My diy silk windscreen for the cost 0 dollar

Leigh Wanstead

Active member
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
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/con...803&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.
Click here

Enjoy :)

Regards
Leigh
 
Thanks

If I have more people, I think all the shot will be moving shot plus lots of 20x zoom shot. But I am just one man band. I am learning to be a director.

Regards
Leigh
 
Well... the web address given at the end didn't work for me... and that's a shame because I wanted to watch more of those videos all day.
 
Sorry about that, I don't know why. It seems that I can access the video file fine.

Regards
Leigh

MattinSTL said:
Well... the web address given at the end didn't work for me... and that's a shame because I wanted to watch more of those videos all day.
 
MattinSTL said:
Well... the web address given at the end didn't work for me... and that's a shame because I wanted to watch more of those videos all day.

I hosted these files on other domain too. Can you see following url links?

Regards
Leigh

Click here

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I am definitely digging it. This has been one of the more satisfying discoveries I've had in a while.

Glad to have you aboard Leigh.:thumbsup:
 
Thanks everyone for the praise.

I am in the process of getting myself more artistic. I have been programming for the last 12 years for 8 hours per day. I want to be an artist. :)

Regards
Leigh
 
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.

Click here

If you can't access through www.smootharm.com website, you might try the following url link.

Click here

Tell me what do you think.

Regards
Leigh
 
Cool video Leigh. If you added two more wooden sticks on the bottom of the mount then you could secure the shirt tighter with some rubber bands instead of it hanging and flapping.

Good luck
 
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