Rolltop desks, consoles, racks and lecterns for control rooms, studios, broadcast and education. Heavy construction, eleven finishes, and every piece built to the specification you ask for - quoted by a person, never sold from a cart.
Equipment storage with nothing attached - the racks sold on their own. Everything here is measured in rack spaces, from the 12-space Classic Rack through the Executive Series to the 24-space and dual-bay models. The Classic, Executive and RollRack bodies each carry a ventilated floor, a cabling exit and a secured removable rear panel. Slant RollRack models set the rack face at an up-tilting angle for control visibility, and the compact open-backed models leave the equipment open to the room.
The largest family, and the one most rooms are specified from. Inspire rolltop desks come in standard, extended and high-rise depths, and the internal worksurface clearances repeat across the range so a room can be resized without redesigning it. Matching side racks in 16, 18 and 22 space bolt on to build a multi-desk control centre.
HSA's powered sit-stand line. Every Ascension desk raises and lowers on a dual linear-lift system with an HSA Electric Safety Release, so one workstation serves both seated and standing work. Anodized aluminium tambours, extra-thick side walls and the institutional locking system run through the desks and the matching racks, so a desk and its storage can be specified to match.
Production desks sized around the work, not around a rack. Each PDS is sized by its own code - 32- and 36-inch-deep worksurfaces from 48 to 72 inches wide - for podcasting, broadcasting and recording rooms where the console and the monitors are the job. Every size shares the same ergonomic layout and equipment integration.
The desks the company was built on. Every Classic Rolltop closes under a locking tambour that locks at both the top and the bottom, over an undermounted rack - two of them in the Super Extended and the Rolltop Custom models. It runs from the Standard Mini up to the four-bay Rolltop Custom Quad - pick by how much tabletop and how many consoles you need to cover.
The rolltop without the desk under it. A Desktop model keeps the same internal worksurface clearances as the floor-standing model it is based on, but as a compact body with no tall sides and no undermounted rack - so it can sit on furniture you already have, or in a room where a full desk will not fit. Seven models, one for each of the standard footprints.
The quick, economical end of the range. Express covers the essentials - a compact control-centre desk, a presentation lectern and open equipment racks - built to the same standard as the rest of the line but with a smaller footprint, fewer options and heavy-duty casters where the piece has to move. A straightforward choice for a room that needs a quality answer quickly.
Speaking positions. The lecterns cover the straightforward presentation stand and the USAVID, which packs a rack, a keyboard pullout and locking storage into a single column offered in three worksurface widths. The custom USAVID builds show what the same body does when it is specified for a particular room.
Rack storage in the open. Open Series workstations leave the equipment visible and reachable - vertical rack bays, side access and heavy-duty casters - for rooms where a rolltop would only be in the way. Each one is built around the equipment that has to live in it.
Furniture that moves. These carts carry a rack, a locking tambour bay or a stage monitor from room to room on casters, with worksurfaces finished in laminate over a plywood body. Sized for instructor stations, video villages and stage positions rather than for a permanent room.
The wide, uninterrupted work surface in the range. A Clearspan desk is built as one clear span - a single continuous top from end to end, with nothing breaking it into zones - so a console, a pair of monitors and the paperwork for the session all share the same unbroken bench. Rack bays sit at the ends of the desk, and single-rack or no-rack versions leave the span entirely clear.
Everything the rolltop does, 44.75 inches tall. High Rise desks are built up rather than out, raising the working surface so the monitor bay and an upper slide-out rack sit at eye level from a seated position, with the equipment still covered and locked under the same tambour. Four sizes, from the 21-inch Mini to the Extended.
A single desk for a single job. The Podcasting Desk is built 95 inches wide for a two- or three-person recording setup, with room for microphones, mixing equipment and recording devices on one surface. It is the current answer when the room is a studio rather than a control room.
What the range does when it is asked for something specific. Every record here is a build photographed in a finish or combination HSA was asked for - mirrored desks, steel packages, desks from different families bolted together. Use them to show the shape of what you want, then ask for the standard model with your changes.
Most of our work starts as a standard model and gets modified for the room. Take the idea from a build we have made, then ask for the standard model with your own changes.
Rack bays, accessways, monitor arms, locks, ventilation, casters. Everything is an addition to a model, and every addition is priced into your estimate rather than listed here.
That is the actual rolltop cover mechanism itself on our desks and their racks. HSA has over two decades of design and manufacturing experience creating heavy-duty wood and galvanized steel locking tambours to secure audio/video, control, security and IT electronics. All wooden rolltop tambours include our standard lock. Rack-width through 56" table width products have one lock per Rolltop tambour. Rolltop tambours for desks 68" and wider have 2 locks. Desks ordered with the Galvanized Steel Package option include 2 heavy-duty ILS/Institutional-grade locks (removeable re-keyable cores) per desk rolltop tambour and 1 ILS lock for any rack width products. Galvanized Steel package option available only on desk bodies 68" wide or less (internal, left-to-right measurement).
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What are the most frequently missed options on an order?
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Modesty Panels, to cover the lower rear of a desk when needed, and the several variations of our PLUS4/PLUS5 extra height options to enable equipment to fit are sometimes overlooked. If the desk will be "out in the open" or exposed, you might want the Modesty Panel option. Be sure to measure your equipment, especially the mixing console, and check our dimensioned photos and spec sheets, to see if you need to have the additional clearance from the PLUS4/PLUS5 family of extra height options.
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What does a Modesty Panel do?
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The removable Modesty Panel option (which is included ONLY with the Inspire Series Desks) covers the lower, rear (that is, the side opposite of the seated operator) of the desk. It is simply to finish off the desk rear, covering it from where the upper solid back ends and down to the floor, if a desk is entirely exposed. It shields the “undertable” area that may contain cables, supplies and the operator's legs from view. If a desk is facing away from view, or against a barrier, it may not be needed or wanted. Modesty Panels are an option on all desk except for the Inspire Series, where they are already included due to the open nature beneath the desk (Inspire desk have no undermounted racks).
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What do the “PLUS” type options do?
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The PLUS4 & PLUS5 extra height options (and all the variations such as INPLUS4, HRPLUS5, etc) add extra overall height to a desk. Importantly, this extra height begins at the table surface, which remains at 25.75” from the floor, and goes “up”. The extra height, then, creates additional clearance between the table surface and the underside of the desk's main rolltop tambour. This extra clearance is to accommodate, for instance, taller mixing consoles or to give additional height when used with the VIDEOBAY option for video monitors. As an example, the Inspire Extended Rolltop (item code INSEXT-II) has 9.00” of vertical height clearance between the table and underside of the rolltop tambour. Adding the INPLUS5 option changes that clearance to 14.00” and the overall desk height to 41.625”. Also, on the Inspire Series, any of the Inspire Sideracks included are increased in height to match and additional rack rail length included.
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