The Fader Fort features 40 bands and 12 DJs over the course of four days.

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Post-fader: the effects are applied to the sound after the fader, allowing the sound to fade out naturally rather than stopping suddenly when the DJ cuts the source audio with the faders.

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Then, there's The Vader Fader.

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Our favorite comes at the very bottom of the "Vader Fader" page.

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The SCS.1 solves this with a servo-controlled fader, which seems like a lot of effort to go to just to keep it matched -- but hey, it works.

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The emphasis, of course, is on performance here with nary a rotary nor fader in sight (we imagine you'd be using your other controller for that, right?).

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"Scrabulous has created value for the product in a way Hasbro would have never thought of doing, " says Wharton's Fader.

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