Headphone EQ

    Hey everyone. I played a while tonight just listening through headphones and I found the sound very harsh with my standard settings that I use through my Adam A8X. That makes perfect sense and is no biggie. So I went to both the master and monitor EQ and tried to drop the presence and treble. The changes to neither of the EQs changed the sound in the headphones.


    I then played with the profile EQ and then the sound changed in the headphones. Is that the correct behavior for the EQs? I thought through the headphones I would be getting the same signal as what the master output was getting? If something's wrong then I guess I'll try a reset. But before I do that can you tell me how your headphone output works?


    Thanks in advance for any the help.

    master eq doesn't work with KPA headphone input. I don't like using phones connected to the KPA because of the harshness you refer to. Phones sound OK though when I plug them into my soundcard.

    Vintage amp obsessive

    Edited once, last by professortweed ().

    I wonder why they chose that behavior for the headphone out. Would like the signal to be the same as the master output.

    I just hooked up a headphone amp to the monitor out and even without any eq it's infinitely more usable than the headphone out.

    Suddenly tonight all my outputs were much lower. I didn't change a thing. I tried the headphone out again and low and behold it sounded perfect. I love the KPA but thank god I don't gig anymore. This instability is just odd and would be disconcerting if I gigged. Now all I have to do is push the rig volume a little up and dime the headphone out and it's perfect, it's bliss. I really hope the KPA folks get in front of these issues before it gets a bad reputation because they have something special here but the half-baked implementation might be hard to outgrow.


    Edit: I rebooted a number of times and the output volumes stuck. I wonder if the output volumes were dropped in 1.08 final. Although the output for the headphones have dropped a ton and I need to max the headphone volume, increase the rig volume and increase the cabinet volume to get a satisfactory level. This is still better than how it was before. Jeez.

    Edited once, last by hoth ().

    We have no further report of volume dropped. So we are not working on any issue.
    It is quite unlikely that the volume drops by sudden, and stays there even after a reset.

    Quote from ckemper

    We have no further report of volume dropped. So we are not working on any issue.
    It is quite unlikely that the volume drops by sudden, and stays there even after a reset.

    I havent noticed it either...things looking up :) just need an itunes styled editor for the kemper now!! ;)

    Quote from ckemper

    We have no further report of volume dropped. So we are not working on any issue.
    It is quite unlikely that the volume drops by sudden, and stays there even after a reset.


    Thanks CK. I am afraid to do a reset now because the headphone output now sounds great. If I reset again or if it reverts to the previous extremely hot output, I will try to troubleshoot to see what exactly happened. Thanks.

    So to provide an update: to use headphones I run the monitor out into a little Mackie mixer I bought. The KPA sounds great through it and everything now has been very stable for me for a while. I think it sounds even better through headphones than through my Adam A8x. And haven't had a volume drop since the last reset I did over a week ago. The tone is fantastic for me generally so :thumbup:.