connecting monitors to mixer

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Hi, so I have the xenyx x1222usb and the m-audio av 40's and at the moment I have an rca cable running from the two rca slots on the monitor to the headphones output. This works fine with no problems, apart from I am only ever using this buy myself.
There will be a time when someone else will be recording and will be listening through headphones, and me through the monitors - so how do I work this? There are the 2 main outs on L and R on the mixer which I think if I got 2 xlr to jack cables then I could run them into the two jack sockets on the monitor, or can I do something with the aux returns?
 
If the mixer does not have a separate monitor out jack, then by all means use the main outs to your monitor speakers.
 
How come most people dont just use some expensive headphones for monitoring? MOst everyone nowadays listens to music on their iPods. ..Why not tailor your sound to the way most people will be listening to it?
 
you're a newbie on here, I dont know if you are in real life, but monitoring is different from mixing. people do get expensive headphones for monitoring but thats different to mixing. Monitoring is just when you are tracking, but mixing is when you balance everything out, putting it simply. Monitors are good for this because they are a lot clearer than all the sound going round your ears in headphones. then people will go play it on different systems or devices, like bass challenged cheap computer speakers, you hear things so much differently due to many variables, you'd be surprised. People then change their mix to suit everything at the same time, that way they aren't tailoring the sound to most people, but to everybody.
 
And the sound from headphones (no matter the price) is nothing like those from earbuds!
 
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