CDJ800 mk1 issues with stereo imaging. Mono?!

I recently did a remix of an unreleased jungle track I really like as I was lucky enough to find all the samples, have a listen here.

https://soundcloud.com/charlycharlysays/da-maytrix-winter-revival-charly-says-rmx

I got a mate in bristol to master it for me as mastering is really not my thing. I like all the sampling and programming but trying to get it to sound "good" just ruins the fun for me. Should probably go on a course or something.

Anyway.... I tried to record a mix yesterday using my CDJ800 mk1s.

When I play it on my CDJs certain samples in the track are definitely out of phase. Namely the piano and some of the vocals. They sound thin and weak and dull.

If I plug my old phillips Hifi CD player into the same mixer with the same RCA cable, it sounds fine... like the soundcloud stream.

Additionally, if I unplug either the left or the right RCA from the CDJ800, the mix suddenly sounds normal (albeit at less volume!).

Both CDJs are doing this too.

On all other playback devices which I've used- car CD player, Mp3 player, hifi etc it plays fine.

Here's the interesting thing-
I loaded this tune into cubase and tried to merge it into a mono track, and was able to exactly recreate the issue I'm hearing with the CDJs.

So I can only assume that 1. the engineer has used some clever stereo imaging on certain stems in my tune and 2. The CDJ800 mk1s are merging stereo tracks to mono by default for some weird reason- both of them.

Is this a fault?! It's definitely really frustrating as I was looking forward to DJing with this track!!

Any thoughts much appreciated, feel like I'm going mad lol.


Edited by charlysays - 10 September 2017 at 11:45am

Does it also sound as bad when you cue that channel and listen in headphones?

freddymendez wrote: Does it also sound as bad when you cue that channel and listen in headphones?

Yes it does