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multitrack

British  
/ ˈmʌltɪˌtræk /

adjective

  1. (in sound recording) using tape containing two or more tracks, usually four to twenty-four

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As it unfolds, Mr. Ellis’s voice effortlessly slides between registers, conveying shifts in emphasis by judicious use of falsetto, which is often layered via multitrack.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

With eight-track recording coming into vogue during that era, Magic Alex vowed to provide the group with double the recording capacity — even if he didn’t quite understand what multitrack recording meant.

From Salon May 7, 2024

“I said, Hey, let’s forget about this multitrack stuff,” he recalled in the Minutemen documentary.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2023

It was one of the first times multitrack recording had been used for a vocal album.

From Washington Post Jul. 21, 2020

Sometimes the pair would hunker down in studio “with an Elton original on multitrack and just listen and work our way through what Elton was doing.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 29, 2019

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