was to the side kinda behind all the major sound so my only option was to use the monitor provided or use just my earphones, i tended to use the monitor and as there was usually 3 of us in the booth we used to have the fucker cranked right the fuck up and we'd be partying in that booth haha, i kinda felt it relayed to the paying customers, they seen us going for it in the booth then thehy did the same all kinda bouncing of each other haha...good times

[Hippie]

If the monitors aren't setup right your mix will be out cos of the length of time it takes the sound from the main speakers to reach you in the booth. It will sound right in the booth, mixing to the sound from the main output, but when you bring a track in over the main out it will be in time but out of phase cos of the distance the sound has to travel.
You need to either setup the monitors properly in the booth or mix in your headphones as others have said.

[dodge]

The monitors in the DJ booth are right next to my ears. Literally right in front of the decks. I'll attach a pic so you can see. I really want to be able to use my earplugs when I mix but I feel the ER20's are too much of a cut for me to really be able to feel the impact of whats going on in the music. I'm thinking I might invest in some 10 or even 5db cut filters just to take the edge off. I also might start practicing mixing in the headphones, I've never been a fan of this method but it might be something I need to get into.

The monitors in the club are obviously controlled by the mixer but I feel I need to really crank them in order to hear em over the main speakers which is just destroying my ears. Next time I play I'm just gonna not touch the sync button once I get into the swing of things. I'm more than capable of mixing, I think a large percentage of the reason I was hitting the sync button is cos it was a big night and the pressure was on. To be fair I didn't know I was doing the main room until literally 30 secs before I was due to play. I've done the main room before but wasn't given time to prepare anything to follow the DJ that was on. I was ready to go mash up a foam party downstairs which is a totally different vibe. The boss was like "right, you go on in here now and the other DJ can do downstairs".

This is me in the DJ booth I am working with:

[MrPopinjay]

That is one cool looking booth

Do they have 3 turntables and 4 CD players in there?

[sobi]

I've had this happen to me in the past too. I chalk it up to a lack of experience. Just ignore the sync, and you'll get used to that system in no time... especially if you've been mixing for years already.

[papadamour]

I don't see a problem with using the sync button. If your objective is to deliver the best listening experience to your audience then why not do that by using the tools at hand?

For who's benefit would you not be using sync? Yours or your crowd's?

There are still a million other things you can do with your mixing that's not beatmatching.