I recently purchased the "Guitar Tracks" program by Cakewalk and have been using it to record acoustic guitar and vocals for the past week or so. My setup is as follows: AMD K6-2 (400 MHz), Yamaha 724 soundcard, Peavey Ecoustic 112 amp, Audix OM3xb mic, LR Baggs Para Acoustic DI preamp. So far I have had great results sending my guitar through the preamp into the amp and taking a balanced signal from the back of the amp (XLR) through an impedance converter and into the soundcard. The amp has two channels which each have 5 band graphic equalizers. One of the channels has an XLR input and I have been running the mic into it and out the back through the balanced XLR output and into the soundcard. So far I haven't found a good mix for the vocals yet. The sound coming out of the amp is pretty good. I use a little reverb and presence and I have the EQ basically set up in a smiley face formation. The sound that gets recorded doesn't sound very professional though. I have tried a few things in the software to polish it up and have had some success but I'm still not where I would like to be. So far the best thing I have come upon is to use a little reverb, a little delay, and to set the EQ in a smiley face formation imitating the way it is on my amp. I was looking for any suggestions on effects or EQ settings to get a fairly natural yet polished sound on my vocals. I don't want anything that sounds really processed. All of the factory preset effects for vocals in the software are a little too wet for my tastes. Okay, I know this is already a really long post, but while I'm at it if someone could throw some tips in on backing vocals I would appreciate it as well. So far my attempts have produced what sounds like I'm just doubling up on the original track. Should I pan one or both?, volume differences?, effect differences? By the way, if you've made it this far, thanks for taking the time to read all of this.