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« on: December 06, 2016, 07:47:25 pm »
As stated above, there is no real way around it. You'd have to sacrifice a lot in order to have both kick and bass loud and prominent. Brickwalling may help but in today's online streaming, your track will suffer due to the lovely 128kbps encoders and aliasing websites like Spotify and Soundcloud enforce.
You need to decide early on whether you want the kick or bassline to be driving the track. From there you can make some cuts in and around 200hz to make your kick sound bigger. Also consider using a sub layer under your kick (hi-passing the kick around 90-120hz) and use some volume modulation to get the desired length of the kick. LFO tool is fantastic for this.
This is just stuff I've been doing recently. I'm finding more often than not I'm using a really short kick and just tricking the ears into thinking it's bigger than it actually is.