How do I turn the recorder daw OFF? I just want to play the guitar with the effects into my amp WITHOUT going through the recorder eq.
It's a little hard to parse exactly what you are after. If you want to turn off AmpliTube for a given track, use the Power button in the leftmost column next to where it says AmpliTube.
The second sentence makes me think you want to hear AmpliTube you just don't want to record anything, just don't hit the record button. When you say "eq" I'm lost. EQ is generally short for equalization but I don't believe the recorder does any equalization. Any EQ adjustment will be done by the AmpliTube chain you set up.
You can also avoid the 8-track recorder entirely and just use the Live or Looper modes of the AT5 host. I only have the macOS version of AT5 so things may be different on a different platform.