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Topic: Headphone Use With Virtual DJ, DJ i/o and an external mixer

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Alright team. I need some assisatance in setting up my hardware so that it works to my satisfaction. I have a laptop with all my .mp3's on it. My other hardware includes the Numark Total Control, DJ I/O, a PV14 external mixer, amp and speakers. I currently have the Total Control and the DJ I/O connected to my laptop (no issue). I have output one from the DJ I/O going to one channel on my mixer and output two going to another channel on the mixer with my headphones plugged in to the headphone jack of the DJ I/O. My sound card configuration is set at input: nothing; output: external mixer; sound card: numark usb. Now, when I play music through the DJ I/O I can hear music from deck two of virtual dj, I can hear music from deck one through the headphones. Here's the problem - when I play deck two, I can still only hear music from deck 1. Even when I hit the pfl button for deck two, nothing happens. No music or anything. I played with this thing for 4 hours and finally was able to hear some sound through the headphones, only after disabling the cross fader.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
 
Posted Thu 21 May 09 @ 11:36 am
Does your mixer have a headphone jack for cueing? If so, use that, not the DJ/IO
 
jdiggaz wrote :
Alright team. I need some assisatance in setting up my hardware so that it works to my satisfaction. I have a laptop with all my .mp3's on it. My other hardware includes the Numark Total Control, DJ I/O, a PV14 external mixer, amp and speakers. I currently have the Total Control and the DJ I/O connected to my laptop (no issue). I have output one from the DJ I/O going to one channel on my mixer and output two going to another channel on the mixer with my headphones plugged in to the headphone jack of the DJ I/O. My sound card configuration is set at input: nothing; output: external mixer; sound card: numark usb. Now, when I play music through the DJ I/O I can hear music from deck two of virtual dj, I can hear music from deck one through the headphones. Here's the problem - when I play deck two, I can still only hear music from deck 1. Even when I hit the pfl button for deck two, nothing happens. No music or anything. I played with this thing for 4 hours and finally was able to hear some sound through the headphones, only after disabling the cross fader.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


You need to decide how you want this set up, either internal mixer or external mixer.



To set it up for internal mixer, click config/sound and in the top box select none, second select phones and speaker if you have a multi channel card, and in the third box select 4.1 sound.
Below that find and select the sound card you want to use and assign the channels 1/2 as main/front/speakers and 3/4 rear/monitor/ phone

If you have a single channel stereo sound card such as the internal card on the laptop do the same only select speaker in box 2 and simple in box 3.
Then just patch the output to the mixer as a single output only.




To set it up for external mixer, click config/sound and in the top box select none, second select external mixer and you must have a multi channel card, and in the third box select 4.1 sound.
Below that find and select the sound card you want to use and assign the channels 1/2 to one mixer channel and 3/4 to the second mixer channel.
Head phone monitoring is done directly at the mixer with PFL or CUE select buttons.
 


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