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Stage 1 Your First Setup Course 4 of 5

Headphones and Cueing Properly

Beginner 10 lessons · 1 h 4 min

Cueing is the skill that makes everything after it possible, and it is almost entirely about how you use one ear. What to buy, how to wear them, what you should actually be listening for, and - because it comes up constantly - whether you can get away without them.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Choose headphones that will survive the job
  • Wear and hold them the way that leaves a hand free
  • Say what you are listening for in the cued ear
  • Set the cue mix and monitor level on a club mixer

Lessons

  1. Why a DJ uses headphones at all

    9:40

  2. Buying headphones that will last

    4:21

  3. How to wear them, and why it matters

    0:51

  4. What a DJ is actually hearing in there

    12:05

  5. The best way to monitor

    4:33

  6. Headphones and cue on a club mixer

    5:25

  7. Getting to grips with the cue button

    7:17

  8. Cueing a track on a CD deck

    3:32

  9. Mixing without headphones

    Optional 9:09

    For when the booth leaves you no choice.

  10. Beat mixing on the speakers alone

    Optional 7:23

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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