It may be that your highs are a bit aggressive. There's a good basic concept to remember when using any kind of EQ, and that is to use subtractive, not additive EQ whenever you can. That means if you need to have a bit more midrange, then drop the highs as well as the lows a bit. The effect will be as if you had raised the mids.
What will also happen with this approach is that you will not be adding to the noise floor even though you are "raising" the mids. Its a distinction you will hear clearly in the recording.