cheap mic filter ?

Hi Guys
First time poster long time lurker

I usually fix my problems by sifting through the threads here
but this time I can't seem to find any one as stupid as I was

I am shoting a pilot for a show I am putting together and I work for a camera
hire company so usally quality epuipment is my issue
but ...... the other weekend I was in a hurry and grabed a cheap mic
on my way out and now I am paying for it ....... it sounds like
the presenter has two cups and a string between

there is poping when ever she says a b or p word and there is a sort of echo

what can I do to fix it as I can't reshoot it

Thx in advance

Jay

You can suppress the popping with a low cut filter (Graphic Equalizer--drop everything below 100 Hz) . That's essentially what the ElectroVoice low cut mic filter does, and then going in and editing out or dropping the level on each pop.

You can't get rid of the echoes. That's one of the deadly sins.

Koz

"what can I do to fix it? "

You can't.

But Sound Soap will help bring it back from unusable to just extreamly bothersome.

Ian

Kaboom!

ADR time.

Even a cheap mike shouldn't produce the symptoms you're talking about. Are you sure your microphone wasn't running out of juice? Or that your levels weren't blowing into the red in the field?

We make some really good use of some dirt cheap mics around our place.

Is it possible that the user routinely violates a bunch of microphone usage rules and is baled out every time by an expensive microphone?

Would something like that have been audible on headphones right at the beginning?

Koz