I am reading the manual from Izotope's Ozone, which I really like, by the way, and on page 12, it states

"The bass will typically be under-represented on small studio monitors".

This reinforces one point made here as to why my bass is always too loud. I make the bass sound good on those monitors and it is too hot for anywhere BUT those monitors. Point noted and filed away in my aging memory bank.

Now to practice with their compression tools.

It's funny how we get locked into a routine and that routine becomes akin to a horse wearing blinders. There are things in RB and Sonar that I never even noticed because I never had a reason to look for them. Someone mentioned grouping tracks so they can be adjusted at the same rate. I don't know how much I'd do that, but the point is I didn't even know I COULD create subgroups like that. So many threads have gone past that refer to some specific part of RB and I said "Real Band can DO that?" Need to experiment more and not get so focused on finishing a song in exactly 57 minutes (if you get what I mean). I call it "done" too soon.