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soundcheck

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Other forms: soundchecks

A soundcheck is the test run before an audience is let in. Do a soundcheck.

The room sounds completely different once it is full of people, which is the problem nobody solves. A soundcheck takes longer than most of the performances that follow it.

Naomi Lir from Toronto, Ontario, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of soundcheck

  1. 1nounsoundcheckThe test run before an audience is let in.B2

    “The soundcheck ran two hours and the set lasted forty minutes.”

soundcheck is a test.

Where it comes from

Sound plus check, from the practice of checking each channel in turn.

From sound + check.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Music & Instruments

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soundcheck in the wild

  • Once the guitar equipment has been set up onstage, the guitar tech does a soundcheck to ensure that the equipment is working well.

    Guitar tech

  • A soundcheck is the preparation that takes place before a concert, speech, or similar performance to adjust the sound on the venue's sound reinforcement or public address system.

    Soundcheck

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.