overmodulate

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overmodulate (third-person singular simple present overmodulates, present participle overmodulating, simple past and past participle overmodulated)

(transitive) To modulate too much.
- 2007 January 29, Jon Pareles, “New CDs”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  Perhaps that’s why the first and title song of “Some Loud Thunder” is distorted to become nearly unlistenable, and the next track, “Emily Jean Stock,” is wrecked by overmodulated drums.