Singers performing live never use a pop filter and it is never noticeably plosive – recording with a very good microphone still seems to require a pop filter. Why??

Question

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a stage performance where there’s a pop filter, but they’re extremely common in recording. I record myself with a pretty good microphone and the plosives can become fairly obvious without the filter. I also believe it’s not a thing that can easily be countered live by any soundboard wizardry. So how do they get around this live? Or maybe they don’t and we just don’t really notice?

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Answer 1

Most of the vocal microphones performers use have built-in pop and wind filters. From the Shure SM58 page:

‘A highly effective, built-in spherical filter minimizes wind and breath “pop” noise.’