How to Use soundboard in a Sentence

soundboard

noun
  • The soundboard doesn't just grant you a number of fake excuses to leave the call.
    Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The vibrations travel down the strings to the top of the guitar, called the soundboard, and then displace the air inside the body.
    New York Times, 28 Nov. 2020
  • There’s another soundboard—this one sold for $2.99 in the App Store.
    Arielle Pardes, Wired, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The three-song set was recorded through the venue's soundboard and released two decades later by White's Third Man Records.
    Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2019
  • At the bottom is a soundboard, and at the top is a harmonically curved neck.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
  • In most shows, the media is told in advance that photographers can shoot the first two or three songs, from the pit or soundboard.
    Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 29 June 2017
  • The instrument was in pieces, a photo provided by Ms. Serres shows — the neck ripped from the body, the strings yanked and the bridge taken off the leather soundboard.
    Maria Cramer, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Perry emerged from the palm of a large hand situated at the end of the runway that nearly reached the soundboard at the other end of the arena.
    Timothy Finn, kansascity, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Today, photographers are moved to the soundboard - hundreds of feet away from the stage.
    Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
  • The bio page on his website, cannatamusic.com, features a skeleton collapsed at a soundboard.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The staff in the office can work remotely, but the people who work the lights and soundboards orbuild sets can't do their jobs if the curtain won't go up.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Moves up to the front and looks over at the soundboard, standing at the back almost alone, a fashion plate in his sky blue mohair cardigan and plum wide-legged pants.
    Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • For the Code Orange show, Singh pulled audio directly from the soundboard to get the cleanest signal.
    Popular Science, 16 Mar. 2020
  • According to Devine, Bunny can use the buttons on her soundboard to form four-word phrases.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, the buck wandered across the auditorium stage, near the drums and soundboard.
    Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Shiv, eager for this opening, plays her big brother’s emotions like knobs on a soundboard.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 May 2023
  • In 1984, the band created a taper’s section behind the soundboard.
    Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Things like getting a soundboard, lining up all the logistics.
    Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Bear left behind thirteen hundred reels of live soundboard recordings, of eighty artists.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • There’s no soundboard recording from the show, but a stellar audience tape has surfaced.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
  • The studio is warm and inviting, with bamboo plants, a ProTools soundboard and Genelec speakers.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2023
  • Edmonds strummed a pink guitar that featured the American flag across its soundboard.
    Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Stella had a soundboard made up of circular buttons, each of which dictated a word when pressed.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • The sound study prepared in conjunction with the CEQA report set that limit at 95 decibels at the soundboard for concerts.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
  • The struggle at the time was that no soundboard chips could fit inside a realistically sized lightsaber hilt.
    al, 14 Mar. 2021
  • Bezuidenhout tried shutting the piano lid, so that the soundboard was completely enclosed.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The bootleg is a soundboard recording of that first night, striking in its sound quality and the most sought after concert recording in the band’s history.
    Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Dec. 2020
  • To make them, Bleach producer Jack Endino reconstructed the live tracks from stereo soundboard tapes.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The sound quality is strong and clear, although a bit one-dimensional, like most soundboard recordings.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The Billboard Hot 100 topping-singer also shared a snap of a Polaroid photo of two collaborators resting on a soundboard.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 28 Dec. 2023

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