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Well, if I were you, I would start by trying to imagine how you want the sound to sound like...
For example, you can have the case of very tom-like/pitchy drums... It can be so pitchty that it sounds a bit thin (the transient sound level is quite high but the volume of this sound decreases too fast in simple words)...
In that case you could use compression to make the whole a bit more even, a bit thicker. Where you will put your threshold will mostly depend on your ear. It can make the lowest levels and the highest ones closer if you decreases it.
The rest is really up to your ears, and monitoring system. Actually once you know the basics, it's about training and the monitoring environment.
As far as Bus compression... usually a light one to ease off some transients and get rid of "too much" depth (what people call "glueing").
Easing off the transients might enable to make the whole louder at the mastering stage (since it will give you more headroom).
Well I say that because I guess you are making your tracks louder yourself.
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