I just stumble on a new way to help the kick cut through a dense mix, although it may of already been touched on somewhere, but anyway, I've started doing this:
Take the dry kick track, eq it until it sounds great and stuff as per usual, but if it' still getting lost, Send it to a bus by itself and compress the living shit out of the bus, so basically just like parallel compression.
Then on the compressed bus, hpf until there's almost no bottom end (you should hopefully have a pretty good sounding bottom end in the original kick track) and then boost with a high shelf.
take the bus level all the way down, then slowly bring it up in the context of the whole mix, and it should cut through better than before
So basically, parallel compression with some eq pahahaha
Take the dry kick track, eq it until it sounds great and stuff as per usual, but if it' still getting lost, Send it to a bus by itself and compress the living shit out of the bus, so basically just like parallel compression.
Then on the compressed bus, hpf until there's almost no bottom end (you should hopefully have a pretty good sounding bottom end in the original kick track) and then boost with a high shelf.
take the bus level all the way down, then slowly bring it up in the context of the whole mix, and it should cut through better than before
So basically, parallel compression with some eq pahahaha