No worries.
For anyone who cares to know more about the difference between Record and Replay, the differences which I can remember are:
'Record' is in sync, 'Replay' is in Repro. Replay inhibits group switching, so that -even if you have things switched to 'ready group' (group-monitor) switching to 'replay' also automatically reverts these channels to 'ready tape' (tape monitor) so you can listen to a playback ('replay') without having to tediously deselect all of the group monitor buttons. 'Replay' also automatically disables the SLS (studio Loudspeakers), so you can leave the SLS switched on, and send the 2-track mix out there for them to listen to without having to come in to the control room. -We used to use Tannoy Lockwoods for SLS playback, and it was fantastic to be able to have them hear the control room monitor balance on speaker playback without having to trudge in and out. -Yet with a SINGLE button push, EVERYTHING was back in 'record' if the band wanted to rip down another take, without wasting any time. -Switching back to 'record' with a single finger stab used to put the multitrack back to sync, kill the SLS playback, switch all of the required tracks back to ready group, etc etc etc.
Then there was the other magic master status... "Record-in-Mix".
Here's a true story. -I'm in the SSL room, on a mix project. -We're three-quarters of the way through the mix when the singer decides that he wants to re-sing one of the lead vocal lines.
On the VR on which the project was recorded, that would have been a comparatively significant pain in the arse... but on the 4000E, it took me less than four seconds to:
Put the machine into sync, leave every channel in the console in record status apart from the vocal channel, give him a combined mix of his incoming vocal AND the return monitor (with instant changeover to machine-monitor ONLY
immediately on punch-in, and then switch
immediately back to 3dB-down combined blend on punch-out)... and allowed me to return to 'full-mix in repro' with a single button push. On the Neve, all of that was simply impossible.
It allowed me to concentrate ENTIRELY on matching the sound and getting in and out tidily, trusting in the producer to steer the performance. Switching in and out of record-in-mix mode allowed full-quality comparisons INSTANTLY.
I haven't thought about the session for simply ages, but this thread triggered the memory...
Here's a low-grade mono version of the track which I just found on YouTube, in case anyone wants to try and pick out which bit of the vocal was replaced!
Keith