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Night Ranger is a great ’80s band. They deserved a better venue and sound production for their recent show for the Bend Summer Festival. Who’s ideal was it to have a concert at Troy Field? Bad choice.

How did they ever expect people to get in and out of a single three-foot. gate? And now crowd control to boot. OMG, who was running the [front of house] mix?

I realize that we live in a MP3 generation but please the mix was a muddled, boomy mess. You have one of the best guitar teams out of the ’80s with eight-finger tapping techniques, etc. and you couldn’t distinguish the guitars until [you moved] two blocks away – let alone the vocals. I am sure the band played great, but who could tell. I am not one of those who wants to turn down the volume. I like loud blazing guitars, but I actually want to be able to hear them.

Sadly disappointed.

– Max

This article appears in Jul 14-20, 2011.

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Night Ranger Mix Was a Mess

by Source Weekly, The Source - Bend, Oregon
July 13, 2011

<h1>Night Ranger Mix Was a Mess</h1> <p class="byline">by Source Weekly, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />July 13, 2011</p> <p>Night Ranger is a great &apos;80s band. They deserved a better venue and sound production for their recent show for the Bend Summer Festival. Who's ideal was it to have a concert at Troy Field? Bad choice.</p> <p>How did they ever expect people to get in and out of a single three-foot. gate? And now crowd control to boot. OMG, who was running the [front of house] mix?</p> <p>I realize that we live in a MP3 generation but please the mix was a muddled, boomy mess. You have one of the best guitar teams out of the &apos;80s with eight-finger tapping techniques, etc. and you couldn't distinguish the guitars until [you moved] two blocks away - let alone the vocals. I am sure the band played great, but who could tell. I am not one of those who wants to turn down the volume. I like loud blazing guitars, but I actually want to be able to hear them.</p> <p align="right"><em>Sadly disappointed.</em></p> <p><em> - Max</em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/night-ranger-mix-was-a-mess-2138666/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=14270&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/opinion/night-ranger-mix-was-a-mess-2138666/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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