Topic: Cardioids, Omnis, and Wind Noise.

[fotoralf.be]

There's one aspect which is rarely mentioned and deserves more attention because it does make a difference:

While pressure transducers (omnis) can be used with foam windscreens which fit snugly all around the capsule, pressure gradient transducers work better if there is some free air space between the windscreen and the capsule.

One option with small-diameter front-address condersers  is not to push the foam windscreen all the way down and leave some space between the foam and the front grille of the mic. Still, this usually has the rear (or side) openings directly covered by the foam. This is why e.g. the original Neumann foam windscreens for their KM series are made of two different foam materials: the usual fine-cell stuff in the outside and a much coarser foam with larger air-cells on the inside. This volume of air inside the windscreen helps to correlate the low-frequency portion of the wind noise so it will not appear as a pressure difference across the mic's diaphragm.

Large-diaphragm condensers are less of a concern in this context because they already have a considerable air volume between the capsule and the grille.

Ralf

P.S.: I do hope this is more useful than my first contribution in this thread. ;-)