soundcheck
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- noun
- /ˈsaʊndˌtʃɛk/
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prueba de sonido
- Before we start the performance, the technician will perform a quick soundcheck.
Examples
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Soundcheck's at 7:00.
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Instead of going through their usual set of hits and favorites, Browne and his band recorded new songs onstage, backstage, in hotel rooms, on the bus, at soundchecks, and wherever else inspiration might have hit them.
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Dude, soundcheck was supposed to start like three hours ago.
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Do as much of your set as you want for the soundcheck.
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I have to go to soundcheck.
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Anyhow, we're doing soundcheck at this club; there will be 3 bands, 2 that are more country than our rock band.
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I'm pretty quick with setting up my guitar rig, and they'd already done a preliminary soundcheck.
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Johnny Foreigner finally made it onstage after some real-time soundcheck around 11:20.
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It's very much like somebody shows up to a soundcheck and plays something like a Metallica tune; you go, "Oh wow," and everybody knows that Metallica tune, so we start to jam along to it.
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The band arrived early to conduct a soundcheck before their concert.
Synonyms
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An activity to check how well something works
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An act of looking at something to make sure it is correct
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A check you do before an event to find problems
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Soundcheck is a simple combination of sound ('audio' or 'the noise you hear') and check ('to test' or 'examine'). It was the routine before a show when technicians tested microphones and speakers, so a soundcheck is the actual test to make sure the sound works.