Why do guitars/amps use 1/4 over XLR?

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Hey all. I’m going to be hosting some general production training in and around audio production (things like what limiters do, and what gain staging is), and I got to a topic I wanted to cover which is between 1/4 inch cables and XLR cables. I then questioned myself as to why we have 1/4 cables if balanced XLR exists.

I did a little research and ultimately found that with an XLR you’d get a very distorted signal into it.

But WHY is the question. There’s a reason, and I want to know why we still use 1/4. Is it because pickups are louder than the XLR can handle?

Looking for a very in depth answer down to a physics/science.

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