I'm listening on my studio monitors... they give an accurate portrayal of what the music sounds like without the frills and enhancements fro the most part... Sounds good to me... if you think the kick is too loud or distorted... try dampening it with a limiter or lower the volume and mix it with another clean bass drum hit... Experiment a bit and see wut happenz..
A Kick im making now has a sound effect from the opening doors in Star Wars... it seemed to mesh the bass well with the hats thru the barz... I reversed it tho'.. and lowered the volume so it tucked underneath the Kick.. Now tomorrow I'll add some Bass Keys.. (A ton of work, and for only one section of the song..)
It pays off tho' .. It would be fun i thnk if we did a remix project... But it's one project at atime for me... lol I gots my hands full..