I've watched a couple of tutorials on "pseudo mastering" and gave it a try. I used the exciter and stereo spread plug-ins to good effect. However, when I tried to make my track louder, it also made the kick, bass guitar and toms significantly louder than they were in the original mix. Why? Am I doing something wrong with the "mastering", or is there something wrong with my mix?
I tried making it louder using both the adaptive limiter and the gain plug-in, same problem with each one.
A related problem is I can't find a comprehensive guide for how to do this sort of amateur mastering in logic. Just a couple of youtube videos, and all the articles I've found are really vague.
Thanks for any help you can give!