post processing is going to be important of course. i neglected to mention that so thanks for the heads up.
but you do not need a neve compressor to make infected kicks!. you can synthesize them in soundforge and then pitch bend them again. thats for the shape of the kick. if you look at alot of 'knocking' psy kick drums in a spectrum analyser they start dead on and oscillate along a sine wave that is flat and at high amplitude. then it tails off in an inverse exponential tail.
depending on the result from soundforge you will probably need to overdrive it (to add some kind of harmonic content) and run it through some tubes or valves to warm it up.
if you are feeling really frisky, reimport it back into soundforge and open an 808 kick sample (you can synthesise something like it in soundforge using FM i you dont have one). then fade in the 'click' part of the drum and layer it with the psy kick drum to add some extra sub bass weight.
depending on the end result of that you may or may not want to compress it. or you could compress it first, then do the overdriving, warming up afterwards.
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