So I'm trying to make the kick sound more prominent. If I leave it as is, it is drowned out by the the rest of the song. If I throw a limiter, compressor, or up the volume of the sample itself (even with EQ or filters) I get a popping sound whenever someone the stray really high freq's come in.

Is there a way to get rid of that, yet make the kick sound...worthy, if you will.

The style I'm going for is more of progressive house/trance.

You could try sidechaining/ducking. or possibly Eq everything around the kick.. i.e, cut the lo freq of other sounds to make more room for the kick.

Sidechaining doesn't help, unfortunately.

Even when the kick is by itself, run through BP, HP, and LP filters. It's annoying since I haven't had this problem before.

Pick a new kick?

Love the sig Dodi - right attitude.
Try some tape saturation + maybe some exciter. There's enough freeware plugs to do the job, and that recently fixed the kick on a mix of mine.
Hi-shelf roll-off the freqs above 8k and use a small peak around 7k to make the 'click' of the kick come through more prominently.
Other than that, don't lowpass unless it sounds better, but use a small peak on 60hz to punch it out.
Hope this helps.
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Have you tried turning everything else down?

-Kim.

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Martin

What do you mean by popping sound?

I find it best to put all the channels on the mixer down to zero, then bring the channel with the kick to the desired level. Next start bringing up the rest of the channels one by one and work around the kick. Rather than every part of the song trying to fight for the same space you'll have more control over everything. It may take a couple of attempts too to get exactly what you want.

Hope this helps...

Thanks for the plethora of replies. I'll try all of these.

And what I mean by popping sounds is almost like when you put a vinyl on the turntable and you hear the pops. But they happen when the kick peaks.