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Meet The Team



Justin Cortelyou
Engineer, Mixer, Producer
Justin Cortelyou is a Grammy-award nominated, and multi-platinum mixing engineer/producer. Justin started his career working with Chuck Ainlay at Soundstage Studios in Nashville before moving to Los Angeles to work with legendary mixing engineer, Mike Shipley at The Animal House. Following his time with Shipley, Justin teamed up with artist/producer Tommy Henriksen and in 2008, moved their operation back to Nashville, and began working with legendary producer, Bob Ezrin.
Sam Melrod
Manager
Sam, is our studio manager who moved to Nashville from New York City in 2019 to attend The Blackbird Academy. Born in the D.C. area, Sam moved to NYC to the attend The New School where he received a BA in music. As a student, he spent time interning at several prominent recording studios. He spent a majority of his time working at the city’s oldest recording institution: Sear Sound (formerly the Hit Factory).

Sam (Cole) Horn
Assistant Engineer Sam or as we refer to him, Cole, is our assistant engineer and tech who moved from Colorado to Nashville in 2022 to attend the Blackbird Academy. Upon graduation, he began interning with Jacquire King as well as at Soultrain. Cole is now the staff assistant at Soultrain, as well as a on-call engineer at the LBT Studio.
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