Stands that hold up our speakers, microphones, guitars and more are a utility device that can easily be taken for granted. After all, if there are enough to get the session or gig done, most engineers will use whatever is available without a second thought.
That is until they encounter that nightmare session where microphone stands are moving, slipping, falling, or simply not capable of doing what you need them to do for the duration of your time in the studio. Even a millimetre of movement can throw your carefully phase aligned mics out of whack. What’s more, treating a room for acoustic perfection is all good and well until the stands supporting your monitors move, shift or worse—break!
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And for all of us who do know, there is Triad-Orbit. Triad-Orbit have endeavoured to develop a new industry standard in advanced stand technology. After extensive research and field testing, 2013 saw the debut of four core product groups. These included Triad articulating tripod stands, Orbit orbital booms, Micro orbital adaptors and more recently, the Precision by Triad-Orbit.
Triad-Orbit incorporates a plethora of innovative design choices to make life easy regardless of whether you are working amidst the chaos of the live stage, or within the confines of the recording studio. So it’s no wonder that Triad-Orbit has been crowned the official stand of the Berklee College of Music!
Incorporating Triad-Orbit into your studio or venue will greatly reduce your physical footprint and save floor space, cut down on the number of stands required to complete the task at hand, and improve your current workflow considerably. If all of this wasn’t enough, all products in the Triad-Orbit line are multi-disciplinary. One of the key features of almost all Triad-Orbit products is the utilisation of patented Quick Change iO Couplers. Superior to standardised quick-release couplers, Triad-Orbit’s iO Couplers enable the user to switch out a microphone in mere seconds.
Many of Triad-Orbit’s products are modular, allowing you to save space with a single base and additional arms reach to securely hold your equipment; be it a mic, guitar iPad or otherwise! Additionally, they are also capable of supporting more weight than a standardised coupler, ensuring that your microphone position won’t be slipping throughout a session, no matter how long you need it, or how precarious the mic might be positioned!
Floor space aside, Triad-Orbit offer a range of mic stands designed to be wall or ceiling mounted, alleviating the need for floor space at all! Mics placed on walls and ceiling can offer newfound access to room ambience and overhead placement, both reducing clutter and adding sheen, impact and space to your recordings. All of these are compatible with the aforementioned Quick Change iO Couplers to mount just about anything just about anywhere!
Heavy-duty joints and swivelling locks provide rock-solid performance whilst industrial-grade clutches ensure adequate adjustments across any length. The genius of Triad-Orbit is only further accentuated by the vast range of iO components on offer. From mounts for laptops, cameras, and other devices, the fantastic iO Stereo Vector Bar is designed for multi-mic applications, and handy iO Clamp and Wall Plates. Triad-Orbit have gone above and beyond when it comes to practical stand applications.
Triad-Orbits handy quick change couplers give you the ability to swap out or add any microphone in seconds whilst the OM single-arm orbital boom offers new plateaus in on-the-fly mic placement. One mic stand and two boom arms provide all the placement options you need taking the hassle out of overheads, or use a boom to mic both the top and bottom of your snare with ease!
Covering the fundamentals of any drum with a single stand, the foundations of the range can be found firmly rooted in the Triad T1 short stand. The T1 efficiently places the Orbit 2/O2 dual orbital boom in reach of rack toms while the 3 included 2/M2 mic adapters cover the task of proper placement on toms and kick.
From snare top and bottom, multi-micing guitar cabs, and even acoustic guitars, Triad-Orbit
has you covered when it comes to a single-stand solution for dual microphone placement. With two signature telescopic boom arms, the orbital O2XY offers unparalleled flexibility when it comes to spacing your microphones out as required.
Precision by Triad-Orbit
Possibly most exciting of all are Triad-Orbit’s Precision by Triad-Orbit’s range of monitor mounting solutions. Immersive Audio and Dolby Atmos on the horizon and it’s becoming more and more common for studios and engineers to be delivering, it’s becoming more and more essential to mount speakers to walls and ceilings to elevate stereo systems to 7.1.4, 9.1.4 and beyond! How best to mount your valuable monitors to precarious places? Well, Triad-Orbit has you sorted there too with their Precision by Triad-Orbit range of speaker stands.
The Precision by Triad-Orbit speaker stands are available in either the SW1 Cohesive System, rated for monitors up to 100lbs, while the smaller UM1 Standalone Swivel is rated for up to 25lbs. The most exciting part of the Precision by Triad-Orbit range is how modular it is, with brackets and speaker mounting options & installation guides depending on your preference or number of monitors!
The SW1 itself is part of a bigger system, requiring a bracket to be mounted to your monitor, and with an unbelievably stable locking system with a locking pin to lock (at measured increments) your Pan & Tilt preferences. The UM1 works as a standalone mounting solution, working with most speakers, with a Hirth joint that secures the tilt of your monitor, while a friction joint locks your pan (left to right) position
The Precision by Triad-Orbit range extends beyond just monitors, with a range of microphone stands that are just as modular, robust as the rest of the range, and priced to remain accessible to studios, engineers and musicians. Featuring rolled steel edges and a high-quality swivel mechanism, they can be relied on for year after year, session after session. A Triad-Orbit IO-RA adapter is included in the stand package, giving you access to a huge range of Triad-Orbit Accessories. A worthwhile investment, these stands are built to last a lifetime!
There is, simply put, a solution to every problem. Triad-Orbit aren’t only pushing the design industry further, but they’re fixing issues that’ve long been accepted as par for the course for musicians and engineers.
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