Fade (audio engineering)

Under a crossfader is defined as a " blender " as a variable resistor with a mixer, particularly with DJ mixers, with the one the two channels on which usually music playing in different voltage levels ( volume ) can put on the speakers.

By sliding the resistance, it is possible to run into each other on two pieces of music. If you slide the crossfader to a page that is heard on the speakers, only one channel. If you move it slowly to the other side, the previous channel is quieter and the other louder.

A special role is played by the crossfader when turntablism, one originating from the hip-hop musical discipline. Here, the cross fader is used in conjunction with record players to vary the located on the recorded music pieces artfully and mix again on sophisticated way. Experienced Turntablisten "play" on such a DJ set as a musical instrument.

The term crossfade is also used for a number of software or hardware solutions aimed at countering when listening to typical stereo recordings through headphones perceived as unnatural separation of the two channels. This usually frequency -dependent portions of a channel are slightly offset in time added each to the other channel, to approach something the head-related transfer functions ( HRTF ).