How do i make my music louder without reducing quality

Whats helped me was bussing all of the intruments to one bus, the kick straight to the master chain and the bass to its own buss. Process each buss differently using compression, saturation, etc. on the master chain add a limiter and a EQ that can cut the lows out of the mid and side.

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Keep your mixes low, so when you master, you have plenty of headroom, and any bad frequencies that you didnt catch wont be pumped up.
 
Try using a clipping plugin before the limiter like standard clip or kclip. This will cut down some of the transients but still maintain the punch. You can then try a limiter after to get even louder.
 
Panning to make things wider, limiters, compression, EQ'n the master (be careful with all of these). There's plug ins like Izotope out there. There's a plug in called OTT that I've seen a few homies use on their master buses as well.
 
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