Kemper Amps Forum

Hi!

Sorry to hear that you have problems with the profiles. I've just checked them all and with headphones all is normal. When using monitor out to a small combo (the only one I can use at home) everything goes fine, but when I hit "Disable cabinet", the it comes the digital electric fizz but I don't know if it's the same you're listening to, because that way it sounds totally awfull

If your Output LED turns red, the "digital fizz" is clipping and can be fixed by turning down the master volume or - for individual overloud profiles - the volume knob.

Odd, do you have "Monitor Cab Off" checked under the second page of the Master (output) settings? I'm pretty sure that's not stored per rig though so it shouldn't affect things. Are you going through an audio interface? There's a slight possibility of an impedence mismatch there or that the interfaces internal gain is just a tiny bit too high so that it starts to clip if a profile is just a tiny bit louder than the others (it should be going in to an instrument/hi-z input).

Quoted from "DogdaySunrise"

If your Output LED turns red, the "digital fizz" is clipping and can be fixed by turning down the master volume or - for individual overloud profiles - the volume knob.

Thanks for the heads up. I don't have this particular profile, but have experienced it with a few others. I thought it was my monitors at first, but playing prerecorded tracks through them were fine.

The problem for me is I'm colorblind where red/green is concerned. I don't know when I'm clipping because the red LED looks pretty much the same as the green to me. (Cue sad violin music...)

Maybe at some future date Chris Kemper can have an option of changing the default LED colors. In the meantime, I'll tweak the Master and profile volumes and see if that fixes it. In another thread along these lines, Guitarnet70 suggests checking the volume setting in some effects and the cabs, too.

Would the Clean Sense/Distortion Sense have anything to do with this as well?

7% of Fully Grown Male Individuals are colorblind, by the way.

CK may get pissed at me for saying this again but it sounds like you have flash memory corruption. My fix was to perform a flash format followed by restoring from backup. There are instructions in the problem forum. This did fix my high end odd-sounding issues as well as others.

Hello. My KPA problem is fizz, but only trough the headphones. Appears on every rig with distorted sounds. The fizz i audible on "all" frequencies, and it increases when gain is turned up. I usually play trough a guitar poweramp/cab with excellent result,never tried with a FRFR. I have not found any global setting for just the headphone, is there one or is there an other way of getting the superb KPA headphone sound described on the forum? I'm looking for a global fix, not interested in changing every rig just so that I can listen occasionally via the headphones. Best regards/Hans J Umeå, Sweden

Try connecting the headphones (BTW: which model?) to your computer or stereo system and check if, at similar volume, the fizz is still there...from your description it could be that the drivers are busted...

Headphones out get the same signal as main outs, so you can adjust eq from there

Thanks for the reply. Headphone is working/sounding nice connected to other gear. Sorry to say, I can't adjust headphone sound with my main out eq. Tried to turn all the knobs, none of the respond. Tried to check in the boxes "Main out link, Monitor out link, Headphone link and monitor cab off" None of then makes any difference to the headphone tone(knobs are working fine in other settings). Now I'm starting to get worried. I have already made one reboot, since then I've made hundreds of adjustments and I am quit happy with the monitor out sound that I'm using. Don't know if I've got the strength to do it all over again I'm running the headphone output at -20db, main vol. -18, monitor vol. at -25. /Hans J