You should be able to get a nice full wave recording to fill the track about 70% to 90%.

Below is an image of a song I did recently with vocals.



Notice the bottom orange colored track is the main vocal and the wave is quite full and comparable to the other tracks.

It would be interesting to see what your screenshots of the track view in your DAW look like.

If the track is nice and full looking like the pic I posted, then the other way to get the vocal to set in the mix better is to PULL EVERYTHING ELSE DOWN. Hey, not trying to be a smart alleck...I have to do that every now and then myself. I often put the vocals into the project last. Everything else is already there and the levels are set... pop in the vocals and you can't hear them. The only workable solution is to lower everything else.....and that works really well.

Now... if your vocal wave forms are flat lined and anemic looking, you are not recording with the mic correctly. You would need to determine what you need to do and how to get it there in order to get a solid, full signal level and a clean wave in the track. When I first started recording vocals and guitars, that's exactly the problem I had.... weak waves. It's a solvable issue.

A pic of your vocal waves would be really helpful at this point

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