Balancing levels?

Finding it tricky to find a balance for levels between songs as I transition to and fro (using trinity).

Quite often I find that the MD (all drums, but the kick in particular) gets a bit lost and no matter how much I crank it, it still doesn’t cut through.

This is probably a problem with how I initially balance things when I build the songs.

I end up adding a sampled kick with OT to give the MD kick more beef.

I’m pretty new to this so I don’t use much compression or master fx on MD mix.

Anyone having similar woes or could dish out a few pointers?

Thanks!