Puleeezzzzeeee. Just think as light of equipment as you can imagine.

I have a Beringer B-1 mic. I use a R16 Zoom recorder/interface. Dry.
No exterior effect units.

I leave BIAB dry), and (stop it...don't laugh...stop)DAW with MixPad.

I have other DAWs, but I'm not a tech guy and obviously not a mixing engineer. MixPad/WavePad are simpler, and I'm just learning about them. Certainly that could be part of the problem. I have the forward and pause down. Yes, I've watched the videos for the other DAWs, but they seem to jump from plug into power socket, right in the middle of mixing. It's beyond me. I find RB just as baffling. Even without the music side of things, it seems all I do, every day, is troubleshoot technology.

I apply reverb to all instrument tracks in MixPad. I can't get it right on vocals, though. They just become echo-y. And I'm just shooting in the dark for their settings, decay and diffuse, wet-dry. I don't have any reference point to begin with.

I've monkeyed around with EQ, so can do that a bit. I just started trying compression, high pass usually around 100hz, which seems to bring things into a reasonable level.

If I'm just to much of a beginner for you to even start with, no worries, I understand. But thanks for your comments and questions. Anything is helpful.

Andy

BIAB 2017 Ultra
Windows 8 and 10
Scarlet 18i8
Reaper and Mixpad