In relaion to dynamics (compression, and gating)

use automation to drive small changes durign the music to make eveyrthing having it's own space.

make an overall panning where eveyrthing has it's own space in the mix similar to what you would hear live.

use ambisonics if you are mixing in stereo whenever possible.

make sure you follow an hierarchycal order according to the meaningfulness of an instrument in the orchestration to choose the levels.

making sure that each instrument doesn't occuppy the space of each other and everything has space on the mix.

every mixing process as a sequential order īy different mixing I understand the following.

doing everything pretty slow and using critical reasoning to judge your output.

doing differential mixing in order to give space to every single instrument in the mix.

mix every siingle parameter of the music in quite a structure way.

In order to blend vocals with muse you should apply a couple of principles:

You question is actually a pretty relevant and meaningful one.

How to mix vocals with instrumentals