USA - Peavey Electronics, one of the music industry's largest manufacturers and suppliers, will open a West Coast factory showroom, artist relations headquarters and multimedia dealer education centre on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on 1 September.

Peavey Hollywood is billed as "a unique brand experience that will give musicians, audio pros, systems integrators and music retailers a 360-degree view of the products, artists and philosophy that have made Peavey an iconic brand in music and audio". A high-end retail showcase for Peavey and its affiliated brands - Composite Acoustics, Trace Elliot, Budda Amplification, Crest Audio, Architectural Acoustics and MediaMatrix - Peavey Hollywood is designed "to create awareness for Peavey products and the compan

UK - Park Live in the Olympic Park was created to provide the ultimate viewing experience for visitors to the Olympic Park for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympics.

Two enormous screens mounted back-to back, floating on a gigantic platform and stage on the River Lea face out to acres of parkland areas on either side.

Sound Directions UK designed a distributed sound system for the parklands to ensure all visitors enjoyed high quality and evenly distributed sound.

Cloud VTX-4400 4-channel 400W amplifiers are used to drive nearly 100 SoundTube XT850i-GN in-ground loudspeaker

USA - For three days in August, an estimated 100,000 fans converged at the sold-out Outside Lands festival in San Francisco. With acts including Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Metallica, and Foo Fighters, this year's lineup at the Lands End main stage was supported by Meyer Sound's freshly unveiled Leo linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. Leo's exceptional fidelity made an instant impression on many attending industry professionals who encountered LEO for the first time, including Another Planet, producer of Outside Lands.

"Faithfully reproducing music for 65,000 is no easy

Finland - Allen & Heath's Finnish distributor, Noretron Audio Ltd., has finalised a deal with Viking Line Abp to install iLive digital mixing systems and MixWizard analogue rackmount mixers in the company's new M/S Viking Grace cruise ship.

iLive systems, comprising iLive-T112 and iLive-T80 Control Surfaces with iDR-48 and iDR-16 Mix Racks equipped with DANTE network option cards, and a total of seven MixWizard WZ316:2 rackmount mixers, will be installed in the ship's night club, and several restaurants and conference rooms.

Noretron is also supplying all other entertainment audio,

Australia - Canberra's Elite Sound & Lighting has taken delivery of its first order of Shure UHF-R Wireless Microphone Systems to cater to their growing corporate, events and rock'n'roll market.

"Our Shure UHF-R systems will service many of our premium gigs," remarked Darren Russell, Elite's managing director. "So far we've found them to be very good, reliable and provide very stable RF performance. The Shure UHF-R's user-interface is very friendly and easy to follow. We really like the simplicity of use and the fact that they come with all the inter-connect cables and

Latest Issue. . .