Quote Originally Posted by audioinjection
I always compress my overall track, I love how it sounds, it phattens it up nicely, but be careful w/ compression.

I usually compress ratio: 4 or 5 and -10 threshold w/ a quick attack and release.
Be careful with compression huh :) 5:1 ratio and -10dB threshold really don't sound careful to me.. but then, the settings always depend on multiple things like the genre and of course the track itself.

I rarely compress the overall track, but tend to use compression on each individual channel. If I do, it's usually something like 1.4:1 ratio (that's 1 point four to one, not fourteen :)) and 3-5dB threshold.. I like dynamics, usually I just use a limiter with a really small threshold just to cut a wee slice off the most hardest hits (-1.0dB to -2.0dB..)