pop filter

noun

: a mesh screen that shields a microphone from bursts of air from a person's mouth during a recording session

I use a pop filter (to protect from plosives), and I record in a quiet room.

—Lex Friedman, Macworld, August 2011

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

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