punchy bass drum, snappy snare, shimering overheads
if you want to fatten up the kicks, you can compress, you want to compress the meat of the kick,you can set the compression at around 1:10
to really hear it working then lower it to taste(less is more)and further emphasize the whack by increasing the attack time,longer attack times let more of the thwack.same with snare compression ratio is how much the track gets squished threshhold is at what volume the squishing starts...-6 threshhold squeezes any peaks that are at -6 db or more up to loudest,0 db.
so....you can compress to get more oomph out of sounds
heres how you compress individual drums in a drum track(a whole kit on one track)
eq find the frequencies you want to compress,(the low part of the kick,the snap of the snare,the crispness of the cymbals)raise the levels of these frequencies about 6 db (watch your meters)then compress at -6 threshhold or lower-10 at around 1:5 lower or higher use your ears go back and increase or decrease eq levels etc...then you can pick what part of the sound gets the most compressed or set the threshold high and only compress the peaks.
whew compression, the steriods of sound.
p.s. 80's drums? just compress alot 1:12 ratio short attack(let a little snap through) low threshhold around-14 db and pour on some big verb man!!!