I was working on a commercial project yesterday in SPLAT...2 60 second spots and 2 30 second spots.  After getting them finished I, as per usual, exported them out to a folder on the desktop.  Before sending them off to the client I listened through to each of them.  Oddly, they all had a "fade in" at the beginning that was quite pronounced.  I deleted them and opened SPLAT back up and checked every track and found no fades of any kind.  Exported them again...but the fade ins were there again.  This told me that the fade in must be on the master buss.  So I checked all the plugins and the buss and no fade to be found.  Finally solved the problem by moving all tracks to start about 3 seconds late.  Exported and fades gone.  Then I had to trim up the beginnings in Sound Forge.  Tedious and worrisome.  
 
Anybody have an idea what I might have done to cause this "fade in" weirdness??
 

Y'all using the adaptive limiter? It had that issue if I recall correctly what I have read here.
There is an update for the adaptive limiter in a sticky thread up top.
 
 

Yup...that probably explains it.  Was definitely using it on that project on the master buss.
 
Thanks, ol pal!!
 

Love your yellow afro my old pal. 

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Love your yellow afro my old pal. 

It's a sombrero yo!

I always thought that was a sombrero.