CheerSounds Lab: SoundAlikes & How We Trick You!

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!