Bristol_Jonesey
I like to build my mix up from the loudest section first.
This way there will always be enough headroom for the rest of the song.
There is nothing more annoying than crafting a mix from the beginning only to have to lower all your faders once you encounter a loud section.
Yeah - that style of mixing works for really good me - sort of like gain staging. Dial all the track gains in with the meters on pre-fade for about -6db peak max on average with all faders at unity. Then switch to post-fader metering and you can safely use your ear.