My main objective with a home studio - I could get into doing full band demos - but my first objective is to cut things like guitar tracks and solos at home.

We're always in that head space about the audience and less about us at that moment.

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.

When we make those guitars we make tons of prototypes, I have all those. And once a guitar has come out there's all different versions and colours and woods and I have all those. There's hundreds of them.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am.

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.