T9 Xvive IN-EAR Monitors Are They Suitable for a DJ?

0:01 We're looking at the T9 in-ear monitors

All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're looking at the T9 in-ear monitors. First and foremost, I have got a few tutorials coming very shortly, so hold tight. Secondly is that this product was sent to me for free, but they basically said, Jonathan, look, just do your thing. No money changed hands. They didn't say I had to do or say anything except do my own thing. Do the... Ellaskins YouTube madness. And here we go. Now, first and foremost, I have to explain these are predominantly used for, let's say, band purposes. So if you're in a band, let's say you're the guitarist, you're the keyboard player, you're the drummer and you want to hear the live mix. So to give you a little bit of an example, let's imagine you are a guitarist and you've turned up

You're playing in a barn and all you've got is a couple of speakers, you plug in, you're going to get a very echoey sound unless you haven't got a monitor facing directly towards you. But with the likes of the T9, if you've got a transmitter receiver hooked up to it, then you can have the live audio mix from your mixer, which means you've got the true sound and then you can increase the volume of your guitar, you can increase the volume of your mic, decrease, etc. So you get a proper audio mix using these in-ear headphones. You try saying that twice. So why haven't I done a video on these sooner? Well, I did a very quick video on Instagram a few weeks ago, but I wanted to sort of try them out on the Pioneer or now, well, yeah, the XDJ-AZ Alpha Theta, isn't it? And to be quite honest, I was very, very, not surprised, but...

1:57 Very quickly

I like them. Compared to the Overear, I find these are a lot more punchy and you don't have to turn them up as much. And I will explain why very quickly. Not right now, but anyway, let's see what we get. We get the quarter inch jack and the micro jack. So most controllers today will have the two inputs. So you've got a choice. You can put that in there or you can just stick to the micro jack. You've got a lot of these to plug into your ears, so different colours, different sizes. Now the actual speakers themselves are in here. Now this is very well made and in the box you get the cable and you've got to push the cable two little prongs into this part here and I had to really press in there so that there is absolutely no way of that pulling out.

Of course, you've got a small bit there that you hang over your ear. So that one, of course, will go on the right ear. That one, of course, will go on the left ear. So why do I like... Oh yeah, very quick clue as well. They do come with their own little pouch and you've got a small brush there for cleaning. You've got your usual guarantee, warranty, blah-dee-blah and destruction manual, also known as the instruction manual. And of course you've got other products from the same company. So why do I like them? Okay, so when you're using over ear, if you're not using cancelling headphones, then you're going to get a bit of the ambient sound from the speakers from the system. But when you've got these in your ears, you're only going to be able to hear what these will be playing. So if you are the sort of DJ who likes to split mix or likes to cue mix where you like to hear what you're bringing in as well as listening to the track that's playing, of course you do that just by turning one of the dials. Normally it's above the volume control where you can...

4:04 Loud audio, side, track

Turn the mix dial so I think I'm pretty sure sort of um at where I think it's seven o'clock it's off and then as you turn up to 12 you can start hearing both the track you're cueing in and of course the track that's coming in or the track that's playing sorry um so you can do that if you've got the two of them in alternatively what you could do of course you could just have one side in so you're monitoring on the one or the other side And listening to the audio through the speakers on the other side. But what I do like about them, and I think this is the important bit here, is a lot of DJs now, like me who've been in the industry for a very long time, put your hands up if you agree, are getting ear problems, a bit of tinnitus, and that's from the years of constant loud audio. Now with over...

Over ear headphones, got to say it quietly and slowly, you're going to still have a bit of audio bleed into your ears from the PA system but with these what they do is they're pretty much like a plug so as soon as you put that in your ear you're plugging the hole into your eardrum so technically nothing else can get in. I mean okay you will of course hear something but I'm not gonna Baffle you with science because I don't know the science, but I would say it would lower the DB that's entering your ear very, very dramatically. So in other words, if you have these in your ears all the time, you're not going to be susceptible to having that loud audio if you're in a club environment.

Right, I will put a link in the description. You're going to see me using these next weekend. I'm going to do a bit of a gig log. I've got a wedding locally, but there they are. They're the T9 in-ear monitors. There will be info in the description. Don't forget, leave a comment. Let me know what you think. Have you got them? Have you got anything else from XVIVE? What do you think? Do you like? Do you dislike? Just be honest because companies like your feedback. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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