Need help with voiceover multiband compressor setting

Hi there,
I produce a national talk radio and TV program, and we often do voiceover for various commercials, spots, underwriting, etc. I've been running them through the "broadcast" preset in the multiband compressor, but have been told by a couple of people that it's too bassy and isn't sounding good on their end. While it sounds ok on my end, since this has been mentioned by several people, I'd like to change it.
Is there a better multiband compressor preset either already in audition or that someone could tell me how to create that would sound better for what i'm trying to do?Again, from the ones that are already in the multiband compressor, broadcast is the closest to what i want, but isn't quite it...
Best,
David

If the compressed sound itself is okay, then probably the easiest thing to do is to EQ the result, rather than play about with the compression. What you really need to do though is to get yourself a monitoring system that sounds the same as the one the clients are using!
Generally when people produce bass-heavy sound, it's because they are monitoring on something woefully small, with no real bass response. So you produce sound that sounds okay on your computer monitors, or whatever and inevitably the file sounds bass-heavy on a more neutral system.
None of us here could tell you what would be better settings, or what EQ to use, simply because we haven't heard any of the offending sound. If you post a sample, we could at least listen to it on a neutral system (I have 3!) and tell you what we think might improve it.

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