soundcheck

English

Alternative forms

• sound check, sound-check

Etymology

From sound +‎ check.

Noun

soundcheck (countable and uncountable, plural soundchecks)

1. (chiefly music) An activity that takes place before a concert, etc., when the performer and sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to verify the volume and tonal frequencies.
   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎^[1]:

     Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.

Translations

activity when the performer and sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system

• Hungarian: hangpróba (hu), soundcheck
• Swedish: soundcheck (sv) c

Verb

soundcheck (third-person singular simple present soundchecks, present participle soundchecking, simple past and past participle soundchecked)

1. (intransitive) To carry out a soundcheck.
   • 2007 November 2, Caroline Sullivan, “Why do gigs start so late?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     At a show by American singer Jeffrey Lewis in Leeds last month, he was still soundchecking at 11pm, and when Guns N' Roses made a comeback of sorts in 2006, their Hammersmith Apollo gig began at 11pm, and ended two hours later […]

2. (transitive) To perform (a song etc.) as part of a soundcheck.
   • 2023 June 7, Liberty Dunworth, “Guns N’ Roses soundcheck unreleased song ‘Perhaps’ ahead of Israel Concert”, in NME‎^[3]:

     Guns N’ Roses were heard soundchecking a previously unreleased song ahead of their recent show in Tel Aviv.

Swedish

Etymology

From English soundcheck.

Noun

soundcheck c

1. (colloquial) a soundcheck

   Jag brukar säga att all väntan, alla soundcheckar, att bo på alla hotellrum, det är det jag tar betalt för och jobbet på scen, det är gratis.

   I used to say that all waiting, all the soundchecks, staying in all these hotel rooms, this is what I charge for, and the performance on stage, that comes for free.

Declension

Declension of soundcheck

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	soundcheck	soundchecks
	definite	soundchecken	soundcheckens
plural	indefinite	soundcheckar	soundcheckars
	definite	soundcheckarna	soundcheckarnas

Related terms

• soundchecka

References

• soundcheck in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)