If you cannot find specific information regarding cleaning and polishing, take your instrument to a guitar technician for an inspection and a recommendation. This high gain input on your amp increases the signal level at the preamp stage, and produces a louder sound at lower volume control settings. In other words, if your amp's volume control is set at 3 for example, your guitar will be louder when plugged into the high gain input, when compared to the low gain input. But note that when the amp is turned up to full volume, there is no difference between either input. The high gain input might be useful if the output of your guitar's pickups is relatively low compared to other types of guitar pickups.
Lower output is a typical characteristic of most passive, single coil pickups.
Back to Top , or Contact Bandstand Q. I can't get enough volume and tone out of my microphone. This is impossible to answer with certainty unless we perform a physical test of the mic. Sometimes the answer lies in the mic technique of the person speaking or singing into the microphone. Using the proper type of microphone properly can make an amazing difference. If you speak or sing into a hand held microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern, do not hold it too far away.