my ddj-400 came in and I was wondering during the learning phase can I get by with just headphones?
I know when you have speakers you need headphones to listen to your mix ahead of time. Should I just buy some used monitors and an interface?
Posted Apr 8, 2020, 1:22 PM UTC
You definitely can go just with headphones. Moreover, I heard advices to learn beatmatching / mixing in your headphones, as sometimes you might not have monitor speakers in a dj booth.
I would recommend speakers else your DJ experience is limited.
Furthermore I would recommend investing some more cashs into your speakers for they don't have to be limited for only DJing but just for the sake of having decent speakers at your home for further use.
You can get by with just headphones for sure! Not ideal as you can only really use the EQ’s and the volume sliders don’t really do anything when your cued up in your cans
Thanks for the info, when i get some basic transitions down would it be time for monitors and headphones?
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You can get by without speakers pretty well. The only time I really practice with my speakers is when I'm practicing on-the-fly cueing. Otherwise, I'm good with my headphones. The RCA out will go to any speaker system, so use whatever--I use a bluetooth speaker via RCA to 3.5mm, it's good since my apartment has paper-thin walls.
I haven't used rekordbox or the ddj400 - does it have a Cue/Mix knob? If so you'll be fine.
yeah it does
All good then. I use headphones basically every practise session.
I started out learning to dj through my old home stereo. Just ran the line out from my mixer to the aux. Wasn't great, but good enough to learn on. Just have to watch the bass on those speakers, cause they weren't really made for it!
I am right now in a place where I can turn on speakers but very low volume so it just doesn't work for me. I plug in main phones to my technics amp (i use it to produce sound but you can plug it in pc audio), tell rekordbox to output audio through pc and use some smaller phones for your CUE, I use regular small phone buds, it's not the best, but if you are bound to phones and want to have CUE too, it's perfect! Just try to level the sound of both phones so the song levels match
I only use speakers when I'm playing at a friend's house. When I'm at home, I solely mix in my headphones as I don't want to be a loud neighbor (I live in an apartment). Press the Cue button that's under the Master level knob to hear your master output in your headphones. That works for me.
Good headphones and learn on them
on the ddj 400 u can hear the master output and the cue in ur headphones at the same time and just purely mix in that. it’s wat i use a lot when i don’t want to annoy my neighbors late at night
really? do i just press the cue button haha idk how it works
Underneath the master level there’s a cue button. If u press that and have the track cue on u should be able to hear both tracks at once. Above the headphones level is a headphones mixing knob and u can twist that to change how much of the master or the cue u can hear
yes you can, but i highly recommend getting some speakers.
Your DDJ400 has a built-in audio interface btw.