Unless you live in an environment with loads of dust or small particles, then I'd leave well alone. Any dust that does land on it will lay on the surface, so you could simply vacuum it off. I've never covered a mic in 40 years! I never put anything away unless there's danger of physical damage.
There's more danger from the slimy film that vape devices seem to leave on everything because the people puff on them like barbecues. As for the electrostatically charged capsule sucking in particles - Before the ban, some very expensive mics were put in front of chain smoking people for a very long time. Sure - the charged capsule could well attract some contaminants, but I'm going to duck and run on this one, because frankly - I believe it to be hogwash. Sure - the physics says it can happen, but I cannot say that I've ever heard of any microphone being damaged by sucking in contaminated its and then catalysing fog! I'm perfectly content to change my mind when there is some proper evidence, but I shall file it away with the other doom and gloom stories built on flawed physics.The main idea of the bag over the capsule is that of a physical barrier- to prevent the electrostatically attractive capsule from sucking in particles from as far as six feet away, and letting these contaminants act like salt crystals which catalyze fog formation
Unless you live in an environment with loads of dust or small particles, then I'd leave well alone. Any dust that does land on it will lay on the surface, so you could simply vacuum it off. I've never covered a mic in 40 years! I never put anything away unless there's danger of physical damage.
I just wanted to be sure it was not a big no no after singing. I don't smoke anymore and my pop filter is far enough away that I doubt much vapor from my breath gets in there.
Too Funny!!!!
2 of your shiniest Shure SM58s on straight weighted base stands with at least 10m of cable. One is to be set downstage centre. The other is to be set offstage left and will serve as a backup (please give the mics a sniff, if they smell like 100 people’s dried saliva, please take out the sponge form the head and wash it prior to our arrival).