when it comes to Slate I'm limited to just a couple o' .gogs with kicks and snares from the 1.5 version, nothing above 10. but if you want a super punchy snare that rocks when mastered, mix with a temporary mastering chain containing enough limiters to push it up to commercial level. put Gclip on something like a return plugin slot (i.e. slot i7 and i8 in Cubase 5) on the snare track and drag the clipping back a bit and boost it. now you can move the fader of the channel up without raising the peak. and slate samples are notoriously "dead", so lots and lots of Z4 (room) before the clipper, but after the compressor.
EQ-wise, just boost the shit out of the 150-200hz range. hipass it at like 12-13khz to remove crap frequencies and then boost with a wide Q at around 6-8khz. narrow cut at 350-500hz and a wider cut at 800hz-3khz. compress it to shit with like 15-20 ms attack and ~100ms release. get the top-end wash from the bottom snare mic by using the same EQ as the top (without the hipass) and changing the attack of the compressor to like 1-5ms and bring down the threshold a bit.
I've tried this on like 5 snares now (with some variation ofcourse) and have gotten fairy good results every time.
