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rather than get into a lengthy discussion about acoustics or microphone selection, or vocal technique, i'm going to take an angle that i don't think many people will take..
if the vocal isn't sitting in the mix right, try doing most of the vocal processing first - mute the majority (or even all) of the tracks and work on the vocal eq, compression, and effects, and get the voice sounding as good as possible (keeping in mind you'll have to tweak it more later, so don't spend forever on it).
then, bring in the mix around it, rather than trying to push it into the mix. you'll almost certainly find that you'll need to go back and make more tweaks. After the vocal is tweaked you probably want to bring in the drums and bass, and then fill in everything else around it.
ideally, you'll get a great sounding recording, but if push comes to shove - try this approach. i know of several top engineers who routinely mix the vocals early in the mix, rather than near the end.
good luck
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