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
  • Nick told me there weren’t really many soundboard tapes from those tours either.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The tour began in Cincinnati, and this time tape was rolling straight from the soundboard.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Shiv, eager for this opening, plays her big brother’s emotions like knobs on a soundboard.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 May 2023
  • Bear left behind thirteen hundred reels of live soundboard recordings, of eighty artists.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • At the bottom is a soundboard, and at the top is a harmonically curved neck.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Things like getting a soundboard, lining up all the logistics.
    — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 27 May 2021
  • Today, photographers are moved to the soundboard - hundreds of feet away from the stage.
    — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
  • There’s no soundboard recording from the show, but a stellar audience tape has surfaced.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
  • 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
  • Stella had a soundboard made up of circular buttons, each of which dictated a word when pressed.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • Circular sanders smooth rough edges on costly Sitka spruce soundboards.
    — Joel Williams, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The meetings also serve as a soundboard for employee feedback.
    — Dahlia Ghabour, The Courier-Journal, 11 Oct. 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
  • Edmonds strummed a pink guitar that featured the American flag across its soundboard.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 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
  • Jones typically uses a glass soundboard to get a higher pitch from his ceramic calls.
    — Scott Einsmann, Outdoor Life, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the buck wandered across the auditorium stage, near the drums and soundboard.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • The sound quality is strong and clear, although a bit one-dimensional, like most soundboard recordings.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 20 Nov. 2023
  • According to Devine, Bunny can use the buttons on her soundboard to form four-word phrases.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • His character is seen behind the soundboard talking to Mattie.
    — Brooklyn White, Essence, 14 Apr. 2020
  • The band allowed a section exclusively for tapers, set up behind the soundboard.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Those were connected to a wire that ran back to the soundboard, where a roadie could trigger a phantom power supply, lighting both the bulb and the smoke bombs.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Tinkering away on a soundboard is music producer David Ott.
    — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Brian Tyree Henry destroys the soundboard at a recording studio.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022
  • 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

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