First off... sorry, but I can not post any material featuring the actual album content. I'm barley allowed to post the video which only contains audio from the video-camera mic, and I will probably need to take it down for a while now since they have decided that they're going to do a video for the first track. They are afraid people will get sick of the song before the video is made public if this one stays on youtube any longer, so...
Best way to check out mix/master difference is to ask a mastering studio if they can do a test-master for you. The differences sometimes can be very small, and sometimes very dramatic and it all varies greatly from project to project.
Jonas did a great job with the mix of course, so my mission was just to beef it all up. In a lot of cases with less experienced producers and engineers you need to adress mix problems, which in turn make lesser masters... so nothing of that kind here. He delivered a slightly compressed and limited mix, which is fine when you know what you're doing and when it's essential for the mix to "sit" right musically. It's much easier to master when you have something to work with that already sounds good, so sending something to mastering totally clean of any bus processing might not be what you want (although alot of people claim that the mix bus should be rid of anything when sent to mastering, which is total BS.. IMHO).
There is a combination of digital limiting and analog clipping (clipping converters which is mistaken for "digital clipping", but you're actually clipping an analogue stage before the conversion...). Gear used is very dependent on the mix and genre, the main thing is to find the combination of limiters and clipping that works best for the project, and that can be one of the most time consuming processes in mastering today.
I felt the mix needed a bit more compression so the C2 is just touching it like half a db since Jonas had already compressed it somewhat, and I also had to brighten it up a bit with a combination of NSEQ-2 and Algorithmix LP. I needed to high-pass at 24Hz or something and added a little boost at 80Hz like half a db to fatten up the bass and guitar low-end. I also implemented a light multiband to keep low-end intact for double-bass parts that kind of became a bit too overbearing.
