As a general rule of thumb, bypass all EQ before printing VSTi's or consolidating tracks for a mixing engineer. There are rare occassions where you might be doing some extreme processing where the radical EQ you do might be an integral part of the sound whereby the sound just doesn't sound like the right sound without it. And of course, there are times when you might track through an EQ (vocals, guitar, etc.) and you really know what you are doing. Otherwise, please don't add EQ for me to fight when I'm trying to make your record sound like a hit
Same general rule goes for compression.