over-recordv.
/ˌəʊvərᵻˈkɔːd/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊvə(r)rəˈkɔrd/, /ˈˌoʊvə(r)riˈkɔrd/ Sound Recording and Television.
1. transitive. To record (a work or performer) too frequently. Also intransitive: to record too many songs.
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > make recording [verb (transitive)]
phonograph1878
gramophone1908
press1918
to put on wax1932
wax1935
cut1937
tape1950
tape-record1950
audiotape1961
to lay down1967
over-record1977
1977 Gramophone Mar. 1467/1 They might well buy the disc for Sabicas, who is not over-recorded these days.
1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Jan. k1 Rock groups, especially the bigger groups, are starting to overrecord. ‘Just two or three extra cuts, but they decide to hold them because some sucker from Hollywood is going to come along and offer them a whole lot of money.’
2000 Daily News (New York) (Nexis) 3 Oct. 18 [He] has recorded ‘only 30 or 35 tracks. It's typical of Michael to overrecord. He'll probably hone them to about 10’.
2. transitive. To record (a new recording) over an earlier one.
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1993 Videography Winter 105/1 You can't over-record B-roll on the timeline and then trim back to reveal the A-roll underneath.
1994 New Jersey Law Jrnl. (Nexis) 8 Aug. 56 The recorder..was at some subsequent time rewound back to a certain point and restarted recording another conversation, thus obscuring the balance of the original conversation that was being overrecorded by this new conversation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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