I'm very sad, recovering from hernia surgery, so all the (modest) gains I've made from exercising these last 6 months are gonna be gone by the time I recover. oh well, nothing to be done about it.
I emailed Jake, and no, he had nothing to do with the song. I'd copy the email, but I'm on my phone and I gotta go get painful surgery in a few minutes, so it'll have to wait.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. A lot of people just think of mastering as "smash the crap out of the track".
Which, sadly, for the case of many "re-mastered" albums, is more or less what they did.
I generally try to shoot for an RMS or dynamic range level when limiting. TT dynamic range meter is a good tool for this purpose.
As for master bus compressors, I never use em. But people who do generally say you just want to be tickling the gain reduction. You'll want to mix into a bus compressor from the start, putting it on at the end kinda defeats the purpose.
I don't have the modder's genes myself, but I'd happily pay someone to make me one. Something tells me it might be more comfortable than an actual N64 controller.