Thought you might be interested to hear about a new ebook guide to mastering I've recently released on getthatprosound.com.
This is the sixth one in the series, and I was determined to demystify some of the aspects of mastering that can trip up new (and even more experienced) producers.
As ever, it was a huge amount of work to make it truly worthy of the 'ultimate' tag, so do check it out if you're struggling with any aspect of the mastering process.
Anyway, an interesting thing that came out of the writing was the opportunity to re-evaluate my own mastering methods and how I chain plugins and settings together for mastering. For example, I've got into using dual limiters one after the other at the end of the chain, each with gentler settings than you might use with a single limiter, which can produce equal or even louder/punchier results with more transparency. As always, it's all about the subtle accumulation of effects
So I thought this might be a good time to start a discussion about mastering approaches, which plugins people are using most for their own mastering, which processes they do or don't touch during mastering (e.g. some are happy to use stereo and harmonic enhancement or colourful saturation when mastering, others prefer to use these only when still mixing); any particular tips or techniques you swear by?
Cheers everyone!
Do you not use compression that often because you're working mostly with electronic music that is already relatively heavily compressed?
) - These days less is more 
