Personally, I mostly work in FlStudio 10 and try to rely heavily on using my analog synths (its hard when there are so many awesome soft synths including my own ). My monitors are Behringer truth B023a's (certainly not the best near fields, but not the worst either.. they are flat and respond down to 50hz or so). I try to monitor at around 77Db SPL most of the time. I have kinda grown lazy with using the Bob Katz K-System, but when im really trying I will sync 77Db Spl with zero DB on my Dorrough meter and with -14db on my digital peak meter (in the DAW). When Im lazy I usually peak my drums at around -10DbD and end up with a final mix that is peaking at somewhere between -4db or -7db. I generally work in 24bit 96khz unless im gonna be destroying my cpu, in which case I will work in 24bit 48khz. When I mix, these days, usually I start with separate channels for the main kick, silent kick (for side chaining),  snare/clap (or plural), hats and percs (all of the other percussion). If I use breaks, I usually cut them up and they go to a channel of their own. All of these drum channels get merged into a main drum buss.Sometimes I will have sub busses for Kick/Snare or for other things. generally the main drum buss has no compression or very little, Each drum gets treated individually. After the drums, I usually have a bass and a sub bass to compliment it. The sub almost always gets sidechained from the silent kick and many times so does the regular bass if I cant shave enough of its low end off to get it to sit with the kick. With all instruments, I generally have a channel strip that is two high resolution parametric EQs.. one that has a high and a low shelf and another for molding the signal to fit with other instruments. I may or may not have a compressor on the channel. I use the high and low shelves to prune the instruments to only the frequencies that are really audible. Usually the low shelf is just below the fundamental of the lowest note.. and the high shelf is usually somewhere between 10hkz or 16 khz so the high frequency harmonics dont clash with the hats.   Usually once the Bass and drums are mixed.. everything else is easy. I use the spectrum analyzer in Izotope ozone to help me along the way in finding space for each instrument.  As for the Master Buss (2buss) I dont usually have any processing as this will be handled at the mastering stage. Sometimes I will put shelves on the master buss, just to clean up any low or high crap, but it's usually unnecessary if I have processed my channels cleanly.