Mic Condoms, Any Good?

[Chienmortbb]

Or Foam Windshields. Do you use them or do you have a good reason not to use them? I have heard that the Shure ones are the best but are the others any good?

[Rosie C]

We use generic foam windshields with our Sennheisers - helps with wind noise when we play outdoors, possibly helps a bit with pop filtering. Also, they're colour-coded with matching cables and coloured tape on the amp. That makes it really easy for competent people who aren't familiar with our kit to help set up - red mic, red cable, red mixer channel.

 

[Chienmortbb]

Good ideas, the reason I asked is that I am about to host an Open Mic night and I want to reduce the amount of alien saliva reaching the microphones. The colour coding makes the case on its own. 
 

I cannot claim copyright on the term Mic Condom, a former band mate coined that term. 

[Stub Mandrel]

One rehearsal studio I go to puts disposable (what look like) little raffia bags over the mics.

[SimonK]

7 hours ago, Chienmortbb said:

Good ideas, the reason I asked is that I am about to host an Open Mic night and I want to reduce the amount of alien saliva reaching the microphones. The colour coding makes the case on its own. 
 

I cannot claim copyright on the term Mic Condom, a former band mate coined that term. 

 

Reminds me of when we used to do a layer of sacrificial icing on the kids birthday cakes to fend off the spit that came with blowing out candles!

 

I like them for outdoor use, and also if (as you say) people of unknown origin are going to use them!

[Chienmortbb]

I did use them at Open Mic and they were fine. When I say fine, I mean they kept my mics clean without any detriment to the sound.