# Achieving Equal Input Between Guitars **URL:** \ **Category:** Quad Cortex\ **Created:** [November 24, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/achieving-equal-input-between-guitars/8907 "2022-11-24T16:33:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sonicfog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sonicfog](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/sonicfog)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/achieving-equal-input-between-guitars/8907/1 "2022-11-24T16:33:00Z")
My P90 guitar seems to fit perfectly with the QC. But I plug in my humbucker guitars and they seem to overdrive every amp model, hard to get a clean. My single coil guitars seem a bit tinie and thin. What are users doing about this? Kneeling down and changing Input Levels? Setting up different Presets per guitar? Running a compressor in front? If so what settings? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![NigelGBR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/0ea827/32.png) [@NigelGBR](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/NigelGBR)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 5:32pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/achieving-equal-input-between-guitars/8907/2 "2022-11-24T17:32:40Z")
Single coils generally output about 6db less than humbuckers, and P90s will be somewhere between. Many people seem to have presets with 4 scenes or snapshots with increasing degrees of gain, leaving 4 scenes spare. If you use this system, you could duplicate scenes 1-4 to 5-8 and then include a 6db boost at the start of scenes 5-8. That can be enough, but I often find that some EQ is needed as well. If so the 6db boost can be incorporated into an EQ block with EQ adjustments. However I do often prefer to change the amp parameters for gain, EQ, volume, etc, so you could use the other scenes to do that. Even so, I usually end up with different presets! ---
**Author:** ![xush](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/unity.neuraldsp.com/xush/32/5100_2.png) [@xush](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/xush)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 5:41pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/achieving-equal-input-between-guitars/8907/3 "2022-11-24T17:41:57Z")
There are a few feature requests concerning the global input issue: > [@Input Profile for different instruments](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/input-profile-for-different-instruments/7998): > > One of the challenges I currently have with the QC is that, since my instruments have varying output levels, I have to go to the I/O screen and set my input level/impedence. Reason for this being that I always want my guitar, when the guitar volume is at max, to have a hot incoming signal to overdrive amp models. When switching from my Les Paul to Strat, the output dropoff is huge so I must raise the input level when using the Strat so it can overdrive and then back off the Les Paul so it does… ---
**Author:** ![sonicfog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@sonicfog](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/u/sonicfog)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://unity.neuraldsp.com/t/achieving-equal-input-between-guitars/8907/4 "2022-11-24T17:57:28Z")
Just voted for this!!