Made my own Microphone Pop Filter

First of all, what’s a pop filter? Well, it’s some kind of drug filter or a ganja filter.

Okay, I was just joking. A pop filter is used for eliminating the plosive words like ‘porcupine’ or ‘blooming bimbo banisher’ to name a few. Have you tried plugging a mic to your PC or radio and start singing or recording? If you you noticed, there will be that slightly ‘boop’ kind of sound that will be very obvious when you sing close to your mic.

I have been wanting this little fella since I do make some recordings at home and it has really been hard trying to sing sideways on the mic especially when you need to go real close at times. I’m not sure how much this gonna cost here in KL nor do I know where to get one. After reading one of my favourite home recording blog, I finally made my own homemade pop filter that doesn’t cost like a couple of diamond rings!

Well first of all I needed some ’skin stockings’. Since wife don’t use them, I almost took my bosses’ one but I decided to buy them and see how much I had to spend on this little project. I went to the local mall and found all the things I needed in one place.

1. Skin Stockings
2. Some sort of holder like a hanger
3. A hoop thing. (I bought an embroidery hoop or ring)
4. Some clamp / tightener (normally for tightening hoses on pipes)
5. A zip type plastic string (I have this at home already)

Total expenditure= I threw the bills but it’s below $30 I think.

I can’t explain how I did it but once you get your hands on those stuff, you are allowed to be as creative as you can be..and yeah, the hoop was rather large. That’s the only one they have at the time.

Mine was rather crude. Perhaps you could do a better design than mine.

Source of idea: hometracked.com

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