sound check

noun

1. an on-the-spot rehearsal by a band before a gig to enable the sound engineer to set up the mixer

Example Sentences

Mr. Sheeran is an enormously good-natured performer, full of energy and hits—“Shape of You,” “Perfect,” “Castle on the Hill,” “Photograph,” “Bad Habits”—which he sings at a Hammerstein Ballroom sound check, walking the streets, riding the subway, accompanying a “surprise” marriage proposal, crashing a birthday party, and in a duet with singer Camila Cabello, who is behind the wheel of a van that one is pretty sure is hooked up to a camera truck.

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An hour or so later, the artist would head to sound check at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, where — despite a fever she was currently downing antibiotics to temper — she’d be playing later that night in support of her Bite Me Tour.

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“We’re just advocates of pure hip-hop,” says Amon, standing on the back patio of Echoplex just before their Defend L.A. sound check.

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Sound Check Manila, whose account curates music events in the Philippine capital, also wrote on X.

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At about 2:30pm, the band start their sound check.

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