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Hi All I don't know how and when the video tape was digitized. My customer gave me an 44.1/16 audio file to work with. And yes, it is music. I had tried reducing the highs, but that doesn't help much. Even though the spectrogram shows that the fade-outs reach down to 6 kHz, hearing can still detect the fades even though I lowpassed at 8 kHz. Anyway, I had a try with Izotope RX7. I zoomed into a fade-out in the spectrogram. Then used the Brush tool and adjusted it to the size that fits with the fade width. I "painted" manually with the Brush tool a "V-shaped" area to the fade-out trying to follow it's shapes. (Each fade-out is different to the others). Then, using the Deconstruct Tool, I enhanced the Tonal content by about +4 dB and the Noise content by about + 1,5 dB. Then, zoomed more in (because that's simpler than making the brush tool smaller in size , did the same procedure again and changed a bit the gains. Most fade-downs need 2-4 such rounds. It showed up that there isn't much tonal content left in the fade-outs to get it more audible. However, trying to smooth out the noise so that it would be about the same as it is on both sides of the fade-out makes it a bit better, as the noise fade-outs don't distract the ear as much as earlier. Doing this manually is pretty slow. It took me 1,5 hours to treat a 40 seconds section at the end of the recording, where the fading is at it's worst. I am not familiar with Izotope Ozone, but possibly I should give it a try. However, right now it might be a bit slow for me to to learn how to use a new tool. Eero