What Phil wrote, but it's not only the beater, it's the kick itself that's dominating the mix in a bad way. You have to turn the kick down and bring it on a level with the rest of the drum kit. There is an easy way to level kick, snare and bass against each other:
First: Try this for kick and bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRx4WF3pcc
Second: For Kick and snare, I adopted a trick from Nolly from Periphery that's been really helpful: Put a bus compressor like Slates FG-Grey (that's what Nolly uses in his example) on the drum bus and dial in a fast release and fast attack (but not the fastest attack - let some of the transients through). Now solo kick and snare and set the threshold so that each snare hit gets compressed by 3 dB and each kick hit gets compressed by 1 dB. Be careful with double bass parts because if you haven't already treated the kick to be quieter in a double bass part it will trigger the compressor too hard. Usually, you have to change the volume of the snare track to bring it on the right level with the kick. Nolly is using this technique on the mix bus, but I find it works better on the drum bus for me. In 9 out of 10 cases, kick and snare will be in the perfect spot afterwards
Back to your mix: The kick almost completely disappears in the double bass part which is kinda strange, too It sounds like you have reduced the highs and also turned down the volume of the kick. I wouldn't touch the highs and only reduce the low end with a low shelf by -3db and automate that shelf so it's on every time the drummer plays a double bass line and off if the drummer only plays single kick hits.
Also: A bit too much reverb, the guitars are not loud enough (and are missing mids and therefore sound weak compared with the mastered version) and the synthies are too loud
Hope that helps - have a great day and keep up the good work
DIrk
First: Try this for kick and bass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRx4WF3pcc
Second: For Kick and snare, I adopted a trick from Nolly from Periphery that's been really helpful: Put a bus compressor like Slates FG-Grey (that's what Nolly uses in his example) on the drum bus and dial in a fast release and fast attack (but not the fastest attack - let some of the transients through). Now solo kick and snare and set the threshold so that each snare hit gets compressed by 3 dB and each kick hit gets compressed by 1 dB. Be careful with double bass parts because if you haven't already treated the kick to be quieter in a double bass part it will trigger the compressor too hard. Usually, you have to change the volume of the snare track to bring it on the right level with the kick. Nolly is using this technique on the mix bus, but I find it works better on the drum bus for me. In 9 out of 10 cases, kick and snare will be in the perfect spot afterwards
Back to your mix: The kick almost completely disappears in the double bass part which is kinda strange, too
It sounds like you have reduced the highs and also turned down the volume of the kick. I wouldn't touch the highs and only reduce the low end with a low shelf by -3db and automate that shelf so it's on every time the drummer plays a double bass line and off if the drummer only plays single kick hits. Also: A bit too much reverb, the guitars are not loud enough (and are missing mids and therefore sound weak compared with the mastered version) and the synthies are too loud
Hope that helps - have a great day and keep up the good work
DIrk