It can also help to compare your masters to albums by artists who you find yourself similar to in style and sound and use that as a reference point to. While you're learning to do it, burn some CDs or mp3s or whatever and take those mixes to your car or put them on your phone or wherever you like to listen to music and use them as reference points. Mastering is an art form all of its own and takes patience and practice. Meters are great to give you perspective but trust your ears during the mastering process and take frequent breaks for a few minutes as it's very easy to get carried away with compression or try to use multi-band compression as EQ plus, you can quickly suffer from ear fatigue so keep your ears fresh. The advantage of doing it this way is that you have better control over what you're doing and can apply more compression as needed to mids and/or highs without having the lows causing the higher frequencies to "pump" or "breathe." Generally with rock and roll, I like to use more limiting than compression on lows, more subtle compression on highs and go a bit heavier in the mids but that's just my approach. In a nutshell, multi-band compression is like taking the stereo mix, running each channel though a crossover to split it into highs, mids and lows (or even more bands if you want to get really tweaky), compressing the bands independently then mixing and saving that output as a separate stereo master. Ideally, you would use multi-band compression. I've never used Garage Band, but I do know a thing or two about mastering.
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