The story

A lifelong musician and lover of all things audio, Todd Horton was born in Ithaca, NY in 1969.

Over the past 35 years, as a trumpet and flugelhorn player, Todd worked with artists and bands in multiple genres including the Spin Doctors, Buddy Miles, Aaron Neville, Ani Difranco, Richard Bona and many others. As a studio musician he worked in famed New York studios such as Electric Ladyland, Avatar, Sear Sound and Looking Glass, while also composing, performing and recording with his own jazz fusion group “D BOP.” In the 1990s, he produced albums at Phillip Glass’s Looking Glass Studios where he learned the ropes from in-house engineers and producers, eventually establishing his own boutique record label Soulsearch Music.

In 2010, from his home studio, Todd came up with the idea of a modular microphone stand he dubbed the “Mic Tree” that would aid in tracking drums in a limited space. He spent the better part of the next ten years designing and developing his stand ideas, building prototypes and endeavoring to eliminate as many of the most common issues with regular microphone stands as possible.

In 2021, satisfied he had a product that improved the lives of musicians, engineers and producers, he began building custom stands out of his workshop for engineers and musicians needing a space saving solution for multi-mic’ing drums, pianos and anything else. Demand grew and Base 4 Stands was born.