kyles3

Okay, so here's an update. Got some 50 ohm Sennheisers on sale, and whaddya know, no more volume problem with the Stomp. With the 80 ohm Beyers, I had the volume knob all the way up and it was still too quiet. Using the Senns, I only have the knob at 50% and it's the perfect volume with most of my presets. I'm really glad I got these instead of the 250 ohm Beyers I was also considering. I'm guessing they would've been even worse with the Stomp than the 80 ohm pair. So at the end of this whole saga, in this layman's opinion, if you've got a Stomp you want headphones with less ohms, not more.

I'm reading the manual and watching YT tutorials, but hoo boy is there a lot to get my head around as a lifelong bass-straight-into-amp guy.

Why do some of them have send/return blocks? I'm just running bass->HX Stomp->FRFR speaker with no other pedals, so are these send/return blocks actually doing anything, or can I just delete them? I did notice some of them are raising or lowering volume, so I was thinking maybe they're doing something in my case, but I'm not sure. I've never had an amp with an FX loop, so I don't understand all that stuff to begin with if I'm being honest. Second question is, I've noticed some of the presets utilize the stereo chorus. Am I getting a bad version of the effect using the stereo version through a mono setup? Should I just be replacing the block with a mono effect?

Okay, so I went ahead and dropped $35 on a cheap Behringer headphone amp. With the volume all the way up on the Stomp and the headphone amp, I finally get decent volume. But 90% of it is going to the left ear only. I can't win. It's just bizarre to me that my headphones work perfectly fine with everything but the Stomp.

I'm having the same exact problem on the HX Stomp with my headphones, the DT 990 Pro 80 Ohm's. Even with the Stomp's volume knob all the way up, it's super quiet. I have to go into the output block and jack up the volume by like 15db's just to get decent volume, using a preset that's plenty loud coming out of my Headrush speaker. For global settings, I've had input set to line and output set to inst. Changing these settings didn't make much difference. I usually keep guitar pad on, but turning it off only gave a slight bump in volume. Using the same headphones to listen to music on the computer, the volume's totally fine. No need to crank it. Only other headphones I have to try with the Stomp are some cheap wired earbuds, and they have the same low volume problem. I'm officially stumped.