How to Process Hardstyle Kicks in Serum 2

Let's say this is your final kick. At the end of the chain I first add a soft clipper, to softly clip it against 0 dB. Then I add an equalizer in front of the distortion.

Use your LFO on envelope and make a shape that resembles the shape of your kick, punch, crunch. Add it to the gain of the low shelf on unipolar and really crank it. At the same time, use a cut around 300 to 400 Hz and take that down during the shape.

Now I use a utility and take down the level for a second. LFO 10 on envelope gets some sort of transient shape, so we can enhance the dynamic range in our kick.

Something I like to do is using the multiband compressor without any downwards compression, only upwards, and dial that in by opening the below. Finally, another distortion on soft clipping, to clip it against 0 dB again.

Feel free to increase the volume of the multiband, but don't overdo it so you don't lose all your dynamic range.