word up rob_one & the resta the fam.
Reason is meant for making music, more to the creative side of things, not really anything else to do with the technical part of sound. It has compressors & stuff, which you should use mildy. but depending on what you are using the song for, there are different approcahes (in my humble OPINION). Many ways to kill a cat, or skin a cow, wateva.
Yeah...
if its not anything serious, just a beat for the fellas to kick a free to, use the M_Cla** suite. It'll do the job, loud as u want as long as u dont clip. The compressor and maximizer will be your best friends here.
Next level, if your mixing is tight enough within reason, export it as a stereo track with very light compression or none at all, and definately no limiter. Put it on your DAW and use a nice multiband compressor and a limiter.
Then for pro level stuff, export each track seperately, import into you DAW and mix, compress gently, and send it to a mastering engineer.
hope that helps. good luck
and P.S, as trompie said "I know this may take a while and practice,"
Couldnt have said it better, you will get better after every mix, every day, for as long as you do it. Im still on the way, & will get there, when i look back at my first tracks on fruityloops3, i laugh.
Much luv!