Help! :) ...Mixing backing vocals + instrumental for performance

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Ok here's what I'm attempting to do:
-I have spliced together 2 beats (from J5 ;)) which are commercial beats, so they're already compressed to the max n watnot (and the individual instruments are NOT separate)
-the 1st part will be just a beat with no backing vocals, then the 2nd part will switch to another beat and have 2 sets of backing vocals panned to 60% on each side left/right
-the idea is when I perform with it, my live vocals will sit in the middle of the mix, with the backing vocals on either side (so it sounds like a group of me rapping :))

...some ideas I've had from ppl are to:
1) On the main channel - add limiter + compressor
2) reduce the instrumental channel to -3db (so the backing vocals dont get drowned out)
3) on the 2 x backing vocal channels - add panning and compression

...problem I've had with this is the 1st part of the song (w/out backing vocals) seems louder than the 2nd part (with backing vocals)... the instrumentals seem to lose their punch...

Anyone got any ideas? hope I explained it clearly enough... :)

P.S. i would attach a sample but am at currently at work :(
 
The compressor on the main channel is turning up the first part without backing vocals and turning it all down when the backup vocals start in. Take the compressor off the master buss and just compress the backups by themself.
 
thanks for that... yeah i ended up reducing the instrumental -1.5db and compressing the backing vocals as u said... :)
 
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