How to un-fade a pre-existing fade in a track

[HorseAftertheCart]

I want to undo a 30 second pre-existing fade-out in a track. I’ve read about fade-in and fade-out effects but I don’t think that is going to help me after some experimentation. I’ve tried the compression effect and it “normalized” 15 seconds of the fade-out, but the entire track was a little loud. I am also concerned if I alter the track too much I might have unexpected results in a video playback situation.

Thanks

[Trebor]

Reversing Fade In

Probably easier to use than the Envelope tool is the “Adjustable Fade” effect: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/adjustable_fade.html You may want to then tweak the result with the Envelope tool: [reverse-fade.gif] Note that absolute silence cannot be amplified (no matter how much it is amplified it will remain silent). Also, very quiet audio is likely to contain a high proportion of noise, and will require a high amount of amplification to to bring the level up (hence the non-linear -95% …