Hey everyone,
So lately I've been playing out more than normal and I can't help but notice that every club I play in, or every rave I play at (minus a few), I can never clearly make out my mixing through the booth monitors that they have in the club, ever. I'm used to mixing on my Studio Monitors (Mackie MR8's) at home, and when I go to the club to mix, it's like I can barely make out the melodies of the two tracks I'm mixing.
I've always been told to never use my headphones soley to mix through, even though it seems to make more sense when you can't really clearly make out what's happening on the booth monitors.
My question to you all is: Have any of you switched over the in ear monitors (the little earbud headphones that Laidback Luke uses) as your primary source of monitoring? If so, what is it like? Do you ever find yourself thinking that your mix sounds fine in your monitors but on the club PA it sounds just fine?
All the veteran DJ's I've asked have said that you should never use these as you can have instances where you think you sound fine through your in ear monitors, but you actually sound terrible on the club PA, but then I see guys like Laidback Luke using them to mix with and having them in ear the entire time, while going to new venues daily and not knowing much about the acoustics of the room/setup of the sound system in the venue.
What do you all think? Can in ear monitors be used as a primary monitoring source as opposed to relying on what are often very shitty booth monitors?
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