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Actually, I'm going to say that EQ is your friend, not compression or limiting. 
While the latter can give you volume, they aren't necessarily gong to address frequency issues, why I highly suggest you spend at least a year using EQ's only rather than trying to use compression, or even incorporation the mastering stage into the mixing stage by compressing or limiting the mix output - you're only going to colour the output again, so how will you learn the art of good mixing?
Listen to the frequency content, especially when mixing two or more instruments together, and try to space them apart by reducing buildups and overlaps. This will often give you a few extra dB's of loudness, all while addressing frequency problems such as muddiness as well. Highpass highpass highpass.
Yes, as mzvirbulis said, it takes time, but I really recommend you focus on EQ rather than diving into the compression and limiting. Of course, not everyone is going to have the same preferences of where to start, but I really wish I had done more EQ'ing during the first years of my 'career'.
Of course, the previous posts all have their place too, mix compression controlling the levels and bringing the instruments in tighter, and limiting just giving you sheer loudness, but I really can't stress the importance of EQ enough.
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. Best advice I can give you for remixing is something I lots of times do when I jsut cant get a clean mix. I turn all the instruments down to zereo, then slowly raise each one, no compression, keep raising them until you jsut start to go into the red, then you should be good for loudness through a compressor.
