Compression on your mix bus and mastering

It's my master chain... which i mix through (LPF/HPF and 2x saturation included in master chain too).

whatever works for ya...i prefer to keep my master buss pretty clean when mixing, but different strokes for different folks

i'll usually stick a decent plug-in comp. on there and turn it on from time to time with 2-3db compression just to see how things sound with a little squishing, but 90% of the time i go with nothing on the master