Kyle Pudenz - Musician, Arranger & Producer
Kyle Pudenz

Kyle Pudenz

Stringed Multi-Instrumentalist, Arranger & Producer based in Nashville, TN Musician on master recordings by Tyler Braden, RaeLynn, Ben Rector & more Arrangements recorded by The Piano Guys, Dallas String Quartet, Mitchell Tenpenny

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Violin

$100

Fiddle

$100

String Arranger

$300

String Section

$350

Mandolin

$100

Acoustic Guitar

$100

Full instrumental productions

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Hi, I’m Kyle. I have worked as a touring and studio musician in Nashville, TN for over 10 years. I have a violin performance degree from Belmont University, but am also fluent on mandolin, guitar, & 7-string electric violin! You can hear my work featured on albums by Tyler Braden, RaeLynn, Benjamin William Hastings, Jared Blake, Dave Fenley, Jasmine Cain, Ben Rector & more. I also work as a professional arranger for artists and ensembles around the world, including Dallas String Quartet & The Piano Guys. From my home studio I have the capability to stack an entire string section to bring the feel of a live orchestra to your track. My recording rig includes Antelope Audio microphones & preamps, as well as plugins from Waves, Eventide & iZotope that enable me to provide tracks that are clean, clear, and mix-ready for your engineer. I also have access to top-level studio spaces in Nashville to record strings sections live. I have had the privilege of touring all over the world playing in genres including pop, rock, country, classical, jazz, & film music. These experiences have taught me a great deal about how to shape my own playing to fit the stylistic idioms of these many genres, and I will use this expertise to give your track the most authentic version of whichever musical influences you want to channel. I look forward to contributing to your next musical adventure!

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While my availability does vary a bit depending on my touring schedule, most times of the year I can deliver tracks for a single song in 7-10 days. For larger projects I will set a comfortable deadline based on your needs and my schedule.
I play & record the following myself: Violin - acoustic, electric, 7-string Viola - acoustic (5-string violin) Guitar - acoustic, electric, baritone electric, resonator (round neck) Mandolin - acoustic, electric (4 or 8-string) Banjo (5-string) Lap Steel (6 string) I can also record the following via subcontractors as part of an arrangement: Cello (acoustic or electric) Double Bass (string bass) Bass Guitar Drums Piano/Keyboards
You'll see a few of these listed at the top of this page, but for an exhaustive list of my current album credits as a musician, arranger & producer, please visit https://credits.muso.ai/profile/d43b7118-6e86-4970-92d9-d60f020b63eb
First of all, to answer the age-old question there is NOT a physical difference between a fiddle & a violin as an instrument, it all has to do with the style of playing. Through various phases of my career I have moved back & forth between the more classical violin sound and the folk/country "fiddle" feel. At this point I have played so many gigs as each that my true identity really floats somewhere in the middle, but when it comes to your project I will incorporate the stylings of whichever 'accent' I feel best suits the music you are making, which may very well be a mixture of both.
Either! If you have written a specific part that you want played on violin, mandolin or guitar and have a midi file or a PDF in standard sheet-music notation I can read from that. But I can also work from a chord chart, lead sheet, number chart, or you can just send me the audio of your track and I'll write my own chart. Whichever way you prefer to work, whether it's notated or by ear, I can handle it.
There are two main "phases" in the process of cutting strings on a song, and fortunately I am someone who regularly handles both of them. I offer a discount for clients that hire me to write AND record an arrangement, but can also stick to one or the other if you have a musician or arranger you prefer to use but are missing the other piece of the puzzle. First you need to have an arrangement written. While some players (myself included) do sometimes go into a session and stack string parts without writing an arrangement first, I don't recommend doing that when working remotely. Instead, I prefer to write an arrangement and build a demo using MIDI samples so that you can hear an approximation of what the final version will sound like BEFORE spending your money on the studio time to record it. We can make any required edits & revisions using the fake strings so that we know the version getting recorded is exactly what we need. Then there is the actual recording session where the live string parts get added to your song. This can be handled a few different ways; I can stack the parts individually to mimic the sound of a larger section, I can contract a string section to record the parts together, OR I can deliver the sheet music & MIDI file to you to record with another ensemble. Send me a message if you want to discuss the budget levels for any of these!
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