Adding a bit more atmosphere to your drum beat.

[Pewter Robot]

Here's a cool technique I just found while experimenting a bit with my drums:
If your beat is sounding kind of simple, try sending the drum rack (the entire beat, not just one drum sound) to a return, putting reverb on the return (at 100% wet), and sidechain compressing that reverb to the kick. Bring the levels down until it sounds reasonable. I got really good results with that technique. I might post a before-and-after if you guys want to hear what I got with it.
I've also heard a techno song with a reverse reverb on the kick drum, and that gave it sort of a retro sound, so I encourage you to try experimenting with that as well (because I'm too lazy to go through all the resampling for that).

[Friv]

Here's a cool technique I just found while experimenting a bit with my drums:
If your beat is sounding kind of simple, try sending the drum rack (the entire beat, not just one drum sound) to a return, putting reverb on the return (at 100% wet), and sidechain compressing that reverb to the kick. Bring the levels down until it sounds reasonable. I got really good results with that technique. I might post a before-and-after if you guys want to hear what I got with it.
I've also heard a techno song with a reverse reverb on the kick drum, and that gave it sort of a retro sound, so I encourage you to try experimenting with that as well (because I'm too lazy to go through all the resampling for that).

Yes, bussing all of your drums to the same reverb give it a much better and more natural sounding effect. Another great trick is to change the velocities up on your drum hits, it makes a great difference, especially on hats and percussion.