What Happened to JuicedLink ?

I was just looking them up myself and noticed their site is gone. They made good quality products but not the most user friendly.
 
Question was recently asked somewhere else too, and I mentioned how B&H has most of their products listed as discontinued. Maybe they are done.
 
Yes Dingo, their website is indeed down.. AND many of their products show "No longer available" though B&H. Not a good sign.
Maybe they got sued by Zaxcom for the 'Little Darling' audio recorder. Similar to the Zaxcom v. Teac US patent infringement case, but JuicedLink likely does not very deep pockets.
Just speculating, I don't know for sure either way.
 
Too bad. But to be fair, they didn't have enough differentiation in their products from similar stuff available from Tascam, Zoom etc. - the claim was better quality, but it wasn't enough given the substantial price premium compared to Tascam etc. Plus, I think they really mishandled the Little Darling thing - they were way, way late to the market. I don't know if the legal patent thing was a factor, but even if it wasn't, it was a day late and dollar short - again, Tascam is there with a comparable product at a cheap price; had JL come out with it in the original time frame they indicated (actually it's just one guy, from what I understand), they'd have a couple of years of exclusive sales to build up market share, but they dragged their feet forever and by the time they came out, it was basically irrelevant given the options. It's a tough market and not very big.
 
My memory was that JuicedLink was ahead of many companies in providing useful audio accessories for small/consumer DV camcorders. Ya, there was Beachtek and some others, but JuiceLink carved out a niche for themselves. I think they did OK with some audio kit for DSLRs, too. But then as OldCorpse says, Tascam, Zoom, etc. joined the party.

With Little DARling, IIRC they first showed prototypes in 2014 but didn't ship until two years later. Could be they started development way before Tascam started working on the DR-10. But such a small company, together with the Zaxcom patent may have put a damper on expansion and outside investors.

But I have no idea.

Hope we learn what's up soon and hope the people there land somewhere good.
 
The juicedLink Youtube channel is gone. My two favorites were a clear and simple demo of shotgun mic placement and an endearingly dorky demo of how to hold your camcorder in one hand and a boom pole in the other. Robert Rozak, I hope you're okay!
 
Rick R said:
Yes Dingo, their website is indeed down.. AND many of their products show "No longer available" though B&H. Not a good sign.
Maybe they got sued by Zaxcom for the 'Little Darling' audio recorder. Similar to the Zaxcom v. Teac US patent infringement case, but JuicedLink likely does not very deep pockets.
Just speculating, I don't know for sure either way.
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Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw this thread, that maybe Zaxcom bankrupted them :-/ :-o

Ram S.O.S said:
I was just looking them up myself and noticed their site is gone. They made good quality products but not the most user friendly.
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http://www.juicedlink.com/

Nooooooo! :-(

combatentropy said:
The juicedLink Youtube channel is gone. My two favorites were a clear and simple demo of shotgun mic placement and an endearingly dorky demo of how to hold your camcorder in one hand and a boom pole in the other. Robert Rozak, I hope you're okay!
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The fact even the YouTube channel is gone (which costs absolutely nothing to keep up, unlike a website which has a cost, a very small cost however), makes me wonder if there is something else going on here.
 
I use one of their three channel mixers......very clean.....very compact....very dependable. I am sooooo sad to see them go.
 
What happened on the Little Darling is that after he showed it at NAB, pro users wanted extra features, which accounts for the delay. He should have shipped it as was immediately, then offer later versions with pro features.
 
Regardless if you used their products Juiced Link was early to market with some innovative and affordable (relatively speaking) products. They also gave back to the community with useful instruction and guidance for beginners entering the space. I can understand that market forces may have played a part in this but if it was purely due to litigation that would really be a bummer.
 
Curtis Mack said:
What happened on the Little Darling is that after he showed it at NAB, pro users wanted extra features, which accounts for the delay. He should have shipped it as was immediately, then offer later versions with pro features.
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What in particular were people demanding?

The two key features I'd want is safety track recording + time code, but all at a price closer to the Tascam DR10L than the Lectrosonics PDR
 
So sorry to hear they've left the market. Bought one of their CX431 preamps a few yrs back and was very happy with it; good quality and reliable. (Still have it, too). From some e-mails with them, I got the impression at the time it was pretty much a one-person operation then, but he took it very diligently. I hope he fared ok from whatever the problem may have been.
 
I think JuicedLink is/was mostly one guy, Robert Rozak. He lives/lived in or near Palo Alto, the true heart of Silicon Valley. I don't know what happened, but I think the odds are high that he (and any colleagues/contractors/etc) will land on his feet. Sure hope so.
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/videography/comments/6xugk8/juicedlink_is_gone/

Just speculating, but it sounds like he was forced to shut down under some kind of legal threat. Cease and desist your entire business, so to speak. There's no other plausible explanation for why you would delete a YT channel. You want off the grid, and given his passion for what he did, it was more than likely not by choice.

If you read the Reddit thread, Zaxcom also owns the patent to recording one channel -16dB lower than another, and if that's true, it is more than the Little Darlings that would have been an infringement. It would have been his Micro-Riggys too.

This is a shame no matter how you look at it. No winners here.
 
That SUCKS big time.

Used to be seriously thinking about investing into full Zaxcom set up in the future, when I could. As is pretty tempting.

But now I'm thinking the opposite, and to just rule them out completely, the bastards!!

Hope Lectrosonics takes them to court and wins big, to free up this space for innovation for everyone else.
 
I don't exactly know, but ??? is it just a coincidence it was soon after the release of the Little Darling e.g., the Zaxcom v Teac America patent infringement. I doubt the linear safety track has anything to do with it. Zaxcom's NeverClip™ is different.
 
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