underwhelm
/ˌʌndəˈwɛlm/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˌʌndəˈwɛlm/
ˌʌndəˈwɛlm
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ˌʌndə - ˈwɛlm -> underwhelm
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- ‘You will need some mixing software, turntables, and lots of imagination and an a cappella vocal track.’
- ‘In order to hear her, he put his hand on the turntable, holding the record in place.’
- ‘Out of nowhere James appeared with a turntable and a record already in place.’
- ‘The standard set-up of two turntables and a microphone goes back to Jamaica sound systems and was imported to the Bronx by Kool DJ Herc in 1973.’
- ‘He spun the chair around to face the turntable and knocked the tonearm with his hand.’
- ‘We've got three men armed with turntables, a cassette recorder, percussion, a bass guitar, and a busted CD player all beating each other up for attention.’
- ‘Other crews will bring their sound systems - turntables, microphones and speakers and voices.’
- ‘The attics will be ransacked, the old turntables and cassette decks will be dusted down.’
- ‘Typically, he will cover a turntable in glitter or a loudspeaker in a tight-fitting sequined tank top, thus rendering each object quite unable to function.’
- ‘We found one bloke there, interviewed him under caution, and took the turntables and records.’
- ‘When he's not busy personally rocking the mike, Peter spends time on the turntables, crafting delicious sets of indie rock, pop and rap.’
- ‘If you want to hear what shaped the sound of the rookie Red Hot Chili Peppers, put that record on the turntable.’
- ‘We set up her turntables and I practiced actually mixing records for the first time, which was fun.’
- ‘‘I was just a 14-year-old kid with turntables and some jungle records in my room, ’ he says.’
- ‘A group of five young people, aged from 19 to 21, have spent the past year overseeing work on the studio, which includes a recording deck, mixing track, samplers and turntables.’
- ‘If you have a hi-fi turntable and a record that jumps, place a one cent coin on top of the stylus arm.’
- ‘This Russian kid mixes with a turntable made of tape decks.’
- ‘Later when she had gotten the two boys down for the night she went back into the living room and put the record on the turntable.’
- ‘We made a few things on two turntables and a tape player.’
- ‘I put the record on his turntable, and you could see the opening string parts really got to him.’
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