Simple Microphone Pop-Filter

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This is a simple pop-filter for your microphone. This is the "thing" you put between the mic and your mouth. It's used for making the chaotic air flow from your mouth into a linear flow which will hit the membrane of the mic more gently which will result in better sound quality of the audio. I've printed mine with natural color PLA, 50% infill and 0.3mm layer height. Unfortunately for me - I didn't made the options of the G-code as they should be and this result that I couldn't put the nuts in their traps. Still working though...I just had to use longer screws. So be carefull about that! The screws are 2 pcs x M3x14 with nylon nuts (for the cable clamp, explained below) and 1 pcs x M3x20 with normal nut (M3x25 with nylon nut if you couldn't put the normal nut into it's nut-trap). As a membrane I've cutted an old sock and put it between the two circles. You'll have great results with women's sock (in 2 layers) cutted to shape, as well. Just make sure you stretch the sock as much as possible. To hold the pop-filter to your mic's frame - use a plumbing clamp or a zip-tie (or even a duct-tape) and a large AWG cable or some sort of a stick. The 3D printed part have a clamp to hold the cable/stick to the pop-filter. Update: Based on the things I noticed due my build, I have made some changes to the 3D model of the pop-filter. It's called "PopFilter-110mm-Improved" and it has larger screw holes, larger nut-traps, smaller inner diameter of the outer ring (the clamping circle) to make the things a little bit tighter and also made an oval hole for the screw when the M3 nut-trap is (to make the assembly a little bit easier). The real pictures you see here are from the original basic version (PopFilter.stl), both are working. Cheers! Pictures update #2: As you can see, I've mounted my pop-filter with a piece of a clothes hanger (the metallic wire one) to the filter on one side and with big zip-ties to the frame of my microphone tripod. :) Print Settings Rafts: No Supports: No Resolution: 0.3mm Infill: 50%