I'm back and a question

Hi all

Been a couple of years but I'm finally an owner of a powerhead and remote again. Excited to be back!

Excuse what may be a stupid question but...

I loaded in my profiles that I made and sell and also some others that I've bought in the past. I first ran them through my Marshall 1936 212 cab (yes, I turned cabs off on the profiles =) ), but I get what sounds like a weird hifi type of cover on everything. It's hard to explain. I don't remember anything sounding like this in the past. I tried different cables, etc but that didn't change anything.

I then tried it through my Yamaha HS8 studio monitors and my M Audio monitors....same thing. Really strange artifact sound almost blanketing the tone. I haven't had a chance to record with it yet or try my 412 cab but I figured I'd post here to see if maybe there's something new that wasn't in the kemper from a few years ago when I owned it as far as options go that I'm not aware of? Again, I had cabs off when going through the cab and cabs on when going direct. I tried the pure cab on and off but while it doe change things, it still has this weird thing going on. Any help is appreciated.

Quote from Ingolf

Hey Rich, good to see you back!

I don't have an explanation for this, as profiles are ALWAYS backwards compatible.

Do the stock profiles in the machine sound weird as well?

Hey man!

Yes they all sound weird. Like ice picks. Even the free Michael Britt ones that are normally darker than everyone else’s. I tried the reboots too.

Quote from Zappledan

Welcome back!

Things I would check:

1. Is something locked that's affecting your sound? You can push and hold the LOCK button, and any locked functions will be lit.

2. Check your Output settings to make sure that you're going out Master (either stereo or mono).

Nothing is locked and I’m definitely going out the correct outputs. Just tried headphones and while not great, it’s better.

Quote from paults

What is the Pure Cab setting (in the Output Menu)? If you are using a guitar cabinet, you may want Pure Cab to be turned off.

I’ll check that but does that matter if the actual profiled cab is already turned off?

Quote from paults

Turning the cab off in the Rig would make it sound extremely bright in studio monitors.

Instead of turning the cabinets off in the Profiles, try doing it in the Output Menu - for the Monitor/Poweramp output.

Yes. With studio monitors I have the cabs on. With my actual cabs, I have it off but still same issue on both. Maybe I don’t remember everything being this bright and stiff?

Quote from Zappledan

You might also do an Init Globals. There's a button for that on the first page of the SYSTEM menu.

Yup tried that earlier. I have Michael Britt helping me out too

Quote from paults

I played my Powerhead through my 2x12 Jubilee cabinet today. I promise there was nothing bright and stiff about it.

There is something amiss in the settings, I think.

That’s what I’m hoping

Quote from Ingolf

If it doesn’t change and going back to normal after hitting INIT GLOBALS I'd contact support.

Is this a new machine or bought used?

It’s new from Sweetwater.

I’m wondering if it’s just my ears. It’s really plinky sounding if that makes sense. Chugging on high gain profiles is really stiff and doesn’t breathe at all. It’s been almost 3 years since I owned a Kemper and I’m having a hard time remembering what it sounded and felt like through my cab.

Quote from Raoul23

Welcome back Have you tried a factory reset and start again ???

Hey man!

I’ve done all the resets and it sounds the same. It has this high pitched plink sound on top of everything and very shrill.