As you gear up for the nest cheerleading competition don't over look a very important factor to a successful performance, MUSIC! The ability to hear and feel the music allows you team the rhythm they need to be the best. Here are some tips based on our experiences, we hope this helps

● Make sure you have legally obtained your cheer music.
We have head countless stories, where the sound people flat out refuse to play cheer music is they suspect the music is illegal or even from Apple Music (*).

NOTE: Unauthorized use and/or duplication of copyrighted material may be a violation of copyright law in the United States and/or other countries/regions. Copyrighted material includes, but isn't limited to, software, documentation, graphics, lyrics, photographs, clipart, animations, movie and video clips, as well as sound and music (including when MP3 encoded). Violation of U.S. and international copyright laws may subject you to significant civil and/or criminal penalties.
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● Make sure your cheer music is at the best sound quality, in an MP3 format at 128 kbps or better.

● Make sure you have more than 1 back up copy and a device / media (IE: Phone, MP3 player, Flash Drive, DVD or CD) to play our cheer music.
Purchased pressed CD's are accepted, BUT CD's CD-RW's, burned CD's are NOT due to compatibility issues.

▶Yes, sound professionals typically have all the latest digital gadgets, UNTIL, you decide to use an iphone (*) that only have earbuds (*).
♪ Quick side note, music is personal in so many ways, the lack of an audio output plug make earbuds a no brainer. We have had to actually pay music from a tiny iphone (*) speaker hold a microphone next to it so you could hear the very quite and distorted cheer music. As you could imagine it didn't go well and there were a lot of broken hearts.

● Make sure you have your cheer music ready to go.

★ Using a phone we suggest to have your music player loaded with your cheer music so push play is the only thing you will need to do. This includes temporary turn off or delay your phone from going to sleep, forcing the re-typing in your password.

Our preferred format is an MP3 file on a flash drive. Please note, your legally purchased cheer music is your music, upon the completion of the event the audio file are deleted from our systems. Most people have images of a DJ's at a party, club or wedding, entertaining the guests with banter and dance floor favourites. At ANY competition, a DJ or audio pro's job is to provided the best audio timed to a performer or performance. Unnecessary distraction can impair the ability to achieve this. The people that host such events are the people you need to direct most of your questions to, music questions can be addressed in your time slot.

As professionals our primary job is music and entertainment, not a host, planner or in charge of the many variations in sports "Game Day" competitions. It is up to the expert host / planners of the event to guide the event so all questions should be directed to them. ● WE DO play music provided by each team or squad as outlined above.
● WE DO play appropriate music at the appropriate or scheduled times as background music or might include fun group dances for fun participation.
● WE DO make announcements, based on importance and directed by the host / planners of the event.
● WE DO support all participants equally.
● WE DON'T MC the event
● WE DON'T play music from social media sites, like Youtube (*), Soundcloud (*), Spotify (*).
● WE DON'T judge, make decisions, plan, organize or direct competitions.
● WE DON'T allow anyone to use microphones unless directed by the host / planners of the event.