Hello! My name is Will Rudder and I've spent my entire life living somewhere in Middle Tennessee (Chattanooga to Nashville).

I grew up around music. I was the kid sneaking into bars to play the first set and then have to leave at 10pm. Music is in my blood and I couldn't be happier for it.

My goal is to create as much music as I can and help as many people along the way. The world needs musi...
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Hello! My name is Will Rudder and I've spent my entire life living somewhere in Middle Tennessee (Chattanooga to Nashville).

I grew up around music. I was the kid sneaking into bars to play the first set and then have to leave at 10pm. Music is in my blood and I couldn't be happier for it.

My goal is to create as much music as I can and help as many people along the way. The world needs music, and anything I can do to help what you hear in your head come to life would be an extreme honor.

In my 15+ years of engineering, touring, session work, and gigging experiences, I've played in almost all major styles of music. Rock is my major discipline, but I'm experienced in Pop, Country, Modern Worship, Blues, Funk, R&B, Fusion, and Prog.

I've mainly done engineering and session work out of Blackbird Studios in Nashville, as well as Playground Studios (miss that place). I'm also a part of VR Music Group based out of Knoxville, TN as an occasional producer, engineer, and session guitarist.

I've performed with Jimmy Hall and Kenny Greenberg, Coco O'Connor, Colton Dixon, Schyler Dixon, Experience Music, David Upton, and hundreds of local "9pm to 1am" gigs with my Dad's funky-blues bands.

My guitars are mainly a '98 PRS Custom 24, a '71 Les Paul Custom Black Beauty, a 2000's Carvin DC727, as well as an assortment of Tradition Guitars (similar to PRS) that I proudly endorsed for almost 10 years that all have their own unique purposes.

My amps are mainly a Ceriatone HRM100 (Dumble clone), a Matchless HC30, a Mesa Boogie Lonestar 2x12 combo, a Ceriatone AH 100 Deluxe (Friedman BE clone), and a Voodoo Amps Modified Mesa Boogie 3ch Triple Rectifier Rev G (modded to sound like a Rev F).

My cabs are a Mesa Boogie Oversized Rectifier Slant 4x12 loaded with English Celestion V30s, a Mesa Boogie Rectifier 2x12 loaded with Celestion GT-75s, and a Matchless Openback 1x12 loaded with a Celestion Matchless Specifically Designed 30-watt speaker.

I have a wide variety of high end overdrive pedals (Timmy, Klon Klone, TS808HW, DelMar, etc) as well as the Strymon "Stryfecta" for all modulation, delay, and reverb. Plenty of tools to get the sound out of your head and into a mix.
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