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The only show some bands play to an empty room and mean it.
means The pre-performance ritual of testing microphones, instruments, and speakers so the actual gig doesn't sound like a kazoo in a wind tunnel.
from Plain English compound from sound plus check, born with amplified live music in the mid-20th century, when electricity made it possible to be loudly, expensively wrong.
Sacred phraseCheck one two is the genre's universal prayer.
Diva clauseSome contracts demand soundchecks bands then skip entirely.
Empty roomsAcoustics change once bodies absorb the sound later.