Stroke/beat sound ideas

[gynephilos]

I'm having trouble deciding how to proceed with my production. My music selection is bass-heavy and it is quite difficult to include a bass drum beat sound. I personally am not a huge fan of the high-pitched clap sound that is used as an alternative in some productions.

Any ideas how to overcome this? Are there good examples of productions combining bass-heavy music with a good beat sound?

[Fashion Technique]

I remember 'Strip softcore', hard pattern has instruction 'follow the rhythm' only
No special sound
Beatmeter breaks the melody often, so I must choose one to follow

Sound must be soft and not annoying
But u can experiment like dj with some bells or rings etc, just make them 'soft'