I’ve been wracking my brain trying to figure out how this magnetic pop filter knows which way “up” is and doesn’t just spin around the bar. Especially given the diagonal orientation of the microphone.
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While it would take more testing to speak with certainty, it is likely the geometry of the bar. The magnets are stuck to a curved bar, but they are not themselves curved. This means that they settle best on the bar where it is also flat – on the ‘top’ or ‘bottom’ of the bar where it does not curve towards or away from the magnets.
When the filter is tilted, the magnets are forced to move to a side of the bar that curves towards or away from them, ‘lifting’ them farther from the bar. The magnetic force pulling them back towards the bar causes them to settle back on the ‘flat’ side.
What happens if you flip the filter entirely backwards?
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