Suggestions from musically inclined people

[dog8food]

I'm making my first amateur recording from a poem I wrote, and though I know the finished product won't sound great, I just want it to sound less amateur. So far, it's just me singing with my ukulele (Separate tracks). You can listen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsiHQMU5xtg (audio quality suffered a bit with format conversion).

My questions are:
-I have a Yamaha keyboard with lots of pretty-good quality instruments on it. I want to add bass, but can't figure out what other synth instruments would go with this song. Suggestions?
-The vocal is just raw and dry. What Audacity effects would you apply? I want to play around with it, but don't know where to start.
-Any other suggestions?

I appreciate you taking the time.

[kozikowski]

You almost told us what kind of microphone you have and how it's connected. Which Audacity exactly, which computer and what operating system?

You posted in a part of the forum that doesn't ell us anything and we're going to ask you all this stuff anyway.

Koz

[Trebor]

-The vocal is just raw and dry. What Audacity effects would you apply? I want to play around with it, but don't know where to start.

IMO "another waaAAYY" gets too loud towards the end, can be fixed with audacity's envelope control ...

before-after 'another way'.mp3

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"after" has a hint of reverb and chorus

[Trebor]

dynamic range compression helps too ...

[Trebor]

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain