Congratulations to Davenport University Panthers 2x National Champs!! We are so proud to be a part of your amazing performance, again!!!

Davenport chose our Elite cheer mix option. We recommend Elite mixes for NCA College teams, as well as most AllStar teams. To learn more about Davenport’s custom cheer mix, contact us! 

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Already know your choreography dates for the 2014 – 2015 season? CheerSounds will create your dance cut for choreography and schedule your full cheer mix for completion shortly after. Not only does CheerSounds provide the highest quality cheer music, we also have the quickest turn around time in the industry and a full time customer service staff.

CheerSounds Music Packages

Be sure to contact CheerSounds to schedule your new cheer mix. Visit us at http://www.CheerSounds.com , email us at info@CheerSounds.com  or give us a call at 321-549-2704. We look forward to working with you!

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Congratulations to SJSU’s Champion win at USA Collegiate! We are all very excited to have worked with you this year, and we look forward to many more years of watching you win! We had a great feeling about this team when we saw their practice run-through video. Working with the coach was an awesome pleasure; the team is very humble and did not want to be boastful, though we still managed to work their skill into their mix’s vocals.

SJSU’s mix is a CheerSounds “Champion Mix” package, which features loads of raps and voiceovers. Their mix was also made to a video of their routine, which makes an immense difference in how well the music fits the visuals. Judges noticed!

SJSU did all of the hard work and took home the Champion Title. We are proud to have made a champion soundtrack for them! To learn more about how to make your cheer mix sound like theirs, contact us!

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Cheer camp season is almost here! Whether you need cheer music for your team or for your camp, CheerSounds offers the best premade cheer mixes for the 2014 – 2015 season! Listen through all of our mixes, select your favorite and download it instantly. Want cheer music that is unique to your team or cheer camp? CheerSounds also offers many custom cheer music styles, with options to meet the needs of every division and budget.

Camp Cheer Music

One of CheerSounds’ favorite camp mixes is called Under the Lights and it definitely has songs that command the audience’s attention. Check it out at CheerSounds website here: http://www.cheersoundsexpress.com/Under-The-Lights-Premade-Cheer-Mix?filter_name=under%20the%20lights

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A few days ago, I received a phone call from Jalker Effer from Bogota Cheer Athletics. He traveled from Colombia to USA for Worlds, and made a special detour up to NY to see us.  This was a very pleasant surprise!

We only get to meet with Jalker once a year at Worlds when he comes to the States. We first met in 2012 and his team, Elite,  impressed us very much with their skills, attitude and enthusiasm. CheerSounds created music for BCA in 2012 and Jalker introduced our style of music to the rest of Colombia. This year, we have created music for three Colombian Worlds teams: BCA, Fox and Titanes, which all share the same common thread of “attitude matters most”. These teams are motivated times 10, and they have fun while working their tails off! Practice looks like a party – with discipline!  It is inspiring in a culturally-different way than we are used to seeing.

Interestingly enough, these three Colombian teams allowed Jalker to participate in the creation of their team’s music.  I have never seen competing teams contribute to one another’s music in USA, and I think it is an awesome demonstration of the bonding across competitors to represent their country with Pride. We are honored to create music for Colombia and we wish them much luck at Worlds!!

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CheerSounds is very proud to announce we will have 18 teams at Worlds this year! Be sure to check out their amazing routines, and the awesome music that supports it!

Sparks de Valleyfield – Black Crew

Thunder Elite AllStars – Ice

River City All Stars – Wanted

Extreme Starz – Force

Extreme Starz – Five Star

Las Vegas Elements – Eclipse

Five Star Athletics – Dream

Infinity All Stars – Majestics

Infinity All Stars – Wonder

Rising Stars – Ellipse

Fox All Stars – Magic

Titanes All Stars – Thunder

Mac’s All Stars – Senior Starz

Florida Triple Threat – Golden Catz

Pennsylvania Elite – Lady Devils

Rising Stars – Midnight

Infinity All Stars – Avengers

Bogota Cheer Athletics – Elite

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We are excited to announce that we have been chosen as the official cheer music mix provider for AmeriCheer and Eastern Cheer & Dance’s 2014 Summer Cheerleading Camps!! Learn more about The Camps here.

We were very excited when the camps asked to not only make cheer music, but some electronic dance tracks and house music. For those attending camp, you’re going to love these high energy tracks!!!   To learn more about how we can provide music for your camp or event, contact us!

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Working with teams is an ongoing relationship. We learn your routine, and we learn who you are. Only after that can we accurately create music and voice overs that support your routine.  CheerSounds is a music company founded from cheerleading, and that is not to be forgotten!

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We’re not a very secretive group of people, but we have two awesome projects coming your way that we are keeping a surprise. One of them is honestly the only one of its kind in the world, and it might have something to do with what Carmine’s shirt says. The other is something you probably wouldn’t have guessed about CheerSounds, but we’re tackling it with the same professionalism, quality and customer service that we dominated cheer music with, and most of you will find it incredibly helpful!

Here are the hints:

For surprise #1: It is driven by your choreography and your creativity.

For surprise #2: It can have as many colors your mind can dream up.

The unveiling of both of these features will be in June, and we can’t wait to hear your responses! We’ll keep you posted!

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Towards the end of our construction for our new office, I decided I wanted at least one of the booths to have that insanely awesome, “only in the magazines” look to it. Sure, it’s superficial, but it also sets a great mood in the room for creating music, and music is all about mood.  That makes sense, right?

Joking aside, the pictured room is 7′ wide by 8.5′ deep (picture taken from just behind the middle), which seems small at first but it is not when you realize you are just sitting in a chair in there. The floor, walls and ceiling cost about $8,000.  It’s ultra silent and has no reverberations.  This may seem unsettling to someone not used to it, but it’s great for critical listening, which is key for our soundalike productions. To break the absolute silence, turn on the 3 ventilation units which keep it nice and cool but add a dull hum. There seems to be a phasing issue around 160hz which I will have to address – possibly only with an ARC2 system - due to the square-ness of the walls of the booth. However, the treated corners seem to be responding very well.  All in all, for soundalike production and cheerleading music, the booth seems to be working great. And it looks fantastic!!

There is another booth with a smaller recording set up, used for mixing cheer mixes. However, it does not have the pretty lights…YET!

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During our regular cheer music work with thousands of teams, we have accumulated quite the list of success stories that we share with one another. Recently, we thought why not share some of these experiences with our friends in the spirit industry!

Over the next few weeks, we will post examples several cheer music challenges that we helped resolve, and are equipped to help other teams with when they face similar issues. The blog series is appropriately named “How We Help”, and we hope it makes more teams aware of how we can assist with their cheer music troubles!

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There are several circumstances that can leave a coach in need of cheer music quickly. Sometimes, coaches switch programs and take the music with them, leaving the new coach with no music. Other times, an athlete on the team takes on the music task, but the coach does not like the end product. In the custom music world, the most common issue we hear from clients goes something like this:

“Help! My current music person has not delivered my mix on time, and he/she is not responding to my emails! We compete in a week!!”

CheerSounds is here to help with these unfortunate situations. Our music production team is larger than any other cheer music company’s staff, enabling us to handle last-minute orders even during the busiest time of year. Our in-house, full-time customer service staff is ready to answer your questions and help you get the cheer mix you need. Custom mixes can be completed in 10 days or less, and various rush options are available as well.

Recently, a gym contacted us stating their current music producer, already two months overdue with their music, was pushing their due date back by an additional month. The team’s patience had run out, and they turned to us for help. Because they had already ordered music, they had 8count sheets and videos ready to go. The files were sent to us, and one of our producers started on the project the following day. The voiceovers rolled into our daily voice worksheet for our full-time vocal artist, and the rest was clockwork. The team had a cheer mix within the same week that they ordered music. Shortly after, the gym ordered 4 additional “Champion” mix packages and received all 4 mixes within 2 weeks.

It gives us great pleasure to not only help a team in trouble, but to provide an exceptional product that completes their performance. If you’re in a jam, here’s our number: (321) 549-2704.

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A large portion of our work is to create new sounds, advance existing styles and try new things with our cheerleading music.  While working on a mix for Crimson Heat Tigers Sr4, we put on our fighting gloves and went bigger than usual. Now, we are curious of what you think of it! Comments are welcome on the Facebook post, and on SoundCloud!

Note that small speakers such as cellphone or laptops will not do justice to this recording! Having a sub or larger system will help convey the sound, and you can only imagine how huge it would be in an arena!

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It seems like almost every All Star coach calls during the season and says “The dance choreographer is coming, can I have a dance cut? How much does that cost?”

The answer is: Yes! We complete many dance cuts before starting the rest of the routine’s music. A dance cut is $99 which is applied to the total cost of your cheer mix. Dance cuts are usually between 4 to 6 8-counts plus an intro, and features our remix of one or two songs of your choice.  They can often be completed within a week from the order date.

Note: CheerSounds does not create dance cuts without the scheduling of a complete cheerleading music mix.

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A musical vision can be difficult to convey. It is filled with emotion, style and subjection which can all be very difficult to put into words.  From a music perspective, It is easy to throw a cheer mix together; the challenge is to put a team’s style into music.

Sometimes, a coach will bring us his/her current music with the worry that it does not fit the team’s style. This can be challenging to remedy, because the mix they have may be great, but simply doesn’t jive well with the team’s attitude, aura, presence, energy, culture, style, etc.

Our solution to this problem is to rely on our cheerleading and musical experience. We ask the team to provide us with a video of their practice. Practice is a very organic environment; we get a taste of how the team interacts with one another, how they motivate each other and how they work together.  This can be drastically different from team to team, region to region, and especially with international teams.  By watching a team’s practice, we can interpret the amount of character, sassiness, aggression and momentum that the team’s music needs with amazing precision.  Putting a team under the magnifying glass ensures that our music interlocks with their routine, and always results in absolute satisfaction! Although we have to remake the cheerleading mix for the customer, they get a new mix that matches their choreography and their team’s vibe. Much better.

Although customers sometimes find it weird to send a video of practice, they are amazed by the results and return year after year with videos of their practice performances.

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Many of our customers think cheer voice overs come out of a computer – like a robot or some kind of voice over generator. However, this is not true! Voice Overs are written and performed by people

When we work on a mix, the first thing running through our minds is voiceovers – even before the music! The vocal process continues to run parallel to the music production process to ensure that the vocals make sense with the mix.  We record them “raw”, and then add effects as needed. Some tracks (like the telephone effect) only have 3 or 4 effects, but other tracks like the big yell track have 12 effects on to create that room-filling yell!  And, to be totally honest, it would sound pretty lame without those!

The process is much more involved, but I hope this quick video has shed some light onto how our voice overs are made.

P.S. Edward says I look “scruffalicious” in this video.

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Click-tracks and count-tracks used to be just for filming a routine to simplify music synchronization. However, many teams are using them for practice, as well as for when creating count-sheets at practice.  These simple tracks play music beats and say each 8-count and beat as you perform the routine!

They are available at a 2:30 length in a variety of tempos. Most teams use 144 beats per minute. More advanced teams use a faster speed. This is a great way to determine what speed your mix should be even before you order music!

Click Here To Download The Click Track Pack zip file containing 5 click tracks from 137BPM to 150 BPM.

Here is one of our click-tracks (at the most common tempo of 144bpm) for preview or use at practice:

CheerSounds_ClickTrack_230@144bpm

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We receive a lot of questions each week about cheer music, and every so often we receive questions about how to actually make cheerleading music. These are technical questions regarding cheerleading music production (or any type of music production, for that matter). One question I hear often is about the effects we use, particularly:

What are your go-to effects for EQ and Compression?

The group of us could ramble off all of the plugins we used in each of our last projects, but that would not be nearly as helpful as the response that I usually give, which is the following:

Audio Effects/Plugins are paint colors. Each one looks (sounds) different. You can have your favorite color, but it doesn’t mean it is the best color. The art is in how you use them whether on their own or together.

Leaving the analogy behind, I will provide an example of what I mean.

This past week, we were recording a new female vocalist for a singing part. Her voice was rather thin, and we were emulating the Britney Spears vocal production.  Usually, I dislike warm vocals – especially in pop music – but the artist’s voice was really hollow in the 400-800 range and did not fill the spectrum in the same way that Britney’s voice did in the target track.
Part of that “overproduced britney sound” is heavy comb filtering, which we had already done across the spectrum. This cuts out on a lot of the ugly resonance, leaving “pretty” harmonics behind. Normally, this gives a “smooth, glossy, warm” feeling, but there was minimal warmth coming from the original recording. Naturally, the first step was to try a few EQs to boost that range after the comb-filter, or cut the other ranges, but it just wasn’t giving the character we wanted – it sounded more like a proximity effect rather than a natural warmth. One of the producers suggested taking a characteristic EQ, like an API-560 to her voice, but it just wasn’t giving it the body we wanted.  My second idea was to use a harmonic exciter, but this was really taking the sound in a “talking through a tube” direction which I did not want it all.  I had one more idea, though.

I knew part of the target Britney sound was artificial; I could hear harmonics that I knew weren’t really prominent during the original performance.  This was likely due to analog gear not only being superior in compression capabilities, but also in adding analog distortion and warm harmonics, which we were not using during this recording.

So I had a thought: I usually dislike the Waves SSLComp plugin because although it is amazingly clean (even when driven!), it adds tons of warmth to emulate the character of those famous consoles. Normally, I would not use this compressor on any vocal tracks unless it was jazz/r&b (personal preference), but I had a feeling it would add that warmth – however the heck it does it!.  I drove the signal through it with a few adjustments and BAM, there was the body that I wanted!
One step closer to what I wanted, but still not all the way there.  The tone was a tad nasal, a tad “too much 3k but eq wont fix it”.  Thinking back on a Cher reproduction we did  (which involved some freakish vocal effects),  formant shifting – even in slight amounts – can make a huge difference in overall tonality.  I took this poor artist’s voice and shifted her formant down about 60 cents. WOW. Hearing her age about 10 years, without creating noticeable artifacts was just what this track needed. This project was getting better and better!

Now, any time you formant shift, the brightness of the track is decreased. This can be challenging to make it as pristine as the original recording. I used one EQ post-formant-shift to makeup some of the brightness. Luckily, I was planning on Low-Passing at 12k anyway, so I did not need all of the pristine air.

Carmine, you are rambling. What is your point?

My point is: Picking a few plugins for everything is the best way to pigeon-hole your skills.  LEARN YOUR TOOLS! Learn the character of every plug in you have. Know what will give you crunch, what is clean, what is warm, learn which plugins create artifacts and which do not, etc. etc. because they are all useful.

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On occasion, a coach will bring us music made by a local DJ, and his/her main complaint is “the music doesn’t sound like cheer music”. It’s a common mistake that many of us have made, but we live and learn!

Cheerleading music is, for lack of a better word, weird.  It is very alien to those who are not part of the industry. Bringing a cheer music request to an unfamiliar music producer usually results in a mix that sounds more like house music, or Saturday-night club music. It does not mean the DJ is bad, it just means he/she is not familiar with our unique style of music.

Cheer music is very “A.D.D.” and most people would not think to design a piece of music that changes so rapidly. At half the length of a radio song, mixes usually contain 6-8 songs plus another 6 voiceovers or raps! Non-cheer music producers also wouldn’t add in obnoxious laser sounds and explosions that stand out from the music. But we do, because it is part of our industry and part of our routine. These unique sounds, styles and flows define cheerleading music.

Another cause of this is sometimes producer talent. There are a large group of aspiring musicians, djs or producers that can hear the difference between two mixes, but do not know how to achieve the sound that they (or you) want. This is something that comes with time or experience, and their best mixes are likely ahead of them. Keep training!

In the scenario where a coach brings us “dj music”, we usually recreate the music from scratch, using the same requests that were given to the first DJ. The result, of course, sounds like cheerleading music.

Unless you specifically request a house mix, there won’t be any cheer mixes with a repetitive “bump bump bump” without giant explosions, wobbly risers and overly-excited voice overs coming from us.

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We have tricked many of you! Yes, it sounds bad, but we do it BECAUSE WE LOVE YOU!

Well, it’s not really trickery, because it’s written all over our website. CheerSounds uses what is known as Sample Replay, or SoundAlikes of popular songs when we are selling or distributing music to the public. This means that we cannot use the original recordings of a song (the versions you hear on the radio) in these scenarios. Instead, we recreate the song from scratch by re-recording all of the parts ourselves. By doing this, we now own the rights to the recording and have more flexibility with what we can do with the song.

CheerSounds is the only cheerleading music company using this technique, which keeps our clients and ourselves out of legal trouble. This process is something we kept secret for a while, but we decided that secrets are silly and we’d love to show you the amazing work that goes into these sound-alike projects!

CheerSounds has developed an impressive network of vocalists and musicians, and employs extremely talented engineers and producers to create these projects on a full-time basis.

One by one, we pick apart the track and reproduce the parts. The right vocalist is chosen to emulate the original artist, and he/she begins practicing the part. The musicians replay the musical lines, and the engineers create synthesized sounds. After the unprocessed recordings from the vocalists and musicians are complete, the engineer processes them and produces the rest of the project. This entire process is quite time-consuming, but very rewarding.

This post’s featured video gives you some insight into the engineer’s job and how we put together a Sample Replay / SoundAlike project. After the SoundAlike is complete, it moves on to be remixed and cheer-ified for you to use!

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