How to Choose the Best Pop Filter for YOU -- Tips from a Professional Voiceover Artist

Tips and tricks for hunting down the best pop filter to use for your home voiceover studio.
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[@donnelson8524]

Thanks for keeping the great content going! Yep, you nailed it based on my limited experiments. I find the clown nose types to be a bit too deadening on my mic, but my voice is pretty dark to begin with. As for the disk ones, I try to go without if I can, but sometimes what I'm reading just makes me a bit more... animated :-) and in those cases I find I'm getting all plosive-y and go for a pop filter. I like the smallest one I can get away with for the reasons you mentioned: less stuff in my field of vision. I've found that the Stedman (like you have there) works really well and I love that I can see through it, but if my breath hits it >just right< it can get a bit whistle-y. I now use a Hakan P110 now which is >comically< overpriced but it is sort of the best of both worlds: it's very transparent like the Stedman but doesn't whistle, AND it's very small-so small it fits between the elastics of my shock mount so it hardly adds any size to the mic visually. Thing is: I've seen other folks test various materials and realized that Hakan uses a particular density of what is basically aquarium foam. So... if you have some aquarium foam lying around it might be cool to see if that does the trick if you have a method to keep it in front of your mic! I've seen some folks cut out the nylon of a cheap pop filter and squeeze in a circle of aquarium foam.
To be fair to Hakan, I'm sure they spent a great deal of time testing and finding the best combination of density, thickness, etc., for the foam and designing a small and simple way to mount it, so I don't begrudge them selling their solution for a hefty price.

[@jaymyersvoiceover]

Thanks for the kind words, and the detailed breakdown--very interesting to hear. :)

[@RaymmanVO]

Nice edit, thumbs up from me.

[@jaymyersvoiceover]

Thanks as always Ray!