How to destroy and muffle the high end detail in one fell swoop. There’s a reason not a single mic is designed absolutely drowning in dense foam like this, unless it’s for outdoor application, and even then the hairy wind guards are usually better for that case. People have already complained quite a bit about the king bee’s stock pop filter muffling highs. This only exacerbates that. The metal filter isn’t “working” fully because you’re using it and the mic in a way that isn’t really intended. You don’t typically purposefully pound your plosive pecker-mouth right at a mic; angle it or your mouth as little as 3 degrees off to the side, use a regular pop filter for incidental plosives, and enjoy the natural crisp sound of not hollering through a couch cushion. But you do you. As long as it works and you’re happy with the sound, that’s all that matters. This particular solution seems a bit ill-advised to me.
If I used good mic teqnique and didn't pop the mic. Then in what way is that supposed to test the effectiveness of a pop filter? Yes the foam is a mess of thick fibers, but it is a lower density overall than the open cell foam typically used in microphones. Also, many microphones are built with similar foam, regardless. Beyond the dedicated pop-filters and aforementioned dead-cats, similar foam gets used internally, all the time. Electro-Voice RE20 is the first one that comes to mind. But If you think a single layer of thin barely-existent nylon is destroying your sound more than it's saving it, then what's your recording setup? Do you remove the heavy metal grille and raw dog the capsule?
Depending on where you live, these are sometimes called soda filters.
New subscriber who is already ordering the foam for his recently purchased NKB2 😂 (and using the zoom f3 as well)
You know it's good, when I can hear the difference on my cheap speakers. Maybe you should sell some custom filters $$$
Different does not equal good
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How to destroy and muffle the high end detail in one fell swoop. There’s a reason not a single mic is designed absolutely drowning in dense foam like this, unless it’s for outdoor application, and even then the hairy wind guards are usually better for that case.
People have already complained quite a bit about the king bee’s stock pop filter muffling highs. This only exacerbates that.
The metal filter isn’t “working” fully because you’re using it and the mic in a way that isn’t really intended. You don’t typically purposefully pound your plosive pecker-mouth right at a mic; angle it or your mouth as little as 3 degrees off to the side, use a regular pop filter for incidental plosives, and enjoy the natural crisp sound of not hollering through a couch cushion.
But you do you. As long as it works and you’re happy with the sound, that’s all that matters. This particular solution seems a bit ill-advised to me.
If I used good mic teqnique and didn't pop the mic. Then in what way is that supposed to test the effectiveness of a pop filter?
Yes the foam is a mess of thick fibers, but it is a lower density overall than the open cell foam typically used in microphones.
Also, many microphones are built with similar foam, regardless. Beyond the dedicated pop-filters and aforementioned dead-cats, similar foam gets used internally, all the time. Electro-Voice RE20 is the first one that comes to mind.
But If you think a single layer of thin barely-existent nylon is destroying your sound more than it's saving it, then what's your recording setup?
Do you remove the heavy metal grille and raw dog the capsule?