Tripods, clamps, masts, extrusions and outdoor microphone protection. The mechanics that hold a measurement still while the wind blows.
Urban monitoring in exposed locations.
A gull landing on the microphone invalidates a week of data.
The microphone away from the tripod that reflects it.
Mounting on what is already there, with no building work.
Fewer thefts and less curiosity during long monitoring.
Fixing to whatever is there: railings, poles, pipes.
Dome, windscreen, bird spikes and desiccator, assembled and tested.
A stable position for campaigns lasting several days.
A stable indoor support without a bulky tripod.
Electronics in the field for months, with membrane vent and cable glands.
Brackets, T-nuts, screws: the small parts that are always missing.
The "roughly level" that invalidates a vibration measurement.
Industrial sheds and plant rooms.
A mast that falls over is the most expensive cost of the whole campaign.
Repeating the position to the millimetre across two campaigns.
Microphone protection for long monitoring campaigns — the ones that stay outdoors for days or weeks and take rain, wind and dust.
A tripod that does not blow over.
Kit for fixing microphone and source where they actually need to go: facades, poles, balconies, parapets. Today you make do with whatever is left in the van.
Several microphones on one support, at known distances.
Measuring inside ducts without self-induced noise.
A consumable that degrades in sunlight: here with a declared density.
Mounting and dismounting twenty times a day.
The microphone looks up and takes water: solved without altering the response.
Planned maintenance instead of a failure.