I am having trouble figuring out why my vocals are being drowned by my beat

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Hi all I am new to both the sound industry and to sound effects. The people I work with are more experienced and have given me some recommendations, but wanted to get some advice from this board as well.

I am planning on recording a song. First we'll be recording all the instruments, and then we'll be recording the sung vocals.

Hey I'm recording my vocals over instrumentals that were imported in such a way that the whole beat is on 1 track (so its a lot harder to manipulate)

Ok, so I recorded a song for my band, but the vocals, in my opinion, don't fit in very well with the rest of the mix.. I don't know its hard to explain, but here, listen to the song and please let me know what I need to improve on. Thanks!

I record using Sony sound forge on my laptop. At the moment I'm using a Behringer ultravoice mic pluged into the input of my ultragain pro then the output is going straight into my laptop mic in.
Im pretty sure that is wrong and the mic should be the output but i dont seem to have any way of doing that with the leads i have.

Hello Everyone,
I have been trying to find out how to make backing vox sound as if they were sorrounding me. I hear it in a lot of hip hop tracks and i would like to do the same to pop, r&b and gospel songs. My question is how can i make the backing vox seem as if the are coming literally out of the speakers and sitting in front of my face. Like as if the sound was in 3D.

Hi. I don't know even how to search for this...my apologies.

Every recording/mix setup is probably a bit different. I've been advised by mixing engineers to be cautious with the compression while recording, because once it's done, it's done. But my experience has been that my Avalon 737 is more transparent than any compressor I can apply during the mix in Pro Tools.

I know, you're supposed to record opera singers in acoustically perfect concert halls, but I'm on a budget and all I have is my 8 x 10 home studio which doubles as both a control room and a live room. My goal is to record live vocals over pre-recorded orchestra karaoke tracks to famous soprano arias.

How do you deal with a nasal sounding speaker? Is there a certain frequency range that can be tweaked to fix it without damaging the timbre of the voice? I had a real problem with this on the weekend. The vocal was really nasally and hard to handle. I have an awesome chart listing fundamental frequencies and the frequency ranges for warmth, tin, mud, etc, but nothing for "nasally vocals".