US Patent 7496208 Wind shield and microphone

A pop reduction filter can be properly replaced with a simple operation according to the use of a microphone. A wind shield including a shield body 20 made of an open-cell foam with a microphone insertion hole 30, the wind shield being directly put on a microphone M through the microphone insertion hole 30, the wind shield including a disk-like pop filter 40 detachably housed in the microphone insertion hole 30 so as to be orthogonal to the 0-degree direction sound pickup axis of the microphone M, the pop filter 40 being made of an open-cell foam different in foam density from the open-cell foam of the shield body 20.