This just occurred to me the other day. Who did the first fade out on record? When? How did it become such a common song ender?
Pulling ideas out of my ass, I'm thinking maybe it was spun from DJs crossfading records on the radio. Or did some band vamp too long in the studio and almost run out of wax before a quick-thinking engineer pulled down the master volume?
Anybody know anything about this?
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 25 July 2008 03:35 (seventeen years ago)
There's some interesting speculations about that on this Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fade_(audio_engineering)
― moley, Friday, 25 July 2008 04:05 (seventeen years ago)
well, apparently we've run out of things to talk about
― jaxon, Friday, 25 July 2008 05:24 (seventeen years ago)
this: http://itsnotpossible.typepad.com/trashfan/visage1-tm.jpg
― yungblut, Friday, 25 July 2008 05:57 (seventeen years ago)
what was the first record with a hi-top fade?
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:07 (seventeen years ago)
;)
i'm on the fence w/ regard to the fade-out. obviously it works for pop but sometimes i wish they'd just come up with an ending. sometimes i get really sad listening to my music just trickle out of my life into nothingness. give me a last note, a bang, a finality.
― Surmounter, Friday, 25 July 2008 14:01 (seventeen years ago)
but what was the first record with a fade out on the 2nd track and it was about flowers? inquiring minds
― blunt, Friday, 25 July 2008 17:54 (seventeen years ago)
The answer, and other fade-out trivia, may be found here: 'Open The Door, Richard' by Jack McVea.
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:12 (fifteen years ago)