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Peavey Electronics Corporation was founded by Hartley Peavey on his passionate commitment to be the most innovative organization in the music and sound industry. As it approaches its 50th anniversary, the company is redefining itself in consideration of the evolving and increasingly competitive market. In order to remain effective, the company announces intentions to restructure its international operations.

The Public Theater in New York City has been a symbol of culture and community since its opening in the 1950s. In 1998, the non-profit organization in the heart of the East Village opened the two hundred seat live performance venue known as Joe's Pub. To celebrate its fifteenth anniversary, Joe's Pub recently invested in a new sound system.

Lausanne’s Haute Ecole de Musique (HEMU) is the leading music college in French-speaking Switzerland. Offering degree and Masters level courses in classical, jazz and modern music, it opened a brand new performance venue in June 2014 which features a comprehensive Yamaha and Nexo audio system.

Tomorrowland is a renowned electronic music festival held in Belgium and this year’s event, which took place in the town of Boom, marked its tenth anniversary. Now recognised as one of the most notable global music festivals, Tomorrowland was held over two weekends in July, with MTV promising a two hour long feature and a documentary surrounding the event’s anniversary.

When it came to lighting superstar Katy Perry’s current ‘Prismatic’ world tour, lighting and show designer to the stars Baz Halpin selected the Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash 330 to create a series of poptastic surprise special effects.

Clay Paky, the Italian manufacturer that for decades has been one of the world’s leaders in show and entertainment lighting, is getting ready for a new phase in its history. Pasquale Quadri, founder and current President, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of the company by OSRAM, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world.

Robert Juliat’s mighty Lancelot followspots have been chosen to illuminate yet another prestigious international venue. The Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany has acquired four of these titans of the Robert Juliat followspot portfolio.

Christ for All Nations for All Nations (CfaN) recently debuted its new Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system at a four-day gospel crusade on the outskirts of Bujumbura, Burundi. Set up in an open field without delay towers, the LEO system performed flawlessly for the musical and speech programs in front of 200,000 visitors

The DiGiCo team has spent the last 18 months consulting with Electra Partners about the possible combination of both Allen & Heath and Calrec with the DiGiCo family. The culmination of this brings together three British console companies to create a new professional audio group, while retaining their unique skills, customer relationships and the identities of each brand.­­­

2014 is the year of the Mondovisione Tour. The Italian rocker Luciano Ligabue will perform around all the main soccer stadiums in Italy throughout the entire summer. It is a journey full of expectation and emotion, as Ligabue has decided to tour with sound reinforcement from RCF, the legendary company from Reggio Emilia which sets the benchmark for excellence in the international professional amplification industry.

Audix announced at the 2014 Las Vegas InfoComm the release of the newest microphone for the installed sound industry, the M3 Tri‐element Ceiling Microphone. The M3 is the only multi‐element design available with fully balanced circuits below the ceiling and a UL rated plenum box solution above the ceiling tile.

DPA has overcome the biggest challenge of all – how to give control of mic placement to non-technical actors or reality show contenstants without compromising sound quality. DPA's solution, which will be on show at IBC 2014, is the d:screet™ Omnidirectional Miniature Necklace Microphone

The Rolling Stones have just finished the European section of their “14 On Fire” tour with another spectacular lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Basset Design (WBD) … Which included 54 x Robe ROBIN Pointes amongst 200 plus other moving lights.

One of the Belgium’s best-known football teams is celebrating an audio refurbishment at its home stadium, the Stade Constant Vanden Stock, known better as the Stade d’Anderlecht. Home to Anderlecht FC, the 24,000-capacity Brussels stadium, used solely for football, needed to upgrade its 25-year-old PA/VA system. Following evaluation of three possible solutions, longtime Anderlecht solution supplier Prosonix, together with NEXO’s Belgian distributor’s Pascal Deneef, proposed a NEXO compact, 2-way GEO S12-ST system.

We had not yet seen the Vista X, nor its mysterious processing unit, Infinity Core. It was unveiled on June 18 at a restaurant in Issy les Moulineaux, where the staff of Studer and of Audiopole delved into questions of flavor, aroma and, especially, presentation... the first one in Europe. Here they faced with patience and relish an Infinity of questions about the new flagship.