Hello guys, I've just ordered a DJM-400 along with pair of Behringer B215A powered speakers, and I was wondering how will I go about on hooking up a powered subwoofer since DJM-400 has only 2 output slots.. Do I need to hook up the powered sub directed into the speakers instead? Any help would be appreciated!

The DJM400 has more than just one master output! You may be able to daisy-chain the speaker from the monitors...

I apologize for being a total newbie, but what is a monitor? could you recommend me one that'll work well with this setup?

I think Pulse was typing while looking at something else.

What he MEANT to say (probably) was that you'll likely be able to daisy-chain the speakers from the sub.

Monitors are another way to say speakers, but only when you're talking about speakers that are for you to hear what the crowd does; for example, if you were in a club and the DJ booth had a speaker just so the DJ could hear the music like the crowd does, that's called a DJ monitor. If you're in a studio and you have a set of speakers that are for you to hear the music that the crowd will eventually hear after you mix it down, those are monitors. If you were a singer on stage and you had your own set of speakers in front of you so you could hear the rest of the band as the crowd hears it, those are monitors. They're there so you can "monitor" the audio

The DJM-400 does have multiple outs, however, and if you needed to you could use one set of outputs to go to the sub, and one set of outputs to go to your monitors (your Behringers). The advantage of running it "daisy-chained" through the sub, however, is that most likely the sub includes a built-in crossover, so that the monitors don't have to worry about playing the same frequencies that the sub is playing; it removes them from the audio path at the output of the sub so your monitors only play everything that the sub isn't (the mids and highs of the audio), and the sub plays everything your monitors aren't (the bass).

Get it?

-r-

Duh, yes... speakers from sub. Some speakers/subs have parallel connections for doing just that.

Wow thank you so much for clearing that up, I've learned a lot from it. But I was wondering if I could daisy chain the sub through the monitor instead of running the monitor through the sub. Does it matter which way I daisy chain them? I'm thinking that I should use right and left output on DJM-400 to my pair of speakers, and use the right and left output on the speakers to the powered sub. What do you think?

Some subs have a built-in crossover (which automatically filters out the low frequencies as produced by the sub) so the output for the monitors don't receive the unnecessary signal. The parallel output on some monitors would be full-range; no filtering whatsoever. If they both have outputs, it wouldn't really matter what order you put them in.

Thanks again for your wisdom Pulse. I'm thinking about getting a Tapco SW-10 which I think includes built in crossover like you said. So all I would have to do is connect this powered sub to the DJM-400, and use the outputs on the sub to a pair of Behringer B215A right?

Yes, the sub should have L/R outputs to the tops (speakers) and if a built in crossover (most to all powered subs have this) is there then it will adjust the signal. Just verify this in the Taps manual and your good to go...