I recorded a show last night at a small club/bar, and the bass drum was really heavy in the mix...to the point that it almost distracts from everything else. One school of thought would be to just capture the show as it sounded and not mess with it. Putting that aside for the sake of discussion, is there a way to de-emphasize that bass drum in post? My first thought was trying to EQ it down, but that seems like it would "cannibalize" the bass guitar when it's in the same frequency range (and ironically, the bass guitar was relatively low in the mix so I don't think I can afford to take anything away from it). So then I thought maybe compression could be used to bring the other sounds up closer to the level of the bass drum, somewhat offsetting how loud the bass drum is. I have basically zero experience with compression, though, so I don't even know if that's feasible.
FWIW, this is just a two-channel recording (DPA 4061s). Any ideas/thoughts appreciated.