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Jun 12, 03
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what ear works better for beat matching?
Meny dj's who spin useualy have a specific ear they rather use to beat match with their head phones. If your right handed does that mean you use your right ear?
Naturaly I seem to use my right ear... but I dont always notice a huge difrence or improvment if I try the left one? Uneless one ear is having a better day then the other :P Is there any science to this or mater if your left or right handed? Or is it all prefrence? So what ear do you use? 
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Jun 12, 03
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all that matters to me is which side my monitor's on. the headphones have to be on the side opposite the monitor or i'm fucked.
usually though i have my headphones on my right ear and monitor on the left, that's just how my room is set up though. odds are you do better just out of pure habit and comfort with how you prefer your setup.
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Jun 12, 03
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the left ear is always better for jungle and hardcore, or anything above 150 bpm. allways use the right ear for spinning house, breaks, or anything in the 80-150 range.
genetically the 2 ears are best suited for different styles and you will never realize your full potential if you use the wrong ear.
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Jun 12, 03
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^ i have alot of trouble trying to believe that.
it's like saying left handed hockey players will never be as good as right handed ones. i can beleive that one ear is better for higher bpm music, but saying that the left ear is meant for one type of music regardless of who i sjust wrong
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Jun 12, 03
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is that really true? that the left ear is better for higher bpms? where did you guys learn that?
john 2899131
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Jun 13, 03
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Funny enough for parties that I have to split up my moniters (one in one room, and one in the other) I find if there's a choice the faster room people have the monitor on the left, and the other room moniter on the right. Hip Hop set up's favor the left also.
Personly I need both ears at once, the one sided shit fucks me up.
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Jun 15, 03
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In addition to some really good points here, when practicing, regardless of what ear does what better, you should practice queing with BOTH ears... Why? Because when you show up to play at a party, club or venue, you never know what that setup is going to be. I have played, along with everyone else in this thread I'm sure, on systems with the monitor on the right, the left, no monitor, blown monitor, etc... Having said that, it's better to be prepared for the worst!
Cheers.
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Jun 15, 03
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i just type the numbers into the computer and hit the spacebar.
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Jun 15, 03
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*LMAO*
i *heart* you oliver!  anywho i think that its whatever you get used to.
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Jun 15, 03
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i *heart* you too rave dj eris!!!
and exactly, as kraig said, be able to play with the monitor on either side is important. i find the only wierd thing about switching sides from how you have it at home is that the deafness level is usually different from one ear to the other. and you realize this when you switch it up. but it really makes no difference what side. Last edited by oliver; Jun 16, 03 at 01:01 AM.
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Jun 15, 03
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i tend to favor monitering with the left ear, but it depends what im wearing...
if im wearing a hoodie then i use the right for some reason... when its just a shirt or some sort of leather bondage gear, then the left and i dont care about moniter side tho, it just makes the difference of how loud my head phones are
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Jun 16, 03
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It's important to learn to mix with only your headphones too.
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Jun 19, 03
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^ haha to be honest when first playing out I never took in consideration of what the moneters where ment for or bothered with them. Personaly i thought it didnt balance out the sound so great... a 3rd speaker facing me? Made sence, but then it didnt.
Anyways thought it was up to the dj's talent to reconize the sound/beats from what the crowed got. Therefor I practiced with my home system facing away form me... haha, well helps if the moneter ever blows up :c-tard: But now i understand the sole need of a monetor... god dam lazy dj's! Last edited by Ree Fresh; Jun 19, 03 at 12:59 AM.
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Jun 19, 03
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what all this talk of monitors and deafness really points out is how ass backwards it is to even still use monitors.
hey here's a great idea: i plan on doing this for a damn long time, so why don't i do every show with a powered monitor pointed straight at my head from three feet away... oh yeah, then i can stick a loud full-enclosure headphone on the other side. everything will be just dandy. i've been looking into earplugs and/or in-ear monitors lately. does anyone else use them? personally i think it'd be rad to have a headphone on one ear and an earbud on the other... almost all noise blocked out, super low volume on the monitor and your headphones, nice clean sound from all of it. alternatively, you could use hardcore earplugs (like Sound Advice) with a regular setup so you're still getting an accurate reflection of what the crowd hears but without the i'm-45-minutes-into-a-set-and-all-i-can-hear-is-white-noise effect. i want something, or anything to protect my ears. deafness is not an option.
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Jun 19, 03
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I think I'm a little deafer in my left ear, which is why I prefer my left. At the end of the night I'm not hurting as much =P
It really depends on the position of the monitor(s) and how fucking loud they are. When monitors are REALLY loud and I can't adjust the volume, instead of opting to put my headphone on the opposite ear at equally loud volume, I'll put it on the same side at lower volume, and have the beats overlapping in one ear that way. This of course is fully dependent on the monitors ability to drown out my headphones. DJ'ing is seriously making me go deaf though, when I was in Montreal my girlfriend's ears were ringing for 3 days after a show we went to, mine weren't and I didn't find the sound loud at all during the show, hahaha.
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Jun 19, 03
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i've looked at in-ear personal monitoring systems since i'm worried about hearing loss as well...unfortunately they are pretty expensive and run like 400 bucks for the most basic one. Although headphones are getting up around that range so it might be a worth the expenditure.
I've used a pair of shure's personal monitoring ear buds (usually used for bands and live acts) and i was very impressed. Killed practically all external noise and I could mix in the ear buds at a nice comfortable volume. i was thinking of picking up a new set of headphones...but now i think i might save my money and get these instead...hmm...
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Jun 19, 03
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My buddy julian has a pair of headphones, can't remember who makes them but it's some German company I think (very german sounding name anyways), but when you put them on it's like putting on a pair of ear plugs, it cuts out a HUGE amount of noise. It'd be worth investing in a pair of headphones like that, as you could hear the beats way better and at a far better volume.
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