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DJ headphones

As a DJ, one of the most important skills that you can have is matching beats.  There's nothing quite so bad as a DJ who thinks that they know how to match beats but really doesn't, leaving their audience in an agonized huddle of people being subjected to clashing cacophonous rhythms.  On the other hand, a DJ who really does know how to mix beats will become a sure hit with any audience.  If you don't have a perfect sense of rhythm, don't worry.  There are ways to make sure that you are doing the beats correctly, and one of them is DJ headphones.

Discretion is the better part of valor, they say.  Along that same line, it's far better to make your crowd wait a bit for your beat to get thrown in than to risk throwing in a beat that's going to make an angry crowd.  Listening to the beat mix, after getting your starting timing right, is mandatory (and your DJ headphones can also help you get that starting timing right).  Listen and learn, evaluate and experiment, and then unleash it on your audience.

But what do you need for DJ headphones, and why are they DJ headphones instead of just plain old headphones?  Well, aside from the higher quality (with things like locking cords so they won't pull out, reinforced joints so they won't break) a few features were created with the DJ in mind.  One is the way they fold, allowing for easy switch to one ear listening.  Swivel units and the sort of padding that you get on these DJ headphones will also make them more comfortable for the DJ's work (in other words, they were ergonomically designed with you in mind).  Perhaps most important is the sound blocking features.  It's almost impossible to get a beat going if you're getting distracted by other things, so these headsets are going to allow you to monitor without outside interference, and will give you an incredibly high quality sound – so you can verify that your crowd gets the same.