play something back

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Recording sounds and images
analogue
audiovisual
balance
binaural
binaurally
cut
deepfake
digitally
fast-forward
low-resolution
misrecord
mix
monophonically
play something back
postproduction
prerecord
remaster
rewind
sample
videotape

playback | American Dictionary

playback
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈpleɪˌbæk/
the act of listening to or watching something that was previously recorded:
[ C ]Each playback will sound as pure as the original.

Examples of playback

playback
Two additional slide sensors are positioned on the body (figure 2), enacted by the picking hand to shape the playback of live and recorded sounds.
The soundfile utilities include waveform display, playback controls and properties display.
If the cycle is at its five-day peak, then there is a greater probability that a pre-composed sound will be selected for playback.
To playback, the user first highlights a sequence of utterances with the mouse.
Indeed, in four of the eight flocks formed after playback, a drongo was present, while babblers were not.
The oral stimuli are presented in recorded formats, on a tape recorder or by digital playback.
There are class-specific windows for derived chromosome classes and for global parameters affecting all playback; reverb time stretching was mentioned above as one such case.
It includes classes for, amongst other things, 56001-based synthesis/processing, audio recording, playback and editing.
The second approach animates operations in reverse order and is a pure reverse playback of the original animation recorded as a movie.
After recording, the playback tempo of the sequence can be speeded up with no adverse effects.
The feedback is set to 'ping-pong' delay with left playback fed to right record and vice versa.
During the final years of the 1970s, the development of two important playback devices helped to crystallise the cassette's pre-eminence.
During playback the observers noted any species they heard or saw approach within 15 m of the speaker.
Playback is over four loudspeakers (even though the sound format is stereo).
As the sensing is decoupled from the playback, the sensing doesn't impact the qualities of the played sound but controls only its temporal characteristics.
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