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Fader
Another name for variable attenuator, volume control, or potentiometer (see WFTD archive Potentiometer). A fader works just like a standard potentiometer, only instead of rotating, it slides along a straight path. Faders are most commonly used on mixing boards and graphic equalizers, where it is nice to have both an easy way to move the level up and down, and to provide a sort of graphic representation of the relative levels of many channels (or frequencies in the case of an EQ). Faders have also historically been used on some synthesizers as controllers for various parameters. The name comes from the phrase "fade out." Once faders came into existence it became much easier for an engineer to do a smooth fade out.

F-Hole

F-spacing

Factory Preset

Fadeout

Fader

Fairlight CMI

Falsetto

Fan-out

Fan Strutting

FAQ

Farad

Faraday Shield (or Faraday Cage)

Far Field

FAT

Fat-32

FDDI

Feathering

Feedback

Feedback Compressor

Feedback Eliminator

Fender "Woodies"

Fender Blender

Ferrite

Ferro Fluid

Ferrule

Field Effect Transistor (FET)

Fibre Channel

Fidelity

Field

Field Coil

Field Coil

FIFO

Figure/Figuring

Figure 8

Figured Koa

Filament

File

Filter

Filter Slope

FilterTron

Finale

Finalize

Finder

Fingerboard

Fingerstyle

FireWire

FireWire 800

Fir Filter

Firmware

First Wavefront Law

Fixed Bias

 Fixed Point

Flam

Flame Maple

Flamenco

Flange/Flanging

Flash

Flash Drive

Flash Frame

Flat

Flat-picking

Flat Response

Flat Sawn

Flat Top Guitar

Flatwound

Fleck

Fletcher-Munson Curves

Flick Action Console

Flitch-Matching

Float/Floating

Floating Bridge

Floating Pickup

Floating Point

Floating Sound Unit

Floating Unbalanced Line

Floating Vibrato

Floppy Disk

Florentine Cutaway

Flutter

Flutter Echo

Flux

Fly

Frequency Modulation (FM)

FM Synthesis

FOH

Foil Shield

Fold-Down

Foldback

Folder

Foley

Fool

Footswitch

Formant

Format

Formatted Capacity

Former

Fortepiano

Forward-shifted Bracing

Forward/Reverse Bias

Found Sound

Four-on-the-Floor

Fourier Analysis

 FPU

Fractal

Fragmentation

Frame

Frame Count

Frame Rate

Free Field

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

FreeMIDI

Free Reed

Free Reed

Freeware

Freeze

Frequency

Frequency Agile

Frequency Doubling

Frequency Response / Frequency Range

Frequensator

Fret

Fretboard

Fret Buzz

Fret Crown

Fret Dress

Fretless Wonder

Fret Tang

Frondose

Front Address

Front Loaded

Fs

FSB

FSF (Free Software Foundation)

FSK

FTP

Full Code

Full Duplex

Full Normal

Full Range

Full Scale

Full Space

Full Track

FUN

Function Generator

Fundamental

Funky Drummer

Fuse

Fusion

Fusion Zone

Futurama

Fuzz

Fuzz Face

     
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