hello my fellow KPA'ers. i'm hoping that you can help me out. i've been subbing regularly with a band that uses IEM's as their primary way of monitoring. i got my KPA about a month ago and purchased some of the m. britt profile packs (which are amazing). i've spent the last 2 weeks tweaking about 10 patches that sound phenomenal through the headphone jack using headphones. last night i took the KPA out on it's maiden voyage with this band and the results were less than spectacular. first off, part of the problem is that i had my volume pedal placed pre-stomps, which meant that my higher gain patches were almost clean. i've since moved the volume pedal to the pre-effects position where i vastly prefer it.
my main problem was that all of my patches that sounded great through the headphone jack were very thin sounding through my IEM's. the gain patches (after i fixed the placement of the volume pedal) were very harsh and gritty sounding- almost like the cabinet was bypassed. i checked to make sure that the KPA was configured correctly. i was coming out of the left "main" output via XLR and had the KPA set to "main mono". the cabinet light was definitely lit and i made sure to tell the soundman to set the EQ flat in my IEM's.
i don't have an FRFR speaker or access to a PA system but i'm not sure that i would need to tweak the KPA with either since this band only uses IEM's as monitors. is there something that i'm missing or have overlooked? i can't believe that the tone would be THAT much different coming out of the headphone jack than it would coming out of the main output.