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overmike

overmike verb: to make too loud by means of a poorly positioned microphone.

Verb

overmike (third-person singular simple present overmikes, present participle overmiking, simple past and past participle overmiked)

  1. (transitive) To make too loud by means of a poorly positioned microphone.
    • If the recording is misequalized, overmike, or poorly reverbed, the C/II will expose these faults.1988, High Fidelity - Volume 38, Issue 2, page 28
    • No, they don't sing, but on the plus side that means they're not overmiked either.2007 November 21, Charles Isherwood, “Broadway Is Mostly Dark, but Oh, All the Other Places to Go”, in New York Times

Forms of overmike

third-person singular presentovermikes
present participleovermiking
past participleovermiked
pastovermiked

Origin of overmike

From over- + mike.

Questions about overmike

What does overmike mean?
Overmike means to make too loud by means of a poorly positioned microphone.
What part of speech is overmike?
Overmike is a verb.
What is the past tense of overmike?
The past tense of overmike is overmiked.

Words near overmike in the dictionary

  1. overmigrate
  2. overmigrated
  3. overmigrates
  4. overmigrating
  5. overmigration
  6. overmike
  7. overmiked
  8. overmikes
  9. overmiking
  10. overmild
  11. overmilitarize

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