Recording Degradation on Recording to reel to reel

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.

I think I remember hearing somewhere that in the good ol’ days of analog tape (pre-digital), Fleetwood Mac, while recording Rumours, had to go back and re-record some instrument tracks, because the master tape they were using had passed over the tape heads (probably at least a hundred times if not more) so many times (probably at 30 ips), all of the high end frequencies began to wash away.

I don’t think you need to worry about even 20 passings over the tape head. I have some prerecorded 7" reel to reels from the 60’s, and they still sound excellent.

Interesting Discussion!  Thanks