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@Dooks-Fatberg
Just catching up on the mastering chat. I'm just slowly getting back into recording and as with 99% of everything I've done it'll be going up on Bandcamp and nowhere else.
To that end the extent of my mastering process is limited (arf) to so some very gentle Eq, compression and a limiter on the master bus. I always used Pro-Q and the Waves Fairchild "Lavyne mastering glue" and an L-1 (or similar). The trick for me is to manage my gain staging through the mix so that the master bus limiter isn't having to slam anything. It's effectively putting lid on the output at -3bd ish and perhaps a very gentle squash to bring the peak up to there.
My stuff is typically quite sparse, gently played acoustic, with lots of dynamic range in nature so it's kind of tricky to get the right level.