My diy silk windscreen for the cost 0 dollar

Hello everyone,

Here is my diy silk wind screen. It cost me zero money.
I am very happy that I can get same configuration as 007 movie windscreen setup which I heard of. I guess that silk won't cut high frequency sound which thick fake fur will do cut high frequency sound. I also found that the trick to further the benefit of using silk is to use some slightly heavy material hanging on the silk to stop silk free moving. I think if I allow silk to free move, the defence against the wind might greatly reduced. The time I spent on this tiny project is around 8 minutes. That is a free bargain.

Here is what I did.
I attached two wooden stick to Rode-SM3 On-Camera Shockmount for Shotgun Mics and sew silk cloth from my 10 years old T-shirt to hang on the microphone. The microphone has the default foam on. The shockmount was attached to my diy microphone stand which is pretty stable. The microphone point around 45 degree downward which is the best configuration I have known of.

Here is my diy silk windscreen test.

Here is the test configuration
jvc gy-dv5000 minidv camera
Audio-Technica AT4073 kit
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I can't find big wind as the day was not so windy. Pretty sad

The jvc gy-dv5000 with AT4073 seems very sensitive to the level. I have to lower the level setting way down to get good sound.

Sorry about the not so professional appearing in my film. I am not used to stand in front of the camera.
In the last 20 months, I was always behind the camera.

Here are the photos.

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Here is the video. The file size is around 47mb and is encoded as wmv file.
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I made a test video to compare the performance of silk windscreen against no windscreen, foam, foam with silk windscreen combination using a desk fan.

The test configuration is still the same as listed in my previous post.

The video file is around 60mb encoded with wmv format.

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Tell me what do you think.

Regards
Leigh

thats cool, I take it your big into filming, what exactly do you plan on useing it for? or just general noise cancelling?

Hi drumz0rz,

Thanks

I manufacture stabilizer for minidv camera and I plan to use this diy windscreen in my demo video to assist me to use my shotgun outside.

I did not do much research on any microphone before I purchased my dear microphone. I regret about that behaviour. I just heard that the shotgun I bought is best money for quality in online forum. Later I realized that I need to get more accessory i.e. windscreen to make it more useful outside. Someone suggested me to buy a quality brand windscreen. I am relucant to pay money $600 from bhphoto again. As shipping will take another week. I prefer something quick and good quality and inexpensive. So I read hundreds of post regarding to the windscreen and some patent paper to study. After endless research, I think that I should do something simple. That is what you saw in my video. So to me, there is a hidden cost. That is the time I spent in research which I did not count. But that is the fun part. I love to do my own research and be creative and be original. I don't want to copy others design.

Regards
Leigh