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Okay, so I'm doing this kind of "big synth" style drop for once and I like what I have so far except that I want to add more thickness to the lower part of my synth. Here's what I have:

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as most of you probably already know the key to big synth/seven lions w.e styled drops are layering the synths. I like what I have for the chords' highs and mids but the lower end synth I wanna make it more aggressive and thick. any ideas?

Right now it's a triple saw a lot of voices and very small amount of detune running through a double notch filter thats being automated by a LFO very slightly to give it some movement. (pretty simple, nothing spectacular)
For FX I have trash for distortion, camelphat, little bit of sausage fattener, then fabfilter saturn to help it sound a little less digital/more analog warmness. And then of course the rudimentary eqing of bad frequencies and compression

It's hard to describe how I want the low end to sound but I want it to kind of stick out a bit and not just thicken up the chords.

To be honest, I'd smash the supersaws you have now into a limiter or something, if you want that 'big synth'. Then I'd layer a distorted saw wave underneath it, maybe some orchestral layer aswell to make it sound really full and warm. Did it in this tune:
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It's old though, but decent enough example

In terms of thickening everything you need more layers in the chords as blinkesko said, the highs seem lacking and maybe add more width. I'd then layer a distorted low passed saw and a thick sub under them, both of these set to mono.

thanks guys! I'm gonna do a combination of both of what you posted

I would layer it with a touch of white noise, play more (higher) notes in the chord, and then throw a dimension expander on it... the one from here is good: http://www.xferrecords.com/freeware/