SO if you don't know what an EQ or a compressor are, its always a good time to learn. These two tutorials explain it better than any others I've seen so I thought I'd post em up here.
I'd do a brief explanation of them here but I can't explain it nearly as well so I suggest you sit down for 10 minutes and read these haha. More or less though your EQ and your Compressor are the two most important tools you have, period. Learn them, and love them.
EQ Tutorial:
http://www.dnbscene.com/article/88-thinking-inside-the-box-a-complete-eq-tutorial/1
Compression Tutorial:
http://www.dnbscene.com/article/1474-compress-to-impress-a-complete-compression-tutorial