Right or Left?
I am right-handed and I’ve always cued with me right ear.
What do you guys do?
Is there a difference? Any theories?
I think I tried switching it up years ago for research and I bounced right back to my right side.
Right or Left?
I am right-handed and I’ve always cued with me right ear.
What do you guys do?
Is there a difference? Any theories?
I think I tried switching it up years ago for research and I bounced right back to my right side.
Right-handed, cue with left leaving the right ears for the monitor… for no specific reason… not that I remember of. Probably the same reason why I can’t (or at least hate) to have the mixer in the centre of my setup… mixer at the left…everything else (CDJ, TT, controller whatever) or the right side.
Sometime, I play in a place where the monitor is on the left side… always irritate me ![]()
right handed, use my left ear. the cable hooked to the headphones is on the left side and I dont like touching it when I cue.
It doesnt really matter. I cue with both hands and my right ear.
right handed, i cue with the ear where the headphones cable come in so it doesn’t bother me too much. I’m back to my RPDJ now so right ear.
I cue with my left ear because I have tinnitus/high frequency hearing loss in my right ear… (It happened while swimming)
Right handed, and I used to cue with my left ear before we had a Cue Mix option on mixers; now I just stick the headphones on and use both ears.
beatmatch with both sides of the headphones on, mix using the monitor, cables gotta be on the left though
Right handed, right ear for me.
left-handed, right ear to monitors unless I’m using IEMs.
this.
Left handed, cue mostly in my left ear but there’s been a few occasions where the setup I was playing on had the monitor only on the left side so I cued with my right ear. I guess that makes me aurally ambidextrous?
I cue with both ears at once.
You heard me.
Left handed, cue with left ear, right ear for monitors if available… otherwise I stick on a Clubland CD… ![]()
Ambidextrous, and I use both ears equally, unless the monitoring situation calls for a change (i.e., good/cleaner monitor on right side, so I left ear cue). But generally when I’m cueing left deck, it’s on left ear, right deck, right ear. back and forth… that’s my habit I guess. I don’t really think about it much, I just started doing it. I think at one point I realized that my cue ear was getting more fatigued so I started to switch it up to give them a rest.
I also keep my cue volume much lower than I used to. I’m super anal about my hearing now that I have a tiny bit of tinnitus.
Similar, I favour right ear… usually when I hit play ill put use the headphones with both ears ( I always have master through headphones) A friend of mine and I often pay back to back and he likes the cue signal mono with only cued track in ear, so it routine for us both when changing out, flick the stereo/ mono switch and hit master cue.
I cue with no headphones. That makes both ears.
How? ![]()
Prep tools and hotcues bro ![]()
Actually I can DJ dubstep on real vinyl with no headphones. Beat that! ![]()
(it’s all 140 and you use just stickers to cue)