Problem With Headphones Connectivity - Pod Hd500

[xxxmafiamxxx]

hi,

So here is my setup
 POD HD is hooked to my PC via USB

And im using it as my main soundcard With Headphones Connected in the Phones slot

Everything was working just fine until i Forgot to lower my Master volume ,i ran Windows Media Player and Sound was so loud the Media player Stopped working

 

Now whenever i play anything from my Computer it Hesses for a second then sound stops working , ive to unplug the USB cable then plug to make the computer sound work again  for a second or two then it stops.

 

Guitar sound coming from POD is wroking just fine  and my headphones is alive and sound  as i ran the same thing with my PC soundcard on with the same phones and it works just fine

[smrybacki]

I fear you may have fried your PCs sound hardware my unfortunate friend....

[Charlie_Watt]

Did you try a reboot?

[radatats]

ok, just to clarify.  Sound from POD through headphones without USB is good.  Sound from computer through headphones without USB is good.  Sound from computer through USB to POD to headphones is messed up. 

 

- try rebooting both devices

- try reloading USB drivers for POD

- try using a different media player and see what happens.

 

There is no reason Media Player should have stopped working just because the POD was turned up.

 

Were you also recording through USB at the time?

[xxxmafiamxxx]

generally anything comes from POD when its set as my Main soundcard stops working with this specific headphones hooked to it , whether its Media player.. or my DAW or anything that makes a sound... it just goes on for seconds then it dies

 

Headphones works perfect when its hooked directly to my pc soundcard ..

i tried rebooting.. uninstaled the POD drives and reinstalled .. still nothing works  , Could be a problem  happened to my headphones after that sound explosion, but what  confuses me is that it works just fine on anything else but  the POD

 

Another note., i tried hooking another Speakers to my POD and it works just fine 

[NucleusX]

You weren't connected to PCI or PCI-E soundcard at the time by any chance ?

Easy enough to swap out an offboard soundcard, not possible with onboard.

[xxxmafiamxxx]

i dont know why everyone is getting it wrong..

my PC soundcard IS NOT THE PROBLEM

 

its my pod when its hooked as my Main soundcard ( for Recording and other DAW things)  that is causing problems when connected to this specific Headphones even though the same headphones are working just fine on my pc soundcard and basiclly anything else

[Sixstringsling]

Try different USB cable and port on PC

[NucleusX]

+1 on the USB cable and port.

 

You might have your sampling rates set wrong in the windows mixer

devices section. This can cause all sorts of suprises and even

prevent any output. Check em out and make sure the POD

is set to 16bit 48Khz in both recording and playback sections

in windows aswell as the POD's internal sampling rate settings.

This seems to be the least problematic setting.

 

 

Also, I would check the impedance of your headphones with

a multimeter. Lets assume your headphones are rated @

32ohm for the moment. Make sure both left and right are of

equal resistance, if one headphone is a different resistance 

to another by a certain amount, say about %10 +, This

would indicate a problem. If they are equal and between

16 to 48 Ohm then id say your headphones are just fine.

If they are equal and below 16 Ohms or above 48 Ohms,

then this would indicate an issue with them aswell.

This would definately rule them out as the cause

if you try testing them in this way.

 

The most dreadful possibility this might be with it is that

you did damage to the POD's internal headphone amp.

 

Sometimes the simplest of things can be over-looked

when it comes to rare and unique faults.

 

Hope this helps.

[xxxmafiamxxx]

well.... POD itself works fine with the headphones (guitar sound only) even when pc sound stops working... guitar sound still intact

Headphones works perfect when played the same thing but this time hooked to pc soundcard

 

 

my assumption is that maybe that sound boom scrambled certain frequiencies for the headphones coming from the POD so it shuts down the whole signal

 

But what makes sound stops working from a Device if its output (the headphones) is faulty???..  its like saying... My CPU is not running because im having problems with my monitor

[NucleusX]

If your not prepared to try any of these things cause you think you know

what your doing then I don't know what your doing here in the first place.

If you don't got an open mind you'll never sort this out.

We are trying to give you steps for a process of elimination.

 

"my assumption is that maybe that sound boom scrambled certain frequiencies

for the headphones coming from the POD so it shuts down the whole signal"

 

This makes no sense at all. And im not trying to be rude.

[xxxmafiamxxx]

i tried reinstalling a new driver and i changed the usb cable the problem is still there ,

anyway ,i came here hoping it might be a common issue with a solution but looks like im gonna have to get another Audio interface as im having quite alot of problems with POD's interface already

thanks for assistance anyway