The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast Klover Products CEO Paul Terpstra at NAB Show 2019 Booth Interview

Episode Date: April 11, 2019

Klover Products CEO Paul Terpstra at NAB Show 2019 Booth Interview

Hi, I'm Moses Voss here from theecrossvossshow.com. Coming here with another great booth interview that we're doing at NAB 2019. We are at Clover Products booth and I'm here with Paul the CEO. How you doing Paul? Good. Good, good. You have a good show so far? Yeah, it's been good. Good, good. Now you guys make these really cool things. The only way I'm familiar with them is I see them at different NFL shows. These big parabolic I guess microphones is that what they are well we actually make the parabolic collector okay you put a microphone inside the dish it's called a parabolic mic it's

kind of a misnomer but that's what sticks the parabolic mic in the parabolic dish yes so this is pretty cool you make three different versions of this and as we pan around your booth we can see some of the boom ones that you have. You've got this interesting rig over here. So tell me more about your guys's company what you guys do and how you do it. Okay well we basically started out when Fox Sports went looking for a better parabolic dish because a lot of the products that were out there, really the only product that was out there for almost 20 years, was not a true parabolic shape. So the audio was very muffled or garbled, if you will, and the range was greatly reduced.

So they went out looking for someone that would make a true parabolic dish for their football program and through a series of interesting stories we ended up being selected for that we built a prototype in 2011 and formed the company and provided those dishes to Fox in the beginning of 2012 that's awesome man so people can get them on there just their little DSLRs and use them for different things. Well not this size obviously. Sure yeah. This is what is used for football all football that's on Fox. College and NFL will be using this product. Wow that's pretty awesome. And then we actually

found that this new product had too much range for baseball. At Kansas City we were 40 feet behind home plate and picking up the waterfalls in the outfield. Holy crap. So we came up with a 16-inch version, which you see back here. Okay. That's used for baseball primarily. A number of stadiums now in the United States are using our dishes. Citi Field in New York City has 11 of them in their stadium, permanently

mounted. They just leave them there for the entire season. So basically these are designed to really help capture sound and is it more pinpointing sound or is it more broad sound? Well it's a tighter pattern than a shotgun. We typically have about a conical pickup pattern of about 15 degrees off center compared to a shotgun which may be 45 or even more off center. A pickup pattern for a shotgun is not nearly as concentrated as most people think. So with the large unit, we say, typically we say that can have pick up people or pick up a conversation from five or six hundred feet in a quiet environment Wow the 16

inch unit back here pick up a conversation from 250 to 300 feet that's where inside a basic baseball stadium it works much better so if I want to you know take this big dish with me out to a restaurant to see if people are talking about me in the restaurant I can do that yeah you could do that you get a lot of looks I'll guarantee you I'm sure people would be talking about me at that point right yeah so you got some really cool you're doing and you got this hell of a rig holy crap look at this thing and you've got the try our shotgun showdown So when you come to the booth, you can check out this hella shotgun Grudge match

Fight whatever. It's crazy. What's going on all the wires you got going on here, right? It's quite an octopus This rig lets us do a very quick side-by-side comparison between a variety of shotgun mics. We have all the way from a $80 video mic go to a video mic pro to a Rode NTG-1 Audio-Technica 8035 and a Sennheiser ME67 and then of course our 9 inch parabolic. As you go down the row the the pickup pattern gets tighter and tighter. So in the noisy environment of the convention hall, your voice gets more and more pronounced

as you go down the line from one microphone to the next. This is probably a perfect place with the background noise, you know, just to pick up the pinpoints and stuff that you need to do. It definitely demonstrates focusing on the speaker and ignoring the ambient, which is really what a Parabolic shines at. Definitely awesome.

So if you come by the booth during Intubate 2019, you can check out this system they have, put the headphones on, see how it compares, and get some exposure to the product. Yeah, anything more we need to know? Well, with the 9-inch, we're basically trying to convince people or show people this week that anywhere you use a shotgun, you can use our parabolic. If it's on top of your camera, on a boom pole like we are showing here, you can use the parabolic instead of a shotgun,

get more reach and more focus. So with a boom pole for example you can be six or eight feet above your speaker instead of foot and a half. So you can have a much wider shot, you have more flexibility in your setup. They're also great in situations like a classroom where you're streaming a class. It's easy to mic up the professor but it's hard to get the comments from the students. With a couple of these along the wall or hanging from the ceiling, you can get all the questions from the students and now your audience online can hear all those comments and questions.

Makes it much more interesting and valuable to them. So I'm friends with a lot of podcasters, a lot of YouTube people. This is probably great for them, for the small units, to be able to use on DSLR right or is it boom or whatever in fact tell I should probably be using one for the show and it's probably good for content makers right yes it's used for a lot of different purposes it's great for interviews run-and-gun interviews because you can just put it on your camera. You start talking. You don't have to wire people up.

You don't have to give them a hand mic to hold. So it's very useful in those situations. Awesome sauce. Awesome sauce. So where can we find you guys on the interwebs? CloverProducts, K-L-O-V-E-R, products.com. Okay. And we do have a special this week for your audience if they go out to our website.

Okay, so they just go to the website, say they saw Chris Voss or whatever? It's on our website. Okay, so there's a special on there, go on there, look around, take advantage of it and all that good stuff. I think if you're a content creator, definitely having good sound makes a difference, so be sure to check them out. And thanks, guys guys for coming by come to the central booth 7706 in Central Hall and check these guys out and all the cool stuff they're doing thanks Paul thank you all right