sound recording

Other forms: sound recordings

Definitions of sound recording

1. noun

   a recording of acoustic signals
   synonyms: audio, audio recording

   types:

   audiotape

   a recording of sound on a long thin plastic strip treated with iron oxide, wound up in a small plastic case

   disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, platter, record

   a flat circular plate used for recording and playing back sound

   soundtrack

   sound recording on a narrow strip of a motion picture film

   talking book

   sound recording of someone reading a book; frequently used by blind people

   DAT, digital audiotape

   a digital tape recording of sound

   dubbing

   a new soundtrack that is added to a film

   laugh track

   prerecorded laughter added to the soundtrack of a radio or television show

   L-P, LP

   a long-playing phonograph record; designed to be played at 33.3 rpm

   78, seventy-eight

   a shellac based phonograph record that played at 78 revolutions per minute

   type of:

   recording

   a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded