if you're a Ableton Live 9 Suite owner, in the group buss try out corpus(to add Punchy & thumpy character),Frequency shifter's drive knob(to compensate, decrease the input gain) the drive knob is like a magic knob mainly when the dry/wet knob is 0% as it sums all the sounds together magically assuming you're kick prior to this stage already sounds half way decent.
And to finish it up put your kick into the ableton's sampler and play with FM OSC wave type & volume control in the filter tab section.( just note put the volume back to -3 to 0db from the -12 db default mark before messing it up).
Hope this helps, i just used this post to quickly wrap up what i did 2 days ago so that i can myself look at these notes later on when I go back to percussion designing.
I am now looking forward to creating snareshots & toms,feel free to PM me some tricks in Live 9.
Cheers!

http://www.tb-software.com/TBProAudio/ab_lm.html
Requirements: Reaper Daw or Free Reaplugs where you can use it as an JSFX.
First of all thanks a lot to the founders for taking us back to the platform of where it all started.
It's a simple trick which quickly matches your final channel output to the output before your FX chain (or whatever you specify)so that you can A/B without including the loudness factor.
PS: It can even do it in REAL TIME which is always great.
Cheers!