a basic width control does wonders for me. It controls how mono or stereo i want the material to be(pre or post fader). Couple that on your effect inserts, you can achieve and ever greater amount of control. The layers you get from having many things slightly less stereo piled up on each other gives a nice full effect. To me i t helps fill out some spaces that aren't used by instrumentation. This idea also is applied to pre insert effect panning (much like the haas effect you can send that source effected by the has to a reverb)

so control of your stereo is considered to me just as important as volume staging, and eq. The foundation that a good mix is built on. (as well as good source material but that's almost taste)

It might be eq man. I try not to rely on side chaining.

It could be volume staging and eq. For a long time i fought with getting the bass and kick to sit right. In my mixes i tend to have the drum group the loudest in relation to every thing else (very little group volume augmentation) and leave the sub to go straight into your master or premaster channel/group.

I adjust the sub bass to not over power, but if you're cutting your frequencies in your kick to just let the sub carry most of the sub sonic weight, then you're in for a good deal.

I'd also try to make the sub sit a little lower than the kick drum. This last advice is a little tricky, because you'd need to use your feeling and ears rather than your eyes, because if you would drop your sub that low, it might not even exist.

I'd also advise you maybe layer in a more audible bass frequency that plays the sub part, just so it's more in the bass than the sub sonic region.

I listened to your track as well, it sounds alright, but the top end isn't pleasant to listen to. The overall perspective is kinda thin.
The bass is loud and clear, but compared to, currently listening to truth's mix TRUTH CHRONICLES, i can hear your sub clearly at a low volume on consumers, where his is more attenuated towards the drums and music.

It could be a perspective you carry in the mix that is affecting the way you're treating the bass. Out side of every advice posted, that's just my two cents.

I leave my kick and snare at mono.

I think it gives more room to the instruments.

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If you're looking to upgrade or to buy a new computer, i would recommend you build it yourself. that way, you'll know what you have and you'll also be able to upgrade it if required.

here's specs for an ultimate Desktop PC for music and games It's a bit long but, it's very helpfull (made by Kerosyn):
Kit's Ultimate Guide to building your Perfect Desktop PC
Read everything, and you'll know everything you need .

That's exactly what i did 2 months ago, i just took a little risk by getting an AMD processor instead of intel due to the huge price difference. Lately, my DAW started crackling in projects that aren't that big so i'm afraid i've taken the wrong decision.

I've an intel, and no problem. Yeah intel is better for producing.

Yes i know, not sure why it's better because my AMD FX 8530 runs 8 cores and 16 MB cache, and it's half the price of the i7 4790k

intel focuses on quality.

plus intel made a gamble as to where the direction of the technology would go, where it'd need more cores, but they lost.

so intel has better "hyper threading", i think, per core compared to amd. i switched on my most recent build, and lordy it's fantastic.

Look up speaker calibration.

i think presonus has a free pdf that gives you some general tips, and specifics based off their products.

open is as close to monitors as you're going to get. generally used for mixing monitoring

closed back has more isolation, but at the cost of....environmental effects, lets say. generally used when setting up mics in a loud recording space.

any thing with convolution, because you could have a great variety to get the feel you want with the impulse responses. (not to mention amp simulation)

plus you can do some cool layering if you push your bass through an impulse of a shoe lol