Enter longtime Hotline pal and sound designer/engineer Botley, who reached out last week about doing exactly the kind of thing I was thinking of doing, but doing it much better than I think I would have been able to pull off. Read his in-depth analysis of the Pretty Hate Machine remaster here - it gets kind of technical, but hopefully you dig that sort of thing. From filtering to limiting to pre-gaps and crossfades, he pretty much covers all the bases.