This is a pop filter designed to work in any position from the stand to in front of a mic, but the designers made one genius, simple move - attach the pop screen with a standard microphone thread! You can put a mic clip on it and then this becomes the most flexible, adaptable mic mount you've ever had. The base clamps tightly and the ball joints reach anywhere. The pop screen itself is effective and has good coverage. Even better this is well made and it holds tight without slipping, and better still, it's cheap! You can even add or remove sections from it, or combine it with pieces from another unit and extend it. I've never seen anything in audio that was so clever, so useful and so cheap. Look at the price, you expect it to be flimsy but it'll hold a mic without sagging, it works and it'll last for years. I use it at home for recording and at my gigs all the time, love it. I'm never putting a hi-hat mic on a stand again, this is better. You can mic up all sorts of instruments and percussion with this, oh and it's great as a pop filter too!