Mentioning a shem of Hashem

Listening to a number of old and some new recordings, I get the impression that the old minhag was not to be makpid to avoid mentioning the other names of Hashem (קל, אלקים etc.) even in situations where one would normally avoid mentioning the שם המיחד (the shem of Adnus), e.g. when recording a tefilloh with shemos in it. Is/was the minhag to distinguish between the שם המיחד and the other שמות, and in what situations where it's considered inappropriate to use the שם המיחד is it still OK to use the other שמות? (Of course, all this pertains to shemos other than the Shem Havaya, which is never said outside the Beis Hamikdash).

Thank you for all the good work in explaining Minhag Ashkenaz,
Melech

Might it make a difference which t'filah is being recorded. For example, I once asked someone from Silbermann Yeshiva to record their Nusach of Nishmas (the whole tzibbur sings the whole Nishmas together from the beginning until the end of Yishtabach). He said all the sheimos, except for those in the bracha. Perhaps there is a difference between saying the sheim in a bracha, in which case it might qualify as a bracha l'vatala, and a sheim in a t'filla which one could say at any time one wished.

MPerlman