Crossword clues for soundboard
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) A board placed within a musical instrument to improve vibrations 2 A sounding board
WordNet
n. (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument [syn: sounding board]
Wikipedia
Soundboard or sound board may refer to:
- Sound board (music), a part of a musical instrument
- Sounding board, an attachment to a pulpit to assist a human speaker
- Alternate name of a mixing console, used to combine electronic audio signals
- Soundboard (computer program), a Web application or computer program with buttons that play short, often humorous sound clips
- Soundboard (magazine), a quarterly publication of the Guitar Foundation of America
- Sound board may refer to any circuit board used to produce or handle sound, such as a sound card
- Sound board, building construction material used for soundproofing
- Sounding board, a wooden board in a boat used to measure depth
- Soundboard, a pushbutton switch covered board which has a sound assigned to each. Used by talk show hosts.
Soundboard is a magazine published quarterly by the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA). The GFA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to furthering interest and knowledge of the guitar - primarily the classical guitar and classical guitar music. The magazine was started in 1974 and features academic research, interviews, listings of upcoming master classes and conventions, and more.
A soundboard is a computer program, Web application, or device, traditionally created in Adobe Flash that catalogues and plays many short soundbites and audio clips. Soundboards are self-contained, requiring no outside media player. In recent years the soundboard has been given a new stage on many mobile platforms, specifically in relation to the iPhone App Store and Google Play. With numerous soundboards to choose from there is no shortage of entertaining prank sounds, but some feel that the sheer volume of boards available and the number of them that specifically tailored to rude body sounds (e.g. iFart Mobile on iPhone appstore, BodyBoard on Google Play) has gone too far and many are calling for restrictions on this type of content.
Traditionally, builders generally take sound clips said by celebrities and combine them into one Flash creation. They are most often used in prank calls, when the caller uses the soundboard to imitate a celebrity or other well-known person. The individual on the other end of the call is usually deceived into thinking that they are actually talking to a real person. In some cases, the victim associated with the prank call has no idea who the person from the soundboard is, with one famous example being Matt Romney pranking his father by pretending to be Arnold Schwarzenegger using a sound board. Some users even record the calls and post them on the Internet. Soundboard prank-calling is often done with caller ID spoofing or masking, to provide a high level of anonymity or impersonation. The goal is often to create confusion or test how long the victim(s) will remain on the phone.
Usage examples of "soundboard".
Your office has told me little about the piano besides the fact that it is out of tune, which, I might add, is due to the swelling of the soundboard, not the body, as you mentioned in your letter.
A piano usually must be tuned several times, as the act of tuning one string changes the dimensions of the soundboard so as to affect all other strings.
The dry season will have resulted in the soundboard shrinking, loosening the strings and dropping the pitch.
Edgar saw the bullet hole immediately, an oval crack in the soundboard through which the floor could be seen.
I will have to replace the strings, and I need to take another look at the soundboard, but I think it will be all right.
He also brought a jar of paste made from burnt rice husks, which Edgar painted over the bottom of the soundboard before stopping to eat.
Erard, fine-tuning some of the strings, touching up areas on the soundboard that had not been covered with enough resin.
With the arrival of the rains, the soundboard had swollen, a nearly imperceptible change, perhaps noticeable only to those who wish to tune.
He slid a fat cassette into a slot and depressed a button on the soundboard, leaning forward, his voice as smooth and satiny as fudge.
Other father, downtown, is welcomed off the street of leather outlets and white teenage vagabonds into the odd brick fortress of a building by the soundboard man, apologetic, telling him the others are late, no sweat though, come in.
But there was no further sound, no echo, no ricochet off the soundboard courthouse tower and back.
Power cables snaking across the floor led from a portable RTG generator to the lights, the sensor pod, two tripod-mounted TV cameras and, finally, to the six-channel soundboard for his electronic guitar and its two monitor speakers.
They crawled quickly and deliberately around the chamber, climbing over each other, swiftly and carefully exploring the TV cameras, the RTG generator, the air tanks, the sensor pod, his soundboard and monitors, but otherwise keeping a respectful distance from Cassidy himself.
Laura stood at the soundboard, midway to the back of the house, coiling cables.
Quinn leaned against the soundboard, looked as if she needed the support to hold her up.