What if my 2nd guitar has a higher output level?

Input menu, Distortion Sense

Do you have Distortion set to Global, or Per Rig?

Changing the Global Distortion Sense is likely too slow if you are changing guitars live, unless you copy the Performances, and adjust the copies for the higher output guitar, and use them when you are using that guitar.

Or, there is the old school approach. You can try lowering the pickups on the louder guitar, to make output a similar volume to the other guitar. If you count the number of screw turns, you can return the pickups to the original positions if needed.

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Input menu, Distortion Sense

Or just turn down the the gain a few db and save as new presets.

I would lower down the Clean and Distortion Sense until it's balaced to your main gtr, and than save that setting with the name of that specific guitar.

Anytime you switch to that guitar you can recall that setting.

we tend to choose a guitar for 2 reasons:

1) Because it looks or feels different

2) It sounds different ( single coil vs Humbucker)

If its for the first reason, I'd change the pickups to match more closely. If its for the second reason, I would modify my sounds to maximize the difference.

In my band, I use a Les Paul and a Gretsch White Falcon and the outputs are fairly different in output and sound. Because i use them for different songs and textures, I have a separate performance for each guitar and therefore the sounds to match. Its a bit of a pain changing the performance mid set but no worse that changing guitar!

Guitar Volume knob people. That's why it's there.

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Thank you all for comments. It confirmed my suspicion that there is not a global ‘gain control’ parameter that I can use. I will try at first with the volume knob of my guitar and in case this affects the tone too much, I will make a 2nd set of the performances adjusted for my 2nd guitar. Thanks for all advice and enjoy the day.

There is, as has been pointed out. It's called dist sense (and, I believe, clean sense) in the input menu. You can lock the input section so the settings don't change when you change profiles. You can also save presets for the input section for easy recall.

Think of the two controls as offsets rather than absolute values.

i use a boss ge7 next to the guitar to bosst only the volume of the weak Pickups to the similar volume of the guitar with the higher output. So you don t have to tweak the profiles and can switch beetween the guitars whenever you want only with one footstep.😉

Quote from EdRaket

Thank you all for comments. It confirmed my suspicion that there is not a global ‘gain control’ parameter that I can use. I will try at first with the volume knob of my guitar and in case this affects the tone too much, I will make a 2nd set of the performances adjusted for my 2nd guitar. Thanks for all advice and enjoy the day.

I disagree. The advice about having a separate Input preset is the way I do it. I have 5 that I created with different Distortion Sense settings: Vintage, Standard, SG200 (hotter pickups), Bass, Acoustic. Works great for me.

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I disagree. The advice about having a separate Input preset is the way I do it. I have 5 that I created with different Distortion Sense settings: Vintage, Standard, SG200 (hotter pickups), Bass, Acoustic. Works great for me.

Same here.