ironbrew
04-21-2012, 05:02 AM
Hey,
Had my first set in a club last night, the resident dj there wants to train me up from using my laptop to their serato + cdj set up.
My setup consisted of my macbook -> focusrite interface -> their mixer. My headphones were plugged into my interface, though I could not hear AT ALL through them. Luckily this wasn't too big an issue as I've been using ableton live anyway, so beatmatching was on easy-mode, though I could see this being fairly major in the future.
My headphones are the headphones I use for production as well, and thus semi-open backed, would this make a huge difference? They also have a fairly high impedance so are quiet in comparison to other headphones. Do I need new headphones?
For reference, I noticed when I got home that they were driven FAR higher than I'd listen to music comfortably at home anyway... And the DJ turned the system down a little for mine and his sets as he thought the previous dj was driving it too hard.
I really don't want this to turn into a massive issue and I'm nervous enough about the whole things as it is, so any tips would be awesome :)
EDIT: there was no monitors in the booth to mix from by the way, I had headphones, and the punters had the club system
Had my first set in a club last night, the resident dj there wants to train me up from using my laptop to their serato + cdj set up.
My setup consisted of my macbook -> focusrite interface -> their mixer. My headphones were plugged into my interface, though I could not hear AT ALL through them. Luckily this wasn't too big an issue as I've been using ableton live anyway, so beatmatching was on easy-mode, though I could see this being fairly major in the future.
My headphones are the headphones I use for production as well, and thus semi-open backed, would this make a huge difference? They also have a fairly high impedance so are quiet in comparison to other headphones. Do I need new headphones?
For reference, I noticed when I got home that they were driven FAR higher than I'd listen to music comfortably at home anyway... And the DJ turned the system down a little for mine and his sets as he thought the previous dj was driving it too hard.
I really don't want this to turn into a massive issue and I'm nervous enough about the whole things as it is, so any tips would be awesome :)
EDIT: there was no monitors in the booth to mix from by the way, I had headphones, and the punters had the club system