Basil, takes the crown as always... :clap: this has been very much debated over here, and mind u there is no 1 way only of doing things...

Anyways also on the bass (and I'm just talking bass not the kick)... use a little bit of a plug in called maxxbass.. this adds a synthesized harmonic 2 the fundamental ... thus pushing yer bassline into a more hearable range, this way it will sound "loud" and defined in yer mix with out u having 2 swamp the all thing with extreme low freq eq gain!

PS - if u lower the amount of "treble" u get the feeling of more bass7 phatness!

Z