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AES Executive Director Roger Furness To Step Down

AES Executive Director Roger Furness To Step Down

NEW YORK – Jim Kaiser, president of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) has announced that Roger Furness, AES executive director since 1994, will step down from his position at the end of 2011. An AES member since 1975, Furness has served as Section Chair, Vice President AES Europe and as AES President. To ensure continuity in all aspects of the AES organization, the Executive Committee has asked him to remain as Executive Director Emeritus throughout 2012.

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JuiceBox from Juice Goose

Juice Goose's JuiceBox is designed to serve as a solution for those looking for more power distribution options, particularly those who don't have racked equipment. Since a single outlet on an extension cord isn't usually enough, Juice Goose is introducing its new JuiceBox 6, a power distribution box that can be set on the floor far away from a wall outlet, in the middle of a stage or anywhere else where AC power is needed. The company notes that it's like "having a rack mounted power strip without the rack."

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EAW VF Series

EAW's VF Series family of passive products includes five models of VFR two-way full-range loudspeakers, two VFS subwoofers and three VSM stage monitors. The hybrid VF line combines portable and install features in one package, and can be considered an update to EAW's VR and FR Series with enhanced transducer technology and performance. The boxes' consistent construction allows for a number of configuration possibilities spanning the VFR and VFS Series, including clusters and arrays, matching speaker/subwoofer pairs or standalone units.

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Planting Lectrosonics Mics for Boxcar Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors

SAN FRANCISCO – Running sound for the Boxcar Theatre's musical show Little Shop of Horrors isn't like your typical musical Broadway production sound setup where all the action takes place on the stage. The show starts in the lobby of the theatre-where it's transformed into Mushnick's floral shop-and proceeds into the streets for "Skid Row." After Skid Row, the audience and cast are brought into the theatre. Organizing the multiple microphones to make all this take place is a major event in and of itself, and it wouldn't have happened without the wireless technology of Lectrosonics.

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EAW MicroWedge8 and MicroWedge10 Stage Monitors

EAW's recent additions to their MicroWedge Series of stage monitors include the MicroWedge8 (MW8) and MicroWedge10 (MW10). The MW8 has an 8-inch woofer and the MW10 features a 10-inch woofer. Both units' coaxial designs pair the respective woofers with a 3-in (diaphragm) coaxially-mounted HF compression driver, and both are designed for impressive size-to-performance ratio, feedback stability, LF output, durability and out-of-the-box performance.

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