What should I do with vocals?

Hello, 
I've only just joined on this forum so apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place or something. I am in the process of recording my own music and I've got quite fast at recording track sand editing them, panning them etc but it always ends up sounding quite amateur. I'm not particularity knowledgeable as I am quite new to this and don't know a lot of the terminology. So my question is, how would i go about making vocal tracks sound a lot better and professional?
 

Not knowing what in your opinion is wrong with the vocals I suggest the normal list of variables:
- Your voice/singing. Are you familiar with listening to your voice and are you realistic about yourself as a singer? If your singing is not of a professional level, there's no way you can make yourself sound professional.
- Microphone. Do you have a mic of proper quality for vocals. I don't mention audio interface separately, because qualitywise any of them can produce acceptable results. Though a proper external interface is very recommendable.
- Recording technique and environment. How's the acoustics in your studio? 
- There is quite a learning curve for using the effects and whatever the DAW has to offer, so don't expect to get there in a month or two. There are lots of guides on FX and else on tweakheadz.com
 
There are good books about recording also, like some by Roey Izhaki, can't remember the other big name just now. Those books, however, give you more when you have some idea of the job.
 
Patience :o)

Hears the link to the video, just type the standard start to a youtube url in
 before hand and hopefully itll work
 
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Yeah, that link isn't working for me either...... type it out completely and leave spaces or spell the "." as "dot"
 
 
also, when you post some vocals for a listen please have them in a song with backing tracks since it's hard to compare the vocals solo'd with no other reference.