When you say "Trident," you think "sounds like rock history." And you're right — because Trident Studios in London was the place where, in the 1970s, albums that changed music were born: the Beatles' White Album, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, Queen's Sheer Heart Attack, and Supertramp's Crime of the Century. But Trident is not just a recording studio — it is above all a legend of analog consoles.
In 1971, the engineers at Trident Studios decided to build their own mixing console, tailored to their own needs. That's how the A-Range was born — a hand-built desk with fully discrete transistor circuitry (integrated circuits didn't exist yet), with characteristic inductors in the EQ section that gave it that warm, "three-dimensional" sound. When word spread across the industry, orders began pouring in from around the world — and so from an internal project, Trident Audio Developments (TRIAD) was born as a manufacturing company.
Over the following decades, Trident set the standard: B-Range, Series 80, Series 80B — each console had its own unique character and found its way into the world's greatest studios. The Series 80 became the best-selling model in the company's history and remains to this day a reference point for producers working in analog. The EQ section with its signature "Trident character" — cutting and precise up top, rich and full on the bottom — is something you simply cannot mistake for anything else.
In 2010, PMI Audio Group acquired the Trident brand along with all documentation and intellectual property rights, and in 2015 launched a new line of consoles: the Trident 88 (for large commercial studios), Trident 78 (smaller commercial studios), and Trident 68 (home studios). All of them are built on the topology and EQ sound of the legendary 80-series — because why fix something that has worked for half a century?
Trident is the choice for those who want not just a tool, but a piece of music history — a console through which the voices of Bowie, Freddie Mercury, and Elton John once passed.
