The plan was to record to tape and monitor off the play head and capture that in one pass, not recording to tape and then capturing it in a separate pass. It might not null against the original but it won't drift. The time offset will be essentially identical from start to finish.
Yup...I got it...but the offset is based on the quality/stability of the tape mechanics.
If you do that more than once, all those tracks then have to be in sync. Your assumption then is that the tape deck will always fluctuate the same on ever track...which isn't always the case, and you end up moving one track one way, only to find out the other track needs to go the other way...etc...etc.
He does also at some point mention "bouncing tracks" which to me implies multiple passes.
This is why the "poor man's CLASP" works only sometimes and up to a point. The real CLASP system is employing a full synchronization setup.
I said he should try it and see if he likes the results, because I know that tape fluctuations without any synchronization will be "in the ball park" but I've see even a few samples/frames of differences from pass to pass, track to track, make a very noticeable difference in the feel of how the tracks all sound running together...but the OP wants my "credits" to prove what I know...even though I've only been recording to tape and synchronizing tape decks to DAWs for about 25 years now, but it's just my word...I don't have a YouTube video showing how I record and how I bounce tape tracks to a DAW.
Anyways I'll come back to forums again in another 5 years. Gonna go play with music. Not snobs
Don't tease us...
...and when you come back in 5 years...I'll still know more than you about tape recording...plus 5 years.
Your problem is that you started off by saying that I said "you're stupid"...and everything that followed was about you being butthurt over something I never said.
Now I wish I had said it.
All I said was tape wasn't meant for making things dirty...and that multiple passes to a DAW are not easy to sync up just by aligning their start points. There was nothing "you're stupid" in anything I said.
Of course...you, like so many nebws around here, get quickly upset when you hear something that doesn't meet with your "brainwave" expectations.