Recording Degradation on Recording to reel to reel


Is there significant degradation when tape is recorded to 3-4 times? Does it take more to notice a difference. I usually run maxell UD tapes at 7.5 ips.

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Every EVERY time it is dragged over the heads it loses something. The same with cassettes. I notice it every time. Can't say for you.

 

Pre recorded  tapes were duped at higher speeds.  Irrelevant to the question. In 40 years of intensive tape recording I could immediately tell if the best available tapes had ever been previously recorded upon. Cheap tapes were so bad to begin with it didn't matter.