My diy silk wind screen

[Leigh Wanstead]

Hello everyone,

Thanks for the great website. I thought that I should contribute something back to the community. 

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.
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
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=400803&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

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 is the video. The file size is around 47mb and is encoded as wmv file.
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Enjoy ;-)

Regards
Leigh

[Leigh Wanstead]

In case someone want to see the detail photo.

Here are some diy wind screen photos I took today.

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Regards
Leigh