fader
Americannoun
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a person or thing that fades.
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Movies, Broadcasting, Recording. a multiple-unit volume control used in changing gradually from one signal source to another, decreasing the volume from the first audio or visual source while increasing the volume from the second.
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Origin of fader
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“Everybody literally had their fingers on a fader at one point,” he adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
About 10,000 hours on air and 3,500 shows later, DJ Ace is turning the fader down on his 1Xtra microphone.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
Indeed, had the big reveal been "I am your fader" it would have made a nice play on the heavy-breathing villain's name with a nod to an old Dutch term for "father."
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2022
Amazon, we know time is money, but mind easing off the fader a bit?
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2019
She answered, in sweet childish accents, 'I am Frida Heinz, and fader and I were walking through this big, big Forest, and by-and-by are going to see England, where mother used to live long ago.'
From Little Frida A Tale of the Black Forest by Anonymous
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