A recording made directly from a radio or television broadcast, used by broadcasters and performers to review their on-air performance.
From 'air' plus 'check' (from French 'chec,' meaning 'to test'), describing a recorded check of what went out over the airwaves.
Before modern recording technology, radio DJs would ask engineers to make airchecks so they could hear how they sounded on air—now musicians' airchecks from legendary broadcasts are priceless historical artifacts!
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