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Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. | In audio engineering, a fade is a gradual increase or decrease in the level of an audio signal.[1] Image File history File links Question_book-3. ...
Audio engineering is a part of audio science dealing with the recording and reproduction of sound through mechanical and electronic means. ...
An audio signal is a representation of sound waves in a different form. ...
A recorded song may be gradually reduced to silence at its end (fade-out), or may gradually increase from silence at the beginning (fade-in) For example, the songs "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf and "Hey Jude" by The Beatles both fade out. However, "Born to be Wild" fades out in a matter of seconds, whereas "Hey Jude" takes over 2 minutes to completely fade out. Fading-out can serve as a recording solution for pieces of music that contain no obvious ending. Historical records of events have been made for thousands of years in one form or another. ...
For other uses, see Song (disambiguation). ...
Born to Be Wild is a rock song written by Mars Bonfire. ...
Steppenwolf is a rock band that helped establish heavy metal music in the late 1960s along with bands like Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly. ...
For the album of the same name, see Hey Jude (album). ...
The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
The term fade is also used in multi-speaker audio systems to describe the balancing of power between front and rear channels.
Fader
A fader is any device used for fading, especially when it is a knob or button that slides along a track or slot. A knob which rotates is usually not considered a fader, although it is electrically and functionally equivalent. A fader can be either analogue, directly controlling the resistance or impedance to the source(e.g. a Potentiometer); or digital, numerically controlling a digital signal processor (DSP). An analog or analogue signal is any time continuous signal where some time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity. ...
Electrical resistance is a measure of the degree to which an electrical component opposes the passage of current. ...
Electrical impedance, or simply impedance, is a measure of opposition to a sinusoidal alternating electric current. ...
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For other uses, see Digital (disambiguation). ...
A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time. ...
Crossfader A crossfader essentially functions like two faders connected side-by-side, but in opposite directions. It allows a DJ to fade one source out while fading another source in at the same time. This is extremely useful when beatmatching two phonograph records or compact discs. For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...
Beatmatching is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track. ...
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CD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD. Image of a compact disc (pencil included for scale) A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...
There are many software applications that feature virtual crossfaders. For instance, burning-software for the recording of audio-cds. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
In computing, optical disc authoring, including CD authoring and DVD authoring, known often as burning, is the process of recording source material—video, audio or other data—onto an optical disc (compact disc or DVD). ...
CD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD. Image of a compact disc (pencil included for scale) A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...
References - ^ Nisbett, Alec (1966). The Technique of the sound studio. Focal Press.
- Middleton, Richard (1990/2002). Studying Popular Music, p.95-6. Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN 0-335-15275-9.
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