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Mostly you should be concerned with avoiding clipping and unintended distortion, because those are very hard to deal with.
The only thing I ever use compression on when tracking is vocals. My method is fast attack, short release, about a 6:1 ratio, and only compressing by about 3-4 dB, depending on the dynamics of the singer. The fast settings and high ratio insure sure that you're only hitting the peaks, and you're not going to affect the sound very much.
I mixed a song last weekend that was tracked by some silly hippies, and just about everything was clipped. Drums, bass, vocals, etc. It was a pain in the ass. Also the original tracks had been cut up and looped for the song...without any fades...GRR! I just had to batch fade most of the tracks and tweak anything that I actually heard.
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