Thanks for the comments. I should point out that it is NOT my singing it's a guy I play with called Mark Kane who played in the States for years and sings and plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin and bouzouki. I play guitar and bass and sing sometimes. I'm going to have a look at the twotrack site and thanks for that.

As I've said before the set up I have is very basic and is unlikely to get much better over time. I can get recordings of about this quality which is probably ok for my purposes so things probably won't get much better than this! I could probably pay a bit of attention to the room I record in and damp reflections down etc and try and get rid of more of the background noise and a few other things but I think I am approaching the limits of my knowledge and technical set up!

I enjoy being to get this far though but am not sure I'll go hugely further on it.

Tim - I use Reaper which I think is wonderful for my purposes. It is uncrippled shareware (that I subsequently bought for £25 - $50 at the time) and is downloadable from Reaper site - there are better things I'm sure but it works for me and is hugely better than Audacity. Huge manual and quite a learning curve, and I only use a bit of what it can do, but good.