Playing my song as MP3 on MacBook speakers

I know the MacBook speakers are notoriously bad for listening to, well, anything, but most MP3s (from a band like U2, for example) sound OK. You can at least hear everything in the mix even though it sounds tinny.
Well, I'm listening to some of the songs I recorded in GB and exported as MP3s into iTunes and you can barely hear the bass in them. They sound fine with headphones/car speakers, but hollow playing on my MacBook. I'm not sure how much I should turn up/double the bass tracks because then it'd be too loud on headphones/car speakers. What should I do? Thanks.

Bump (sorry)
Basically I just need to know how I should mix the bass (dB levels, etc.)/double tracking so that I can hear it on a common device like my MacBook speakers.

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