Fostex A-8 - 3. Controls and Functions; Transport Control Buttons

3. THE CONTROLS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
1) Head shield gate
The head shield gate is manually operated. If the gate is retracted down, a
short downward push of its top edge Mil release its lock and the gate fully
rise by spring action. To retract it, the gate is pressed down and will be
locked at the limiting position.
2) Rewind button [REWIND]
Depressing this button transports tape at high speed from the right reel to
the left reel.
3) Fast forward button [F.FWD]
Depressing this button transports tape at high speed from the left reel to the
right reel.
4) Stop button [STOP]
All modes of ZERO RTN, REWIND, F.FWD, RECORD and PLAY will be cancelled and
tape stopped when this button is depressed.
5) Play button [PLAY]
Depressing this button puts the recorder in the play mode.
6) Record button [RECORD]
a) With more than one and up to four RECORD TRACK buttons depressed, simulta 
neous depressing both RECORD and PLAY buttons puts the tracks thus assigned
in the record mode .
b) With more than one and up to four RECORD TRACK buttons depressed and with
the transport in the PLAY mode, simultaneously depressing both RECORD and
PLAY buttons puts those tracks thus assigned to the record mode (punch in).
7) Return to zero position [ZERO RTN]
Depressing this button puts the transport in the rewind mode, automatically
rewind tape to "0000" of the tape index counter and then go to the STOP mode.
8) Record track selector [RECORD TRACK]
Tracks to be recorded on are selected by combined depressing of the RECORD
TRACK and GROUP select (9) buttons.
This recorder can record on a maximum four channels in one recording pass but
the remaining four channels can be recorded by using the GROUP select switch.
Therefore, either tracks 1 or 5, 2 or 6, 3 or 7, and 4 or 8, are selected by
the RECORD TRACK buttons and track groups of 1, 2, 3 and 4 or tracks 5, 6, 7
and 8 are selected by the GROUP select button.
a) When the GROUP button and the RECORD TRACK button are assigned, the LED's
located at upper left hand corner of each meter corresponding to the assign 
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