Mixing / Levelling / Mastering.

[championanwar]

Accomplishing a good mix? We can probably tell the difference between a track mixed/mastered well and one that isn't. .

Now for me this is quite complicated and there are probably many ways to do it, but I'm looking to now polish off a lot of my tunes to get the full "throttle" out of them, so now I come to you lot. I'm not the best in terms of mastering and all that jive, I mean I level it and pan it how I think sounds best > EQ everything once over then the whole thing if need be > Do a little comrpession on top of it all.

I don't really know what else [if there is anything] to do. Does my setup matter? I have my Monitors/Speakers on the other side of the room to me, so it's not that close to me when I'm playing the keyboard or generally editing as a whole. Does that change anything?

So I ask this, when it comes to it, is there a Specific way to master? Does the genre count? [breakcore style mastering / ambient style mastering?]. I did a bit of studying on this when I started my sound design course at college but it was only a touch, we'll probably get into it later on in the course but I want to get cracking sooner rather than later. .

Yep, that's about it. . Any help/tips? =3