# Why Silver Audio?

Hi all! 

Rushi here. I wanted to share the story of Silver Audio with you today.

I’ve been making music since middle school. Music isn’t just a way I express myself—it’s how I’ve built a community of people I feel the most comfortable with.

As I moved from place to place for school and work, my network of musicians and collaborators spread from coast to coast. Because I moved so frequently, I couldn’t really sustain being in a band. Instead, I started *The Folks Around Time*—a project designed to make space for anyone to contribute, no matter where they were in the world. Through it, I worked with high school friends, friends-of-friends from college, and even random musicians I met on the internet. I love taking a song I’m working on and having someone with a completely different musical background rework it.

One of those collaborators is Theja, the co-founder of Silver Audio. We met while doing our Master’s at the University of Ottawa, and he quickly became my best friend and longest-standing collaborator.

After finishing school, I left Ottawa but still wanted to work with Theja on music. While we made it work (we wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered an album and two EPs *completely remotely*), our workflow was a nightmare.

Our process looked something like this: I’d start a song and get it to a point where I wanted Theja’s production input. That could be at any stage—sometimes just a rough voice memo of me strumming and humming nonsense, sometimes a fully structured track with fundamental arrangements in place.

Theja would download the files, work his magic, and then re-upload them to Google Drive. We’d give each other feedback through whatever app we happened to have open—Facebook Messenger, iMessage, WhatsApp. At one point, I used Google Drive while Theja switched to OneDrive because he got a free upgrade from work.

It was a mess.

We constantly gave feedback on the wrong versions (was I supposed to comment on *BestSongv4\_mix* or *BestSongv4\_mixed* or *BestSongv4mix*?). When Theja sat down to mix, he might forget to check iMessage and only apply the changes we discussed on WhatsApp and Messenger. And sometimes, I wanted him to listen to a subtle synth track meant to add warmth to the song, but because I’m not great at mixing, he wouldn’t even hear what I was talking about.

There wasn’t a tool that solved all of these problems—so we decided to build one.

Theja loves the technical side of building, and I love the product and business side. With Silver Audio, we’re solving a problem we’ve experienced firsthand, and we’re creating something that helps artists focus on what really matters: making great music.

While we started with musicians in mind, we believe Silver Audio can also help podcasters, audiobook creators, and anyone working with audio. We’re excited to build a tool that removes friction from the creative process—because collaboration should be effortless.