taping vs recording

taping and recording both are nouns.

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

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

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

taping (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