> Compression by itself might make the pops worse by reducing the peak > levels of proper vocals, unless the pops peak louder than the vocals. The latter is my experience, as they tend to be worst when the vocalist gets too close. I've recently bought a proper pop filter for vocals from studiospares.com, and this seems to do the job. If anything it keeps the vocalist too far away from the mic to get the 'close-up' sound that I was after... Cheers Daniel