Do you go this far do get your kick just right?

Just been reading an article where the writer suggests copying a kick drum onto 3 seperate tracks and working with them each seperately for fundamental, a "pressure point" one octave above, and also higher frequcny harmonics.
 
Sounded a bit like overkill - what do You do to get your kick just right?
 
Here is the article:  http://www.mixedbymarcmozart.com/2014/10/02/mixing-kicks-real-kick-drums-808-909-subkicks-mix/
 
 

For some genres it makes life a little easier. I had to do that for a mix of one of . My son's songs . He used a very sub heavy kick that totally sounded fine in his headphones but was overwhelming on speakers capable of such frequencies. He only had the stems with him so we were kind of stuck. By splitting the kick into three, I could pull the sub back some yet keep some of the extreme lows required for the genre. I also was able to use a transient shaper and eq to create a more defined sound in upper and mid bass ranges. Would never go through this each time but it is a good technique to know.

I don't do much work on kick drum on my tracks but Saltline has recently released Korzenie kick, a free kick drum creator VST synthesizer plugin for Windows.
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I've been processing the 'In' and 'Out' mics in BFD for several years.
 
You can really home in on the beater click and the 'meat' separately.

I will clone tracks, and then treat them differently, and bus them. But it's the exception and not the rule. When I do it, it's usually a snare.

soens
I just look for the right sample. It's already out there... somewhere.

When you find can you tell me what it is?

Obviously there are no hard rules...
If it sounds good... it is good
 
All that said, if you have to "massage" the kick THAT much to make it work, (IMO) the source sound isn't right.
Always best to get the sound right (up front) when recording.  IOW, A kick drum sound that works in context.

• Good kick drum
• Decent mics that are positioned well
• Decent acoustic space in which to record the drum/s

Recording and mixing acoustic drums is one of the hardest tasks for a home studio (especially true if the engineer is a novice).  Read up and arm yourself with some basic knowledge of what mics to use... and where to place them.
Jump in and start recording.  The more you record, the better you'll get at all the above.
 

The greatest dance songs have special kick fx's (hip hop), imho.  (Last night I skated-danced to hip-hop 'feeling' such excellence in the kick-beatz)
 
For me the kick IS the most important percussive and requires all kinds of TLC.  Fortunately, many bass drums (beside Superior, Addictive drums, etc.) have been sampled and polished to 'near' perfection in Sonar X, already.