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don’t have to work hard to get a great tone out of them. The guitar stays in tune, it sounds good, you feel inspired when you’re playing, and you don’t have to wrestle with the EQ or figure things out on your pedalboard to find the perfect setting where it sounds amazing. I know that comfort has to do with what you’ve played before, and if you’re a long time Strat guy and you find a great instrument, you’re going to feel like that’s home base for you, just from sheer familiarity. But, for me, one of the major reasons I went with PRS is because nothing on that guitar is distracting to play. Yes, it’s a unique guitar, but there are so many people now that play them. But when I started, it was pretty unique for the lead worship guy to be playing one. We keep coming back to this in our conversation - it was important to find a guitar that fit what I wanted to do, and made it easier to do my job, even if nobody else was playing them in the worship environment then. May 2018 WorshipMusician.com 39