Jared Gutstadt
CEO & Co-Founder
About
Built in Nashville by people who've been in studios.
Rebel Audio started because indie podcasters deserved better capture tools — not a watered-down version of an enterprise product, and not another Zoom wrapper. Founded Nashville, 2024. Bootstrapped.
Founder
Jared Gutstadt
CEO & Co-Founder
Jared spent 15+ years writing and producing music for TV, film, and commercial jingle work out of Nashville — the kind of sessions where every track gets tracked locally at 48kHz and nobody ships a bounce until gain staging is right. He ran an audio post-production house for eight years, finishing work for regional broadcast clients and cutting music beds for advertising agencies across the Southeast. The studio closed in 2022, but the obsession with clean audio capture never did.
Watching indie podcasters fight Zoom compression artifacts and manual re-sync headaches gave him the idea for Rebel Audio. "They were doing the same job I'd been doing in a $4,000-a-day studio — interviewing people, editing dialogue, getting it to air — but with tools that treated them as amateurs," Jared said. "The browser can do better than that."
He founded Rebel Audio in Nashville in 2024, bootstrapped, with Devon Calloway as CTO. The first public version shipped in September 2025. The office is on Demonbreun Street, three blocks from where he tracked his first real session.
The team
Devon Calloway
CTO & Co-Founder
Mara Okonkwo
Head of Product
Eli Thornton
Lead Audio Engineer
What we believe
Local-first by default
Your audio should never depend on a data center staying up during a recording. Every session writes to disk first. The network is for video preview, not your stems.
Indie-priced, not indie-capped
48kHz/24-bit capture, BWF/WAV multi-track export, and drift correction are not premium features here — they're the floor. The gap between 'free but degraded' and 'good but enterprise-gated' is exactly where we sit.
We hand off clean tracks, not finished episodes
Rebel Audio captures your lossless local tracks and gets them drift-corrected and loudness-normalized for export. What you do in Hindenburg, Descript, or Pro Tools after that is your call — we don't pretend to replace a post chain, we feed it.
Built in Music City
Nashville has always understood that the best tools get out of the way and let the art happen. Demonbreun Street runs through the heart of Music Row for a reason.