recordist

noun

re·cord·ist ri-ˈkȯr-dist

: someone who records sound (as for movies)

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Throughout the event, a guy bounds around, introducing the recordists, then crouching to cue their recordings on a laptop, his dark, longish hair under a black dad cap bearing the club’s name. — Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 The annual Visionaries Tribute, to be held on the festival’s opening day at Gotham Hall in Manhattan, will see Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and filmmaker-sound recordist JT Takagi honored with Lifetime Achievement awards. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026 Track 1, first minute taken from audience recording (recordist unknown). — Jem Aswad, Variety, 25 June 2026 An avid field recordist, Kamaru has spoken of running his documentations of his surroundings—buses and bustling markets in Nairobi, sirens and birdsong in Berlin—through various types of digital processing, stretching and mulching and interweaving them with synths until the humdrum becomes musical. — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 21 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for recordist

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circa 1930, in the meaning defined above

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