i will often use brickwall limiters,
not as brick wall limiting,
but as color.....
if you set the level just right,
where the meters hardly even move,
but trust your ears, to hear the change, it will bring the overall level of the track up.......
you can set it so it will bring up lower levels, sort of like a compressor,
but it's different with the way it colors and effects the signal.
IF your track is clean, with nice headroom,
the use of a limiter this way will not bring up the noise floor to a degree where it impacts the mix.
i have used this technique across sub busses, such as vox, drums, guitars and keys