Whether you record voice audio using the $5 Labtec microphone that shipped with your PC or a classic Neumann U67, protecting your vocal tracks from plosive bursts of ‘P’ and ‘B’ sounds can be the difference from using a raw track with no editing and spending hours cleaning out vocal pops from an otherwise perfect track. The easiest way to deal with those bombastic vocal pops is to prevent them with a pop screen. You can buy a pop screen from the local music store for somewhere between $20-30 or you can build one for about $7.50 using parts readily available at craft and hardware stores. Cheaper if you’ve got some of the parts already available. Improve podcast vocal recordings. Make video narrations sound cleaner and generally stop popping your P and B sounds on the microphone by building your own pop screen.