CheerSoundsCheerSounds 8CountMixer – Make Your Own Cheer Mix
The Story Behind 8-Count Mixer
Cheerleading music is driven by customization. Song selections, voice overs and sound effects are the most common types of customizations that go into every made-to-order cheer mix. However, these customizations have been accompanied by higher prices and longer turnaround times.
The idea of a drag-and-drop 8-count sheet has been around for some time, but no company has been able to work out the technology of how to automatically build a mix. For the past 2 years, CheerSounds has been investing resources into a legally- and technologically-sound solution. While the industry continued using paper 8-count sheets, we had the working prototype of the “8-Count Sheet With A Play Button”. And, it was really hard not to tell anybody about it, because we were pretty darn excited!
In 2011, CheerSounds began offering customizable already-made cheerleading mixes, filling a void in the industry and satisfying a demand for teams with smaller music budgets. The ability for coaches to add voice overs to premade mixes, as well as alter tempos and swap songs without exceeding their music budget was pivotal in the cheer music industry. We used the information we learned from our online store to built convenience into 8-Count Mixer.
In 2012, CheerSounds unveiled its legal-cheer-music process to the public. By recreating the performances and recordings of popular songs and obtaining the appropriate mechanical licenses, CheerSounds could stream and distribute cheer mixes of the songs to the end user without the legal risk that comes along with using unauthorized samples, as competitors were notorious for. With the mechanical licenses and the ownership of the recordings in-hand, customized versions of the songs could be created without infringing upon anyone’s copyrights. If the demand for customization did not exist, this solution would have not been achieved, and the groundbreaking advancement of the “8-Count Sheet With A Play Button” would not be possible.
After two years of software development, CheerSounds is presenting the cheerleading community with the most customizable cheer music solution ever seen. Going by the name 8CountMixer, this one-of-a-kind app lets users build a cheer mix from scratch without requiring any music knowledge. A rich drag-and-drop interface means a mix can be built by simply clicking-and-dragging music, sound effects and voice-overs onto an 8-count sheet. In short, if you can count to 8, you can make a cheer mix. The most advanced feature, though, is the ability to preview the mix while you build it. The app “reads” the 8-count sheet and assembles the musical elements into a cheer mix. Press the Play button, and a visual guide lights up the beats on the 8count sheet as the mix plays, making counting and proofing intuitive. To ensure complete satisfaction, all of these features are available to the user without purchasing anything.
For more information about 8CountMixer, visit www.CheerSounds.com.