It sounds like i’m being ridiculous but Do some DJs not use Headphones? Waveriding?
It sounds like I’m being ridiculous but Do some DJs not use Headphones?
Waveriding
Skrillex is too cool or headphones. Did you listen to him play? I wouldn’t need headphones either if I stopped and started the songs.
As for the others, I’m too tired to watch them, but I.E.M.
I prefer headphones however.
I say 12 posts before this turns into a Skrillex thread.
lol
“Dont mention the skrillex” i think i mentioned it once but i got away with it.
How many on the top 100 DJ list wear headphones?
most
Without a monitor, you get to find out what your mix sounds like at the same time as the audience, which equates to bad mixes and bad DJing in my book. It’s your last line of defence and a valuable tool.
I know what your saying I like headphones. But area they becoming optional?
And I disagree with this completely. So, the answer is that its just personal preference.
Why?
What is the advantage of not being able to hear what your mix is going to sound like, before you play it to other people?
How often do you cue up a tune in your headphones to hear which remix to play?
How often do you cue the mix up in your headphones, and the two together remind you of a better song to play?
What happens when you bring the next song in and the keys clash horribly?
With headphones - you select a different track
Without headphones - your audience hears your shitty, shitty mix
…it just seems nonsensical to get rid of something will prevent you failing, and the only thing that can guarantee (if there is any doubt) that the thing you are about to present to an audience will sound good.
I know Steve Angello has gotten a lot of criticism for not wearing headphones. Lot of people called him out for pre-recording his mixes, he touched on it in his DJMag interview for the Top 100. I dont know if any of it is true but I do know that he doesnt always/rarely wears headphones.
Steve angello = bad example
Roger Sanchez + dj sneak + digweed = good examples
once I know a mix is beat matched I tend not to use the headphones anymore.
If I didn’t need to do beat matching (ie use sync button) I wouldn’t see any need for headphones.
If you know your music well enough and practice your mixing in the same way you know what part to bring a song in you can do it without headphones. The technology is there that you can watch the wav and know where you’re at in the music. if thats cheating and so horrible then petition Serato and native Instruments to put in layouts with no wavs, no spinning little turntables, no bpm display, no cue points, no nothing except your music folders and what songs are loaded in which deck and track times. Check the vid out I posted…thats no headphones in harlem…
Is it possible that they have wireless in-ear monitors?
I would say its not possible because the audio quality would be terrible and not good enough or loud enough to use to mix with. It woudn’t be totally wireless to have quality good enough to monitor and you would clearly see an in ear monitor with a wire going to a remote pack.
I’ve played tracks I know really well without headphones, I just remember where my cue points are and what the tracks sounds like. but I’d NEVER play out without headphones.
I don’t think this would be the best source to base your decision.
Personally, I prefer keeping the headphones available for the reasons lethal explained. I don’t care how “the big djs” are doing it really.
I have a couple routines that I can mash together, and so I don’t really need headphones for that, but it’s always handy. And I would always have them pluged in just in case.
I’d never heard of waveriding until this thread.
It could be that they’ve already warped & rendered their tracks at the same tempo. (Is this cheating? You decide…)
Don’t know if I’d trust beat matching on sight alone - you wouldn’t cook by smell alone, so why beatmatch on sight?
As a side note I cook 90% by smell and use headphones.
There really is no need to do that…there is a bpm display that tells you the bpm, you have a pitch control so you can adjust accordingly and you have key lock to keep the pitch so it doesn’t sound like a chipmunk. Its funny that 20 years ago I would time out the tempo of every record and write it on the label or put it on a sticker on the record sleeve and that was considered smart, nowadays its “cheating” to look at the BPM…makes no sense