tape recording vs recording

tape recording and recording both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tape recording	Yes	No	No	No
recording	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, recording is a hypernym of tape recording; that is, recording is a word with a broader meaning than tape recording:

tape recording: a recording made on magnetic tape
recording: a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded

tape recording (noun)	recording (noun)
a recording made on magnetic tape	the act of making a record (especially an audio record)
	a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded
	a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded