Immediately set Normalizer to -6dB for each track. With my setup, it puts the levels right at the -6 to -8 dB of available headroom in the Master channel.

I just make sure my kick is at -18dB, and then I go from there. Then some sort of bass and go 🙂
And then normal stuff like remove some 200 from kick to give room for bass, and remove some 350 in bass, so it again gives room for some lows from other things (and bass sounds like shit there)

And I saturate my masterchannel the moment I think I got something that works. Just to listen what a “full sound” will be like