Hi group:
I've been struggling with a "this doesn't sound nearly as good as it used to" problem with multiple items for a while. I have Yamaha DXR10 monitors, I thought they would be excellent and were recommended here. After trying multiple other things, I changed the Yamaha's for Kustom mini pa columns. The XLR output was astoundingly loud. I had to turn the master volumes and the channel volumes down to approximately 1 or 1/2 if they had numbers.
I used to have a BBE in line but not at the moment - I took it out as I was A/B testing to see if that was the culprit. Doesn't seem to be. I've done the soft reset / cleared all settings, no joy. Reset clean sense and distortion sense to zero. Didn't expect that to matter, but tried anyway.
The -12 dB control is set. The master volume was at least -36 dB, near fully off. Basically need to have Kemper master volume just a tiny bit above "off". That can't be right.
I don't remember needing to crank the powered speakers so low in the past. Is this a clue? Before I'd use the center detent in the master volume and adjust outputs in the rack. Is this just a phenomenon of using the XLR outs? I've tried 1/4" cables to the Yamahas but not the Kustoms yet.
Using the back panel input if that matters. Have a bypassed Line6 HX FX in front in mono but that didn't make a difference when I wired around it.
Was going to do a full factory reset but I'm running the latest beta software. I suppose I'll need to wait for the next official release to try the mind wipe.
Any other items I should check? Is there a safe and easy factory reset while on beta software I don't know about? (I got the impression from another thread here that you can't just use the top left button on power-up if running beta.)
I'm strongly suspecting there's something corrupt in the firmware or else there's user error. Seriously could be user error.
Any suggestions?
Best,
Ron