Blend
Smoothly fading one track into another.
Detailed explanation
A blend (also called a crossfade or a mix) is the flowing transition from track A to track B, with both tracks running at the same time for a while. The channel fader of track B comes up slowly while track A is still playing. The length varies: 4–8 bars for quick transitions, 16–32 bars for atmospheric ones. It works best over the intro and outro, where few elements are playing at once.
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In practice
Two tracks run over each other for twenty seconds and nobody in the room can say exactly when one started and the other stopped. That is a successful blend. It needs tracks that stay out of each other's way: an outro without a vocal, an intro without bass. If a blend feels like a fight against the sound, it is almost always the selection and almost never your hand on the fader.
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