DJ Mixer Setup: Cueing Records

Video Transcript

"Alright, now I'm going to talk to you about headphones and queuing. Now you want to queue your records not out in the open because then the crowd will hear it, and it's not the way you want to do it. It's not the way any DJ does it. You're going to use either headphones or a monitor. I'd say at least ninety percent of DJs use headphones. Lots of DJs have used monitors if your club happens to have monitors for you. I know Larry Levan who the classic DJ from Paradise Garage, he only used a monitor. He didn't use headphones. But pretty much everybody uses headphones. So you're going to take your headphone. This particular one goes through a quarter inch and this particular input is a quarter inch input. I've found that most inputs on mixers are a quarter inch. You plug it in. A lot of headphones go out to an eighth of an inch not a quarter inch. And so if you find that you're going to need to get an adapter that's that moves from eighth of an inch to quarter inch. So on next time I'm going to be talking to you about how you're queuing and your levels."