@Raj 485875 wrote:

Mastering is something best learnt by experimentation – trying things and seeing how they sound – dont be afraid to do nothing to a track – sometimes it is not possible to do anything to a track apart from normalise the levels that makes it sound better. Dont think that you have to use an effect on it just because everyone else does – using effects for the sake of it results in shoddy music

Just so long as you save the project between “experiments”, I’d go along with that. It is not a very nice feeling to take somebody elses work and turn it into garbage irreversibly.