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I know that feeling well - when your sampled sounds are obviously higher quality than your own recordings. Your gear shouldn't be the weak link - although i don't see any mention of a great compressor? That might be a missing link?
You have to solve all the issues at every point in the chain:
room noisefloor
room acoustics
mic placement
performance
preamp gain structure
compressor gain structure
A/D gain structure
EQ
Effects
For vocals and guitars, controlling dynamics can be an issue. When you are playing short samples, the best sounds have been captured and usually nuked with compression and limiting. They are also carefully trimed, so gating, noise reduction and/or fader automation might help to get your recorded sounds more consistent with your sampled sounds.
There's an aesthetic expectation too. If you have a lot of midi stuff with tight timing, there are some sounds that just don't work well alongside them. With real drums and guitars, you can get away with a much looser and more dynamic performance, because there isn't this juxtaposition against impossibly perfect machines.
Maybe you just need to rough up the timing and dynamics of your sampled stuff.
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