Another option, similar to what Tentroic said, is to use a volume shaper of some sort to manually duck the audio of your bass every time the kick drum hits. There are a few ways to do this outside of using a compressor, and depending upon your source audio you might not even want to use one anyways!

A compressor is designed to replace an audio engineer manually riding the volume fader on a track. When working with traditional drum recordings, no two kicks will ever sound completely identical because the drummer isn't a machine and can't strike the beater with the same force or timing each hit - so you'll need a processing solution that can compensate for these types of things. That's where a compressor comes in. If you're using a sampled kick drum, or a kick drum made inside a synthesizer like Kick 2, you'll have a perfect recreation of the same sound, every single time, without fail. Why go through all the work of a compressor, when you know how long the tail will be and can take that into account?

There are solutions that can do this for you, like the Trackspacer that hennyhuisman mentioned, or like Peak Rider. If you're not interested in spending that much money, Kickstart is a fantastic and simplified version of one of the solutions I'm about to recommend - It's only $15 USD, and can run either synced to a specific beat value or (with a little finagling) respond to MIDI input! I actually use Kickstart in a lot of my house, trance, and techno tunes because of how quick and easy it is to just slap on, tweak for ten seconds then move on to the rest of my project.

If you're willing to pay the money, my personal suggestions are either VolumeShaper - the big brother of Kickstart - or LFOTool, which is perfect for doing sidechaining but ALSO is a very full featured LFO source for modulating other synthesizers within your DAW.

And if you wanna do it the free way, you can always use Ableton's Utility, Fruity Balance, or whatever other gain control plugin you want to draw in your own volume automation curve and manually create, copy, and paste your ducking as you see fit!

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Mat Zo's Self Assemble was one of the most stylistically diverse albums I listened to this year, and that drew me in.

Noisia's Outer Edges was one of the most well engineered albums I've listened to this decade, and that drew me in.

Anamanaguchi's Capsule Silence "album" showed me a new way to display an musical project and give me the video game-y nostalgia I was looking for, and that drew me in.

Kendrick Lamar's "Untitled, Unmastered" project gave me such an insight into the working process of the hip hop industry and inspired me to never be afraid of releasing imperfect music, and that drew me in.

There's a lot more, but I really don't want to take up too much space haha.

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I dig it! This is a sick tune. Very clean, and overall your mixdown sounds fine. I think what you're missing right now is a sense of space - That lead in the drop is screaming for some reverb, and as far as I can tell it's pretty much playing nonstop outside of the bass growls.

Consider pulling out the lead synth right when the first snare hits on every four or eight bar phrase, and letting the reverb fill up that area to give the listener's ears a quick reprieve before you load it back in. I'm super excited to hear the finished product!

Sounds like a flam'd woodblock hit, with a little reverse sweep-in to me. It's becoming more and more common as a "future bass" snare layer, if you search on Splice you probably could find a ton of copycats,

I own the Sennheiser HD 600s, and they've served me amazingly since I got them. The sound difference between open back and closed back headphones is seriously night and day.

I gotta agree - Kick 2 has replaced buying kick samples for me, especially when it comes to having my kick hit specific frequencies.