Now, the opposite can apply. Let us say that the CDJ is playing the music out of the main PA so you can hear the music and to the CDJ. Now then, the DJ then can hear the music that I playing out of the main speakers. But by pressing a couple of buttons, he can then hear the music that is playing on the vinyl turntable without you hearing it. Now, that is the main thing. That is the whole policy and philosophy behind using headphones. And when you see a DJ using headphones, that is what he is doing. Now, I will give you a demonstration. Let us put the volume up on the turntable. [music playing]
Now then, what I need to do, and you need to watch a few other videos so you can see exactly what buttons I am pressing, etc. But, what I am doing now, volume up on the turntable. [music playing]. Now, what I am going to do now is that I am now going to cue up the actual volume or cue up the CDJ and listen to the CDJ only through my headphones and not through the main PA, just through my headphone. So, I am going to cue this up ready using this no my right ear. Okay, now I am listening now to this in my headphone, the volume on the mixer of this channel is down. Now, I am going to slowly bring the volume up on this channel and have a listen.
Okay. There you go. Now, that is up and that is finished. What I was doing is basically, I was listening to this through this headphone. I was listening to the CDJ while the volume was down, I could hear this channel. I could also hear the main PA through my other ear. You could hear the PA out there but you could not hear what was coming through here. What I am going to do now is that I am going to wind this turntable back a little bit. I am going to mix it properly now utilizing headphones to listen to this one and utilizing the main PA so you guys can listen to this but you cannot listen to the headphones. And then, as I slowly increase the speed, you will actually be able to hear what I am listening to as well through the headphones. But at the same time, what is happening is that the volume that is coming through this headphone will slowly be coming through the main PA as well, and that when we start to get the mix. That is what is happening. The music then is starting to mix. So let us try it. [music playing]
Okay. So what I will do now is slowly bring the volume up. Let us start it off again. Okay. And go. [music playing]. All right, counting the bass, if you are at the pause now, All right, here we go. Now, I can hear through my headphone here this one but you cannot hear it because the volume is still down. Now, I am going to start increasing the volume. Now, you could start to hear the other channel as well. [music playing]. There you go.
So that is the basic there. That is the principle behind using the headphones. Now again, if you think about it, if someone would just say, well, you play that, listen through here and you play that on the PA. Fair enough, you may be explaining it. But, what I am trying to do in my video is explain it as in depth as possible so anyone can understand it. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy.
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