First Mix in Reaper

[pauli]

Ahhh thanks, I was considering doing the same. I'm not even remotely surprised either, because my low end monitoring is probably useless below 100 Hz because my room is poorly treated. I wonder if I have a subconscious tendency to let more low-mid through than is appropriate to compensate for the lack of bass provided by my subwoofer (a cheap ported subwoofer, at that )

That also explains why my "bass" sounds so much louder than yours on my end, and this is actually extremely helpful because I get a lot of comments on undercooked bass, but this is considerably more clarifying!

I'm actually in the planning stages of rigging up some DIY bass traps and wall panels... it's obviously not going to completely solve the issue but hopefully will improve things.

Thanks a bunch, I really appreciate it!