sound check

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

He explained: "It's a very hard life because you will do up to four or five hours to get there, you'll set up, you'll do a sound check, then you'll do an hour set, and then you'll pack it all down and move to the next one".

From BBC

I uploaded the album on my way to the sound check.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From Los Angeles Times