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Originally Posted by mgthefuture  Alright, i think it's about time I nail this compression problem of mine on the head once and for all now.
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I'll answer your question and I hope this helps:
In Mastering, compression is used to make the track louder and to glue the mix together. All in all, my main focus is loudness but not slam the dynamics of the song. So here's how you do this.
You use a mastering compressor (very important), you set it like this:
Slow attack, Fast Release to shave off the peaks.
Ratio of 2:1 and lower so that it doesn't reduce the gain so much and too fast.
Set the threshold so that it goes at max -1db or possibly -1.5db gain reduction (on the VU), depending.
Set the Makeup Gain to 1 or 1.5, depending on the gain reduction.
This will shave off some of the transients and will be less hard on your limiter.
I really hope this helps... It is about the ears and the song but I'm just trying to set you in the right direction.