Balancing Volumes Among Different Guitars

[theapprentice]

Hello everyone. Lately I've been thinking about how one could make the volumes of different guitars uniform. Of course we know that pickup height determines output, not to mention tone of a guitar. However, I really wanted to go for fairly precise volume levels among my guitars, and so I was thinking maybe measuring current from the input jack would tell you how loud one guitar is, and then taking those values and try to match them on another guitar by adjusting pickup height and stuff.

Being a noise gate user, I think it would be really helpful for live situations. I find that some of my guitars don't sound right with the noise gate setting I have for another guitar and I know it has to do with volume differences. Not ultra necessary, but probably really handy for a lot of people, probably even for "tone zealots."

[theapprentice]

BUMP!

[toneboy]

Besides putting the same pickups in all your guitars, I'd just set-up the noise gate so it would be easy to tweak it quickly for different guitars. Other than that, I'd stick a compressor at the front of my chain to even things out.

[yeayearite]

+1 for the compressor.

[theapprentice]

I was hoping you guys could give me something a bit more precise when it comes to measuring pickup output in relation to the strings, something like using a multimeter to measure the AC current produced by a guitar when one strums the open strings, or something... Any method similar to the one I described?