Should DJs Ditch Headphones?

Is it time to hang up your over-ear headphones for good?

In this episode, Joe and Brian dive into the growing shift toward in-ear monitoring systems and how it’s changing the way DJs mix, monitor, and show up at events. Joe shares his full switch to custom-molded in-ears...a $1,000+ investment that’s paid off with better hearing protection, a cleaner look, and no more broken headbands or flaking ear cups.

Brian, on the other hand, explores a middle path using modular AIAIAI wireless headphones, offering flexibility, comfort, and impressively low latency without fully leaving traditional gear behind.

But this convo goes way beyond specs.

They get real about:

• Monitoring with one ear while staying tuned into the crowd
• Choosing gear that fits your brand image and client perception
• Managing comfort, sound quality, and setup stress during long events

You’ll also hear:

• A clever $10 powerstrip hack to clean up your booth
• A destination wedding gig in Prairie Home, Missouri (population 280)
• Father's Day recaps and the kind of off-the-cuff banter that makes this show feel like a green room hang

Whether you’re a seasoned pro thinking about upgrading your setup or just wondering how others manage their booth flow, this episode gives you real talk and practical insight from DJs who’ve been there.

If you're a true Booth Head (super fan of the pod), join our Patreon for all the extras and one-off goodies. You can get there by going to: patreon.com/BeyondTheDJBoothPodcast

Transcript

Speaker 1 1:43

what's up, everybody, welcome back. Welcome back to Beyond the DJ booth Booth booth Podcast.

Speaker 2 1:50

That was a little echo out you didn't like that Special effects.

Speaker 1 1:52

Yeah, I got to come over here one day and we got to record it.

Speaker 2 1:55

Yeah, there we go, there we go, let him add in the real echoes.

Speaker 1 1:59

We need a little segment thing too, like a gear talk.

Speaker 2 2:01

Yeah, we'll come, we'll make like one sunday I've been my stuff, I've been sweating him to make that.

Speaker 1 2:09

Yeah, anyway, welcome to the podcast. I'm joe bunn, that's my guy. Brian bonus cc, aka brian b, aka b boy that's it.

Speaker 2 2:15

I think you get them all.

Speaker 1 2:16

You had all the monikers aka dad, what's your, what's your daughter call you? I've never asked you that. Uh, she goes with the full daddy daddy, daddy, I like that.

Speaker 2 2:24

yeah, I love. Yeah, I love that I never called my dad daddy. Did you ever do that? I think is that a girl thing, no.

Speaker 1 2:29

I call my dad dad. And then, as we both got older, I would say pop, yeah, I call my dad. Pops, yeah, pops With an S.

Speaker 2 2:39

Yes, pops. Okay, father's Day. It's 5.45 am. It started early. I made you a card. I'm like, hey, you can give that to me about 9. I don't need that 5.45.

Speaker 1 2:49

Any breakfast, any breakfast in bed. I did get breakfast.

Speaker 2 2:51

No, I didn't get the breakfast Was it homemade. It was homemade. Tara hooked that up.

Speaker 1 2:55

Tara hooked it up. Yeah, I thought she might have gone to. I looked, you know you're at the park with her.

Father's Day Adventures

Speaker 2 3:13

That was it, yeah, well, we didn't go to the park, it was. It was so hot here it was nasty. I found this website oh boy raleigh for kidscom. Didn't even know it was a thing, I didn't either and we found an indoor okay, they had a father's day thing where they totally blew out the ad. It was like donuts for dad and these nice big donuts I show up. It's like a little bin of like these donut holes that they had just gotten that like published or something like that was kind of, but it was cool.

Speaker 2 3:37

It was like all these inflatables, but indoors I was like they gotta be printing money oh, gotta be because they have a camp for kids like that's a whole thing.

Speaker 1 3:44

I'm like these things are going to get-. So one of the pop-up is permanent. It's a permanent.

Speaker 2 3:47

Permanent, but these are the blow-up ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they had five rooms of these things, yeah, yeah, right. And there wasn't that many people there. We were like one of maybe six kids.

Speaker 1 4:01

Yeah, but that's a a deal. I know I'm father's day. We used to get this place called monkey joe's it was like that. It was like a franchise. It was expensive as shit.

Speaker 2 4:08

I just thought, because you're not dealing with the elements, with those things, that's where they really get ruined.

Speaker 1 4:12

Yeah outdoors rain, all of that yeah this is indoors.

Speaker 2 4:16

I'm like the overhead of this can't be crazy. Did you have to sign a waiver?

Speaker 1 4:19

oh, of course that's where they say yeah, then we went to that restaurant.

Speaker 2 4:23

Fail, yeah what was it?

Speaker 1 4:24

What was it called? Again, Do you want to say I think it's called yeah, I don't mind putting it on blast. It was like Cali Columbia or something like that. It was Colombian food. It's right by your house.

Speaker 2 4:32

Yeah, Always packed. We went at four o'clock yesterday I was like there's going to be no line.

Speaker 1 4:40

Yeah, four o dinner no I'm like I don't understand.

Speaker 2 4:43

It wasn't good and it was not good, wow, and you had to pretty much be latin to to go there, right? Which I thought another plus, because no one can speak english here agreed, so it's gotta be. To me that is a plus like no, but then the night before we were going out to look for something, we went to a street taco place.

Speaker 1 5:01

Okay, super solid not a, not a um, not a food truck. No, this is a establishment.

Speaker 2 5:06

It's like right near our house, five minutes away. Um the guys from mexico city. That's a yeah bonus.

Speaker 1 5:11

Okay, super solid okay, you gotta go there, that they have. You know, I'm very gringo, though. Do they have corn tortillas only, or can you get flour? Good question the corns, bro. Nah, I'm, I'm, I don't do the corn, I don't get down, it wasn't corn I don't think.

Speaker 2 5:26

I think it was flour, so I'll get you that.

Speaker 1 5:28

But this part lays into my question. Okay, actually, perfectly, we didn't even plan this. This actually just happened to you, right? You were off saturday night. If I tell you you're not dj on saturday night and you can't work like you can't? No emails, right? No proposals, no no invoicing, no QuickBooks, none of your shit that you do, None of the shit we do. Like to run a business Right, ideal night.

Speaker 2 5:53

It would be going to a sporting activity of some sort to watch. Yeah, in fact, there wasn't hardly anything on TV Saturday night. There was no NHL or NBA. I think there was an NH.

Speaker 1 6:04

I mean, if it's not the Canes.

Speaker 2 6:06

I'm probably not paying attention, even though it's the Stanley Cup, so going to like a game.

Speaker 1 6:11

Yeah, I would do that.

Speaker 2 6:12

It used to be movies, but, man, I haven't gone to a movie in God knows how long.

Speaker 1 6:16

Dude, you know Saquon's a big movie guy and I love movies and I'm kind of the same. I haven't seen the new Mission Impossible. I've been wanting to see that, but then, man, the main problem I have lately with movies is three hours is crazy. Yeah, they get long and it's three, probably 20 with the ads. Yes.

Speaker 2 6:33

But I love that. I don't know that. I love that A short movie you can't like.

Speaker 1 6:36

Two hours was always industry standard for me, like I.

Speaker 2 6:39

just that's what it was when you were growing up, you grown up, you had two hours. That's a lie.

Speaker 1 6:43

The previews were no dude when. I was coming on. The Green Mile was like three hours long bro.

Speaker 2 6:48

Star Wars is like three hours long.

Speaker 1 6:51

Not OG Star Wars yes, they were.

Speaker 2 6:54

But they were like two and a half hours. Okay, dancing with Wolves, no, that was a five hour. That was a five hour, I don't know. Actually it was long, though it was long.

Speaker 1 7:02

Anyway, it was long, though it was long Anyway, I don't know man, I do love movies.

Speaker 2 7:06

So what's your go-to? I think mine man is, and also mine's a restaurant of some sort.

Speaker 1 7:11

That was going to be me, me and Ashley going somewhere. Either we love you know what I mean Like love, love, or you send me weekly something new that's opened. I probably get targeted by two or three Instagram reels a day. That is something new. Opening. Raleigh is absolutely exploded.

Speaker 2 7:29

It is yeah.

Speaker 1 7:30

Everywhere you look, man, they are building a building Right and in the bottom of those buildings are new restaurants, new retail, new restaurants, new retail.

Speaker 2 7:37

I mean.

Speaker 1 7:38

I could go to a new restaurant every single night, probably for the next 45 days, and maybe still not hit them all.

Speaker 2 7:44

Do you ever surprise Ashley with these things? Or do you just cause Tara? I don't know why it's in me. I just don't ever tell her where we're going.

Speaker 1 7:52

I'm like hey.

Speaker 2 7:53

I'm going so much. She's like, oh great, where are we going now? You know, try someplace and and and like with her. You know, I want to make sure it's a go-to before I recommend. Oh, before you bring in another couple, I think I usually would say here's the spot.

Perfect Night Off for DJs

Speaker 1 8:08

I'm going to try and make a res. What do you think about it? Or our friend Allison Conley is always out. She's super social, so I'll hit her up and go. Hey, have you been to this. There was this new kind of I don't know if it's Middle Eastern or Indian place. Yeah, it's over in that new innovation district in North Hills. It was super dope, right, and it wasn't like curry, because I don't really like curry. The chef was from Bangladesh but then had been living in America.

Speaker 2 8:34

Yeah.

Speaker 1 8:34

Worked in New York in some hot shit restaurant.

Speaker 2 8:36

Yeah, and then opened this place.

Speaker 1 8:38

I'm spacing on the name, but I would recommend that, like the vibe was cool yeah, he was cool. He was real young, yeah, he came out, made sure everything was good, like I'm going to find the name and send you there. Or I'll go with you. Yeah, Like you would like that place.

Speaker 2 8:49

What did you?

Speaker 1 8:50

get man. It was some kind of chicken dish. No, it was no, no, you've got to get that.

Speaker 2 8:55

It was some chicken dish.

Speaker 1 8:56

Yeah, it was, but it was I. You know, the vibe was right.

Speaker 2 9:03

everybody in there just like looked like they were, you know, dressed up yeah, well, most indiana restaurants are like that anyways, exactly almost too upscale, yeah like for what they're doing.

Speaker 1 9:14

This was definitely upscale and I'm sure it was expensive, but it was in the right building, the right part of town yeah, the right clientele, the right decor, the right food. The kid that owned it was cool like it had a lot going for it.

Speaker 2 9:26

All right, I'm gonna put you in that place, I can't remember well, I just got back from the midwest.

Speaker 1 9:31

I was in the midwest for some gigs going out there.

Speaker 2 9:33

So this mentor of mine. Actually, I don't have very many mentors, but this guy's been and been a mentor since I was jesse itzler no close, but uh no by the way, jesse itzler got married in boca grand to sarah Blakely in 2008. Okay.

Speaker 1 9:46

Like that Boca Grande is like you know it's not even a stoplight, and that's like my favorite place in the world.

Speaker 2 9:51

I'm actually doing a wedding there. Are you this year, anyway? Gaspaspin Inn.

Speaker 1 9:57

Gasparilla Inn.

Speaker 2 9:58

Yeah, you're playing there. I'm playing there. An after party, just an after party. They oh no.

Speaker 1 10:03

They got money if they're at the Astro.

Speaker 2 10:04

Yeah, I'm like let's go. So I got that coming up in October, let's do it. And then I'm doing an event in Raleigh the very next day, which I don't do hardly ever here. And it's also with Lauren Watson, oh, I love Lauren. Yeah, I don't know, it's not in Raleigh proper.

Speaker 1 10:23

Well wait, if we go, we can't fish. What if we go the day before? I'm doing a threefer. So no, I ain't going with you, but anyways, go ahead.

Speaker 2 10:30

I was in the Midwest. Yes, in Kansas. Okay, well.

Speaker 1 10:38

I actually went to.

Speaker 2 10:39

Missouri. First we went to St Louis Girls on vacation.

Speaker 1 10:41

Yeah, it's pretty awesome, I was 16.

Speaker 2 10:44

I went there when I was seven, okay, and took the girl. We went up there.

Speaker 1 10:49

They definitely renovated it, so it's like way more modernized. And I remember the carpet was nasty before, but now it's like nice, nice.

Speaker 2 10:55

Then we went to Kansas. Okay, had a wedding at a place called Prairie Home. Prairie Home, missouri. I thought you said this was like a festival or something. No, I was joking with you about it because I took a picture of it. Yeah, so we'll put it up there. Population 280. I'm like, is this a serious sign? Where am I going? And my point to you on the text was like, hey, if 11 people show up, this is just turned into a music festival for this time, right, right, because this is crazy.

Speaker 1 11:21

Hold on a second time out, time, out, time out. I think I was doing a gig or something. I just didn't read it right yeah, hold on where does this gig?

Speaker 2 11:29

even come from okay, so this is a mentor friend of mine.

Speaker 1 11:32

Okay, I did one of his daughter's wedding in switzerland right, okay, that's a lot different than prairie home, canada, missouri, missouri, sorry so prairie home.

Speaker 2 11:41

they actually my uh, my buddy sean sent me a playlist that the town put together. Oh oh yeah, you sent that to me, oh man.

Speaker 1 11:49

Brutal.

Speaker 2 11:49

But anyways, I go out there. I needed some gear. So, shout out, elite Sounds. Ryan Rainey, buddy of mine that I knew through. He actually been to the collective. Yeah, I know he hooked me up with gear, went out there pouring rain oh boy, another one of those. I'm like I can't escape the rain. This year it's just been happening, yeah, and they had about 280 people there, pretty close. Not all from the whole town, though. Right, I think it was like 250 actually what it ended up being, but what was it? A barn or pavilion, it was like a, they called it.

Speaker 2 12:18

The secret garden is the name of it and it was like just an open, like garden with stuff. They put out a tent, pretty but everybody, it was it was, and then they had people out there on the courtyard and you could hear the thunder. I'm like, oh, it's coming down. She's like can why you make an announcement to have everybody come under the tent? We're about to start. I didn't have to say anything, it started a storm. They all, just, like mad, rushed in and I'm like, man, that's the best announcement I could have ever made.

Speaker 1 12:41

Didn't need to say anything right run.

Road Trip to Prairie Home, Missouri

Speaker 2 12:43

But they did some really cool things. They met at a coffee shop that's where they, uh the the bride and groom met. So they did what they called the first pour and they had a little mini coffee station set up and they, like, made coffee together and like during the ceremony, this is like right after cocktail hour, before they did a grand entrance, they had everybody gather for this like first four which I thought was a really cool thing I mean they had like the uh, what is it like the espresso?

Speaker 2 13:08

machine yeah, but they had like the way it was decorated. I forgot what those kinds of bags are, but it's like those like grain kind of looking bags yeah, yeah, they have beans, yes.

Speaker 2 13:18

Or allegedly for the dick, yeah they were all decorated like in this one little section to kind of like pay tribute to that. I love that. That that's cool. It was an interesting town, like I mean like literally no signal in there whatsoever. I couldn't even send you that text. I probably tried to send it like seven times, it just wouldn't go through. So it's close to University of Missouri, which is about 30 minutes away, okay, and a place called Columbia Missouri. Okay, I ended up staying the night there because I was like there's nothing in Prairie Home I was like might as well sleep in the room.

Speaker 2 13:46

I need some internet of some sort.

Speaker 1 13:48

You know what I mean.

Speaker 2 13:50

So, anyways, good gig. Probably won't be going back, but I even texted a couple people who live in Missouri and they're like dude, we've never heard of this town before.

Speaker 1 13:56

Never heard of it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:57

But that kind of leads into my gear segment. Oh, interesting, brian B here interrupting yet another stellar podcast episode. But don't worry, this is a value ad, not just me rambling. Have you enjoyed the music finds I share on here? You know the ones that Joe pretends he discovered first. Well, if you didn't know, I've got a patreon where you can grab not only song lists but also exclusive edits of mine. Yep, custom tracks. That'll set you apart from every DJ still rinsing the same tired wedding set. Want fresh music suggestions every month? Go to patreoncom forward. Slash DJ Brian B official. Again, that's patreoncom forward. Slash DJ Brian B official. You'll be the DJ. Everyone's trying to figure out how you keep your sets so fire and planners will start nudging their couples your way. And if that's not a hard enough sell, I don't know what is all right. Back to the episode before Joe tries to convince us that sweet Caroline is actually a banger.

Speaker 2 15:00

So I love renting gear, you know, just to see what their rigs look like.

Speaker 1 15:03

Yeah.

Speaker 2 15:04

So he had I don't even remember what kind of booth. He had a booth, and so I was able to fit it all into my car, and in it was already pre-wired you didn't set up all your stuff no, this was because they don't have anything in prairie home. I mean, the closest thing was like three hours away, so I'm like I might as well get it in kansas city, drive it up. Oh, I see, I would be shocked if there's a dj who lives there.

Speaker 1 15:22

Maybe there is probably crushing the Prairie home market. I mean, how many weddings are you doing with 280?

In-Ear Monitors vs. Headphones Debate

Speaker 2 15:26

people. In fact, the funniest thing about it was my buddy is like who lives in Kansas. He was like dude, I've never heard of that. So he did a little Google search and how they describe the town. It's like it's a growing city. They're averaging like one person per year in the last like 60 years. I'm like talk about a marketing spin, right, but the gear fine.

Speaker 2 15:49

This was the power strip that was inside the booth, okay, and I just thought it was super cool because it's got multiple outlets, yeah, on the front sides and top yeah, with the usb inside usb regular and usbc and the switch is here so you don't have to worry about, because sometimes if it's on top, yeah it can get bumped if it's on the whatever so, and it's heavy duty in my opinion, I like this one yeah, you like that yeah I did so, of course I had to take a picture.

Speaker 2 16:14

Bought a few of them oh, and it's got the 90 degree plug for the wall, and I just like the fact that it's got a lot of different places to place the outlet so you're not stuck with one way only amazon obviously amazon. So what do you think it?

Speaker 1 16:28

is 15.99, no higher, damn 9.99 9.99 9.99 for one.

Speaker 2 16:35

It's great if you're looking for one that's flat like this, because sometimes you don't have the room to do the whole strip. That's right or whatever yeah so this I just feel like it was a a great thing I found in somebody's rig Solid purchase.

Speaker 1 16:47

Shout out Ryan Rainey you want to head into the question. Sure, let's get into it. Dj Fire, dj Fire. In fact, I think I was talking to that guy earlier today. He was having some problems with something and I just answered him. I think it's the same guy, maybe not Could be multiple DJ Fires.

Speaker 2 17:01

Could be Well. He the 116th one on the list, DJ underscore fire number 116.

Speaker 1 17:06

That's true.

Speaker 2 17:07

And it has the underscore, so you got to have that man. There's a lot of DJ fires out there.

Speaker 1 17:14

What are your thoughts about in-ear monitors versus over-the-ear headphones? You know, what I am actually very biased on this subject. You are. Because I think it's been at least three or four years since I got rid of headphones.

Speaker 2 17:28

Wow yeah, maybe longer. Do you even carry a backup, just in case? Oh, of course 100%.

Speaker 1 17:34

I still have my V-Motors. They are definitely in that bag right there and they are in the pocket for them in their case, with the removable quarter-inch to eighth-inch adapter in case I don't have one, or the other.

Speaker 2 17:46

It's only been like one incident.

Speaker 1 17:46

Yeah, you know, quarter inch to eighth inch adapter, in case I don't. I don't have one of the other. Yeah, we couldn't. I hit a button on the pack, the belt pack, and changed this Wireless. Yeah, I'm wireless. Any lag, Zero lag, no. But I mean these are expensive. They're expensive in-ear monitors. They are made by custom molders.

Speaker 1 18:03

I went to the ear doctor, got a custom mold made, sent them off, had these made man, this could be five, six, seven years ago now. I think I've always been on this Sennheiser in ear monitor pack I mean, it's what they're for.

Speaker 2 18:16

What was the catalyst?

Speaker 1 18:17

I'm looking, you move. I'm looking. I just don't like headphones. I think they're hot. I was going through a bunch. They would either break or the ear cups would start to do that thing where the paint starts to flake off and it gets on your ears or on your bald head or whatever in your hair, if you have hair. I just got tired of them, man. I didn't like them hanging around my neck. I don't like that thing where people do it and wear it forwards like a headband. I don't like the thing.

Speaker 2 18:41

So, since you've gone back and forth, pros, cons the pros are?

Speaker 1 18:46

it just looks clean. Clean and professional. Even with one of them dropped, like I can tuck it inside my jacket and you never see it right but I'm not wearing both of them. I need to be able to hear the crowd reaction. That's the if I had to say the con. That was the con is, if you wear both, you would technically have to run some sort of microphone into the audience.

Speaker 2 19:05

Right.

Speaker 1 19:05

Or set up on your booth, point it towards the crowd or point it towards somebody. Give them a request, Because when you lock them in your ears you can't hear much. Right, that's the negative. There is no lag.

Speaker 2 19:16

One's constantly in your ear.

Speaker 1 19:18

Correct, unless somebody comes up and really wants to like. You know, bride comes up, first thing I do is grab it and pull it down. Mother of the bride comes up, I'm taking it. You know, random fuck boy comes up and wants to request. You know, I can't hear you, mr Brightside. I'm just like, yeah, we just nod and smile, and then you know, and then I'll look at Saquon and I'll go and I'll go. What is he saying? He goes? I don't know. I don't either. We both smiled at him and sent him on his way and he, yeah, thumbs up, and I don't know. Man, I just think it looks better. I think you look better in pictures. I think it looks cooler. I think it looks like you're a rock star.

Speaker 1 19:57

Like you're, so it had nothing to do yeah because and the other thing was you know hearing-wise and the tinnitus and the ringing in my ears and I'm able to turn these down lower because it is right in your ear yeah. I mean, if I handed those headphones to somebody else a normal person, you know, when I used to wear the headphones and put them on their head, they'd be like Jesus man, what are you?

Speaker 2 20:16

doing yeah.

Speaker 1 20:18

It just was too loud, right.

Speaker 2 20:24

And you don't have to turn up any or so loud so post gig. Can you tell a difference that they've? I mean, it's probably been years now it's been years maybe the first couple times you could tell a noticeable difference between like was there less ringing in your?

Speaker 1 20:31

100 okay 100 and, to be honest, man, after doing this now for 40 years, my hearing is not knock on wood, destroyed. I go every year and get my hearing checked, the highest end of the. You know when they do the sound. I've lost that. I don't hear the high high end stuff anymore, but normal volume stuff and regular frequencies I hear just fine.

Speaker 2 20:56

So to give this guy some context, what should he budget for?

Speaker 1 20:59

with this, you're saying if you're going to do it, go high end. Oh, if you're going to do it, go high end. Oh, if you're going to do it, do it right Over $1,000. Okay.

Speaker 2 21:06

But it's a one-time purchase. Yes, have you had to replace anything on them?

Speaker 1 21:09

No, I've never replaced the ultimate ears. That's a lot. The cable the cable's special and it attaches to the in-e is kind of has a piece of wire in it so it kind of goes around your ear and that kind of gets a little bit janky after about a year, okay, and the cable is probably 60 bucks Got it. So you have a backup with you of those.

Speaker 1 21:30

I do have a backup of that Right and again I got my headphones if I had to go, but the molds have lasted. The molds are the exact same molds.

Speaker 2 21:43

In fact, old logo on one ear and then the play button on the other ear.

Speaker 1 21:45

Okay, I used to use them in the band. Yeah, back in the day and everybody and I think that was the original thing I just was like, oh, it's gonna look cool, like right makes you look like a star. But then I'm like, man, I'm definitely not playing. I mean, I can look at the knob on the mixer and tell you it's not as loud. Yeah, you know, on the q, on the q knob.

Final Thoughts and Sponsor Shoutout

Speaker 1 21:57

I don't know man, I I just I think if you went to them you would be like, oh yeah, this is, and again, just freeing yourself from the booth, right, like I've walked away before trying to. You know, oh, I need to go grab something out of my DJ bag. You know six steps that way before and had a set of headphones on and literally rip the cable in half or rip them off my neck, whereas this belt pack, like even if I go pee or something and I'm like, say Kwon, just like this is going to end cold, just slam, fade in. You know, bright side, or whatever I can literally be in the bathroom like hearing what's going on?

Speaker 2 22:26

Is it?

Speaker 1 22:26

Bluetooth or how is it connecting? No, it is. It's the same frequency as a mic frequency whatever, those are Wow, and there's no latency. No.

Speaker 2 22:33

That's insane Okay.

Speaker 1 22:35

There are wireless headphones out now, too, by a company called AI AIA. That's the one I was just going to talk about. That's what I use.

Speaker 2 22:41

Do you like those? Love them? Really Great. And I think the biggest selling point to me is the fact that every part can be put together of this headphone. Like you get the brain part right, the bend, and then you have each cup can go on them. I mean, every piece can be removed and you can buy each one if any of them fail. Oh, separately, did you buy those or they send them to you? No, I bought them.

Speaker 1 23:02

I bought them. I was trying to get a free set, but they weren't that. Maybe I'm not big.

Speaker 2 23:06

Well, I think they're out in europe too, by the way, so they're probably not big in the us, but they don't like that stupid ass. White boy from the south I actually had a friend of mine who said you should try them wirelessly. Yeah, and it is a bluetooth signal, and I was like I don't know if it's going to really work. Yeah, the latency is so little you can't even tell. Yeah, and for mixing, like even a little off is is a big deal.

Speaker 1 23:27

Sure.

Speaker 2 23:27

It's as if they're in there. Really the problem with them in wireless mode is that I noticed you can't turn them up too loud, which is probably a good thing.

Speaker 1 23:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:35

They start to kind of distort a bit in your ears with it, I can go louder with them I don't know why are you saying the wire to the, your controller, or the? Controller. Oh, right to the ear, right straight in, rather than the wireless right. But I use the bluetooth in them, correct? When I'm just on a plane, oh anywhere, I could just have those things on because the battery life is insane right they are, yeah, they're like two or three hundred bucks yeah, somewhere in that range.

Speaker 2 23:59

I have not gone in here just because to me the in-ear for you the.

Speaker 1 24:03

The key metric is don't mess your hair up like that's premium hair. Yeah, the band over the head, yeah. And the next thing you know, you got that dent. Yeah, in the middle of the guav. Yeah, that's not, that's not fresh that's not fresh. It is not fresh because I mean I just think I don't know, it doesn't matter, I'm so.

Speaker 2 24:19

The funny thing is it is a look right like I'm like I could tell the guy's a DJ. Not saying that you don't look like a DJ. I saw it, came up and saw it in your ear. I'm like okay guys.

Speaker 1 24:27

You just spent a thousand dollars. I can tell he's not like, or more yeah. But if I didn't see that, you know I'd be like is wear it this way over it.

Speaker 2 24:47

I'm always like half on back of the neck. What about the forehead style? Isn't that a drew piercey special?

Speaker 1 24:50

uh, never, never, it was never was the king of the forehead I can't do it.

Speaker 2 24:53

I don't have that kind of forehead. I don't have a premium forehead.

Speaker 1 24:56

I can't pull that I feel like I do, but I've never gone forehead style, but I'm trying to think of what I did. No, I was definitely over the top.

Speaker 2 25:02

I'm always one on, one off, exactly right and now what I've done is it's not related to this question, but I always have a monitor unless I have 50 people or less. Wow, a monitor is a guarantee and that has allowed me to keep the volume kind of a little bit in check, because I would overcompensate. Yeah, on the main, on the main.

Speaker 1 25:20

So I could hear yeah, right, I was doing that recently. And I looked at the second one. I'm like damn, I've even gone too far for myself, right so the monitor has helped me kind of like keep would you say e-verse or something, and then I don't have to an e-verse, or I've even used a 30 and uh you've all 30. No, I mean um. I mean, is the e-verse down by your foot?

Speaker 2 25:38

yes, no on the on have used an Evers 30. Yeah, the 30's good and they match with whatever it blocks it, because it's literally right next to the main, usually is where I put it and I just crank it up and it's great. I don't have it on the entire time.

Speaker 1 25:57

Just when I'm doing mixed points, you have to show the booth out. Yeah, booth out. It's a good. It's a good gift for you. When we hit a season, what?

Speaker 2 26:04

15? 15. There you go, sounds good.

Speaker 1 26:08

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