Try tuning the resonant head higher and keep the batter head loose enough, so you preserve enough of the click sound that’s important to make the kick drum cut through the mix. A super fat, low tuned, big sounding kick might sound cool on it’s own, but in the dense, fast arrangement of your song it will be lost and create a big low end mess. If you want a super punchy, defined and tight kick drum, because the song is pretty fast and technical, start by tuning it high enough for that to work. Let’s assume you have a kick drum, a bass guitar, rhythm guitars and a couple of SFX / post-production elements like bass drops and a sub-synth bass line. When you arrange your song, think about which elements are part of your low end. Well, I googled it to see if anyone came up with a quick and easy definition and the first thing I found was who put it like this: Yup, that’s right, I’m telling you to fix this during recording and capture tracks that make it easy for any experienced mixing engineer to get a foundation of the mix that fits your style of music and is just as big, tight, defined, round, transparent or punchy, as you want it to be. And all that BEFORE the mixing process even starts.
But there’s a solution to this, a systematic and musical approach that is relatively easy to learn and after a little experimenting and practice, it enables you to get the bass elements of your mix just right. Or, even worse, try to somehow get it right later in the mix themselves. At that point they just give up and leave it to the mix engineer. Now the kick is boomy and undefined, the bass notes are not really audible and the guitars too thin. They listen back to their raw recordings and find the kick drum to be weak, the bass swallowing up everything else, the guitars muddy and undefined and the bass drops and sub-synths barely audible. So many people, especially home recorders, are struggling with this.
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