Monitoring With Headphones - Hercules DJ CONTROL MP3 E2 User Manual

5.3. Monitoring with headphones

To prepare his musical line-up, a DJ uses headphone monitoring: he listens to a track on his
headphones while the other one is being played over the speakers, allowing him to adjust the
tempo so that the tracks flow seamlessly together. He can also add audio effects, set cue points
(markers) to start up at a specific point in a track, create rhythmic loops, adjust Treble, Medium
and Bass frequencies, and so on. Your DJ Control MP3 e2 allows you to carry out this kind of
headphone monitoring, depending on the hardware and software you have at your disposal.
If you only have a stereo sound card, you cannot carry out headphone monitoring.
Please note that both Mac desktop and laptop computers, as well as most PC laptops, feature
1 stereo output ONLY; so if you have such a computer and want to use the headphone
monitoring feature, you must have an external multi-channel sound card.
If you have a sound card with an output of 4 or more channels (such as the Hercules Muse
Pocket LT sound card, or a similar sound card and), however, you can monitor music on
outputs 3 and 4 over your headphones.
In order to use the headphone monitoring mode on your multi-channel sound card:
a) Verify that the speaker configuration is set to either 4 or 5.1 channels. This should
ideally be done using your sound card's configuration program.
Your operating system also offers certain configuration possibilities:
PC: Start > Control Panel
- Sound and audio devices (Windows XP)
- Sound (Windows Vista / 7)
Mac: Application > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup
b) Make the necessary connections to your sound card as follows:
- Connect your speakers to the FRONT connector (usually green).
- Connect your headphones to the BACK/REAR connector (usually black).
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