I don't think your problem is protein, it sounds like it's lack of calories in general. A high carb diet is protein sparing by nature so theoretically the more carbs you eat the less protein you need as your body won't be using it for anything other than building muscle. Eating a shitload of protein and not enough fats and carbs is pointless. Whatever energy your body can't get from carbs or fat it will take from the protein so it ends up only getting what is left over anyways.
Protein is more important while cutting than it is while bulking. You have to keep protein high while dieting because you aren't eating enough calories in general to spare the protein thus you need as much as you can get. While bulking and in a hypercaloric state your body will choose the path of least resistance for energy needs, that being carbs, and it will leave all of the protein you eat for repair.
So as I said in the beginning it sounds like you were so worried about protein intake that you didn't get enough calories in general. While bulking I think 2x bodyweight is overkill, 1.5 is probably all you really need so long as you are getting plenty of carbs and good fats. I think 50/25/25 carbs/pro/fat is a great ratio to start out with. You are about 200 pounds so I'd say BMR is probably 3000+. So on a good cycle you need to eat probably 4500-5000 calories to get some good growth. That'd be 625g carbs, 313g protein and 139g fat. 300+ protein is plenty and I'd say if you wanted to go higher then no more than 400, that'd still leave 500+ of carbs.
I think people get on this low carb craze with diets and try to apply the same logic with bulking and unfortunately it doesn't cut it. If you want to grow you have to eat and you need to eat carbs to spare your protein. A bulking diet that is high in protein and has too little carbs just turns protein into expensive energy. Face it, to get big you have to eat big and be prepared to put on a little fat. If you never want to lose your abs while bulking then it is going to take a very long time to put on quality weight. To keep your bodyfat low at the end of a bulk cycle you need to get your bodyfat as low as possible to begin with. I am dieting down right now with this exact plan in mind. I hope to get around 8% and then keep it the rest of the summer. Then this fall/winter I will do an 8 week bulk cycle and I'm guessing I probably won't go back over 12% which I can handle.