sound checks
Pre-concert audio adjustments
Sound checks are the tests performed before a live performance or recording session to adjust audio levels, microphone placement, and equipment settings.
Musicians play briefly while technicians balance the mix: The band arrived early for sound check.
By extension, any preliminary test of audio equipment: Let me do a quick sound check before we start the podcast.
- microphoneAudio input device
- soundboardTone-amplifying wooden surface
- levelsHeights or ranked stages
- feedbackReturned response data
- testingExamining to evaluate
rehearsal · warm up · live music · monitors · front of house · back of house · PA system · mixer · amplifier · speakers · venue · stage · green room · crew · technician · one-two · gain · EQ
- open micsopen mic night, sign-up sheets, sign-up sheet, stage time, emcee
- music festivalsWoodstock, Tanglewood, headliner, main stage, festival grounds
sound checkslive performance
Unrecorded staged entertainment
the show · headlining act · opening act · encore · showtime
sound checkslive set
Real-time musical performance
musical performance · finished product · final mix · broadcast · studio recording
sound checkslive performance
Unrecorded staged entertainment
the show · showtime · main event · live set · the real thing
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