"were already recorded" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that happened before the present moment. For example: "The results of the experiment were already recorded when the team arrived."
"There may be very rare occasions where shows that were already recorded – or whose panels were already booked ahead of the order – still have all-male line-ups, but hopefully the change should really become apparent," the spokesman said.
Finally, ten further witnesses (Nos. 16 25) were already recorded by Johnson: some of these, marked by an asterisk, might also contain excerpts from the Compositiones tradition.
Scotti Brothers Records' contract planned an April 1983 release date for a twelve-track album: "I Love Rocky Road" and eight other tracks were already recorded, "Another One Rides the Bus" would be the original 1980 live recording from The Dr. Demento Show, and the last two songs ("Ricky and Buckingham Blueses") would be recorded at Scotti Brothers' own studios in Santa Monica, California.
Two of our six data sets were already recorded in DoCDat (for their national use) – cancer registration and Hospital Episode Statistics.
Checking the neighbourhood for earthquake-proof buildings - UNICEF / Chris Schuepp / 2012> Since most of the films were already recorded yesterday, including a very entertaining nightshift with a fake earthquake and extremely good amateur actresses (aunts and mothers of the participants), we can focus on the remaining few today and also already start the editing and fine-tuning of the films.
EAK94850 (NCBI Protein Database Accession Number) and EAK94909 (NCBI Protein Database Accession Number) from C. albicans were already recorded in the protein database at NCBI as "dehydrins", but exclusively on the basis of their homology with DHN6 from H. vulgare, the same protein which represents the best hit of the known biological role for TbDHN1.
"And we were already recording all of our lectures in high-definition video and posting them online for internal use".
Keith, who did not even know who Young was, told the film-maker Jonathan Demme in 2005: "They were already recording [Harvest] at the time.
Public Enemy were already recording their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam, 1988) when Bumrush hit stores.
And the truth is: you'd be lying if you didn't see that they were already recording half the story themselves.
— Stéphane Delorme 2. The Screenplay, with Dialogue "Films, the shooting of which will have served only to illustrate in images what was already recorded on paper".
