how to squash 2 buss without squashing 2 buss!!

Was working on a song and got it sounding good. Had ozone on the master. Starting adjusting levels of individual drums and noticed I wasn't hearing the results. So, I checked ozone on the limiter was killing everything. Like maybe 16db of gain reduction. So I brought back all the levels, but obviously when they're not slamming the limiter the feel and color of the sounds changes quite a bit. So I started over and tried to find what was making me like the squashed mix better. So I looked at the drums that were triggering the huge gain reductions and then I side chained some of the other tracks to these drums, since in my oversquashed mix, everything was getting affected by these hits.

Anyways, been chasing my tail for hours and can't get it to feel quite right. Wondering if you guys have any tips for keeping some of the color and feel of squashing your 2 buss, but without squashing your 2 buss :)

how to squash 2 buss without squashing 2 buss!!