Volume at constant level

[djglenn]

I'm working on a project for a company I work for. It's a pretty big one money-wise, so I want to give them the best possible end-product. The project is simply voiceover work for esl (English as a Second Language). They use me for most of their voiceovers, but usually at a local studio. Since my home "studio" is more than adequate for the job, they opted to let me record at home for half the price of a normal studio. Everything is working fine so far. I managed to construct a box similar to this one: http://www.harlanhogan.com/portaboothArticle.shtml to get past the horrible acoustics in the room. It sounds surprisingly good, all things considered.

To the question...

For the part I'm working on now, I've got over 400 sentence/word combinations. I'm pretty good at mic control, but from time to time, one sentence/word will be louder/quieter than the rest. What would be the best way to go about putting everything at a constant level? Everything's already been compressed before recording (using a Studio Vocal preset in the Line 6 Gearbox software, which btw is a pretty nice little program....check it out)

This is probably a simple question....but figured I'd ask before trying what I think I should do.

Thanks

[admin]

For that I'd normally do editing of single words etc..depends how much they change but would probably not want to rely on too much compression. So maybe a balance of both as obviously it might be very tedious to do it all manually, but sometimes that's what it takes.

This reminds me of one of my first ever audio gigs way back years ago for a radio spot I did. Didn't have a DAT recorder or digital audio back then so just sampled our phrases into an Akai S1000 and then sequenced the words using midi from the atari. Whole thing went down to tape cassette in the end. Pretty rough but it worked.