batsbrew
jesse,
you SHOULD have a reason to compress and/or limit that snare!!
 
the idea with mixing,
is that it is YOUR job to make each individual track behave.
 
either by eq, compression, simple track volume and/or panning, or all of the above.
 
and it depends on the style of music,
and the way each track was recorded.
 
if for example, you recorded a guy hitting a snare by himself, in a room, with one mic,
and the mic is close,
it will respond being recorded completely differently, and playback differently, than if the mic was 5 feet away.
 
 
YOU have to decide how dynamic something needs to be,
to be mixed properly.
 
that's the trickiest part of mixing, in my opinion,
being able to make THE RIGHT CALL.