Recording and mixing screams and whispers.

If you were screaming then you can't listen! forget all the maths and numbers. It really doesn't matter about the mic's sensitivity, that is what the gain control is for - so if it was me, I'd simply have said scream your loudest and watched the meters, into the red? turn down the preamp until with the fader at your usual working level, the meters are not going over scale. Once you are not generating distortion from being over level - you can go up and down a little on the fader if you wish - just practice setting it - but it is always ear and eye together. This is why in live sound we hit our pfl button which brings the channel up on the input meters and people talk or even shout into the mic while we set the preamp gain. Once our red lights go out, we nudge down a little extra - people always do it for real louder - then we have our channel fader to bring it in our out to suit.
 
Okay thanks. I don't know if I have a pfl button, unless it's part of the programming you do beforehand, in my particular mixer.
 
On video kit it's not normally a feature you need. It only appears on multi channel mixers - the bigger and more expensive ones. with only one or two inputs you don't need it.
 
Oh okay. Since we are on the subject, I got a new pair of headphones, and I am noticing something on my audio that I have not noticed before. It is more noticeable on bigger speakers as well. There is a noise in the background. Not a location sound, but a sound that is present on multiple recordings, regardless of location. Kind of a faint ringing sound or shearing sound or something. Any idea what that could be? Is it possible to get rid of it, cause some of my actors have moved and I cannot get them to redo their lines. Or if I cannot erase it, is it possible to push it further into the background so it's not noticeable to the audience?
 
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