It's generally only normal to scoop that range pretty heavily if there's something wrong. Could be your monitoring, or something else in your front-end/capture, or an aversion to those freqs you have developed, or that you simply don't like things to have body/size/weight/thickness.
Part of it is the arrangement of instruments/parts/register of course, but otherwise i think it's as "wise" as saying "it's better to cut with EQ than to boost".
How does 1k sound to you? Like midrange ass? Cut it. 500hz? Boxy and ass. Cut it. 4-5k? Shrill, harsh and... ass. Cut it. 150hz? ...
Ahhh.. finally. Silence.
