We record concerts and dj sets. We take the sound from the mixer straight into our mixer. In order to record the crowd's sound, we use a Rode NTG2 aimed at the public. Problem is that there's often a lot of bass, overcranking our microphone, so we can only use it when there are no drumsounds.

Any idea how to set our mic to avoid this? Or do we use the wrong microphone?

Might be an idea, never tried it :)

Now now... no need to get snarky. I hope that wasn't your intent, and that I'm just reading that wrong.

I worked in video for years before I had to touch an audio board, because someone else was always running it. When I did have to handle a mixer, I had no idea what anything did except for the mute and sliders. I learned what I needed to learn to get that job done, and I've been learning more every day since... but I'm no expert... and that is what helps prevent me from sounding like a jerk when I respond to comments online.

Dude, it was snarky ;) Lighten up please, so people will enjoy reading the posts and contributing.

It's not so much about the opinion itself but more so the way it came across & the way you said it. There are better ways to express opinions without being toxic.

70+ gigs and no clue about an audio mixer's channel low cut and eq? Really?

My company is professional in the sense that we get paid by our customers. Over the years we have worked together with many other professionals from the audio side of things. From them we have learned a lot. In general audio engineers from suppliers, broadcast producers, etc have been very kind and in a gentle way suggested to us how our audio could be improved. (And, on a side note been impressed by what we can do with vMix).

They sometimes share stories with us about other video producers who show up (at for example a venue for a big production) and are totally ignorant about cabling, signal levels, etc. Such behavior does of course irritate them.

Ovinas first comment on low cut and EQ was very helpful. And as many other here I found his follow up comment less valuable. In particular because the initial question came from a vMix user who asked for help on how to improve their audio - showing far from ignorance.

A couple of years ago, when we started to develop solutions for live audio descriptions for people hard of hearing, I ran into the concept of side-chaining. I am still learning about side-chaining and auto ducking. But this topic's question made me think that perhaps an even more advanced solution is to route the drum mike (or other relevant sources) as a side-chain source to auto-duck the crowd mike. Of course that is more complicated, again - just an idea. Please note, I am trying here to share some of the things I learned. Not bragging about things I actually don't understand sufficiently.

I alwas want to learn more, and improve. So, I am now a proud owner of the Behringer XR18 (unfortunately with not enough time to play with it). I am confident that this type of remote control digital mixers, using apps (Win, Mac, Android, iOS), will revolutionize audio mixing.

If you have time, take a look at for example this 3 minute tutorial: X AIR How To: Ringing out Monitors with Graphic EQ & RTA (Android). In that view a simple "low cut and EQ" seems amateurish ;) If nothing else, the tutorial illustrates the use of "a multi-band graphic equalizer".