So there's been a new and very disappointing turn of events.
I made some rough mixes of songs I'm working on, and took them over to the studio where I'm going to have them mixed. MY GOD, they sound awful. The bottom end was boomy and overpowering, the high end disappeared, and instruments that were dominant were EQ'd into the background. I was actually embarrassed by the product I'd brought in!
I KNOW this studio sounds good, the culprit has to be the mix on my DAW.
These demos were mixed with my Beyerdynamic 990Pro headphones, and Sonarworks was on the Master Bus with the corresponding "headphone file" to compensate for BD's "flavour."
* and yes, I did remember to remove the Soundworks software from the bin before exporting.