Your right man. The tape is needed as a visual marker for the final step. As long as you don't fall into making one blade way out of balance using tracking tape to get them tracked. Doing that can defeat the purpose of blade balance in the first place. I've never had to make adjustments adding tape weight to get my blades fine tuned though because they are already balanced before they go on the bird. One turn either way gets them right in, but I do that by making adjustments to one blade's pitch or the other.