There is a technique which I got from a YouTube video, which is a great way on how to sample kick drums.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwcpLk__6rs

Note in this video, you need to give it a chance, as it does look like some bad crappy video but in fact it's the opposite. I'll do my best and condense it down into a few points on what the technique is for people who don't want to watch it.

1 - Load in Kick sample
2 - Copy it 4 times onto a seperate channel (so you have 4 audio tracks)
3 - 4 versions of any multi-band EQ (Ozone Multi-Band Dynamics will work) - 1 instance in each track, what you're doing is splitting the kick drum over the 4 tracks into different frequency bands.
4 - Freeze all tracks and then flatten them in Live, this will then split the kick drum up into 4 different bands.
5 - Process each part of the kick drum seperately (Fades etc) and then bounce out as "1 complete" kick drum.

Hope this helps anyone, it is a lengthy process but it's worth it as you get greater control over each frequency band of the kick drum. I imagine that you can substitute Ableton for any other DAW.

So, in my time I have tried a couple of slight alterations to my mastering signal chain, but in the end I found the one below works best for me.

First - Linear Phase EQ (only doing slight boosting/cutting <1-1.5db at max)
Second - Waves SSLComp (max 2-3db GR)
Third - Ozone (modules are multi-band dynamics, multi-band exciter, stereo imager)
Fourth - Waves Linear MultiBand Compressor/Limiter (once again, hardly any gain reduction being activated)
Although sometimes I switch this to the API-2500 compressor (plugin version), which is set to about .5 of a dB GR at max
Final - Waves L2, not trying to crush it too hard

Although from reading other posts, I keep seeing the Invisible Limiter mentioned up, may have to try that out.