A playback head sits downstream of a record head, so anything already on tape arrives late. The fix is one switch on the front panel, and without it the entire history of multitrack recording does not happen.
A tape machine is a set of compromises made physical. Every control on the front panel is compensating for something the previous lesson established: that magnetisation is non-linear near zero, that a play gap wants to be small and a record gap wants to be large, that speed has to be genuinely constant, and that head-to-tape contact is worth thousandths of an inch of high frequency.
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