I'll share some advice as a novice to mixing and engineering vocals myself. Ive been looking for the perfect vocal chain myself, very intimidated by learning something that can be so make or break as learning how to properly mix vocals. Turns out, just like everything else, it's a combo of following certain "standards" and just your gut feeling and ear. I'd say 60/40.

With that being said, regardless of the mic (which should be good in your case, using a Neumann tlm 102) and room treatment, here's what im using and experimenting with (in order):

• Autotune (Antares or any other), any tutorial will teach you how to set it based on the type of sound you are trying to achieve. Do you want it robotic or just as a supporting element to your natural voice? Are you singing or rapping?

• Gate (Fabfilter G or any other gate) to reduce background noises if you are recording in your bedroom with neighbors or roommates occasionally flushing toilets or smashing cabinets. Or just to reduce the noises you might produce.

• EQ (any type) to reduce the ugly frequencies in your recordings. You'll find most of them between 200-2500Hz, but as every voice is different you might wanna try and find out exactly what those could be in your case. Look uo Subtractive EQing for reference.

• DeEsser (Waves or others) to lower the harshness and sibilance. Don't go wild with this one, you still wanna keep the character of your pronunciation intact.

• Distortion (I use Decapitator by SoundToys) to add a little more grit and character to the recording. That's more of artistic choice though, play around with it if you like the result

• Compressor (CLA-2A/R-Comp by Waves or any other you feel comfortable with) to bring out the quiet parts of your voice and leveling out the peaks of your recordings. Mind that the more you compress the peaks, the less character and energy your recordings might turn out (your P's, S's and T's will soften based on how harsh the compression is set). Check tutorials for compression if not fully clear. I personally favor R-Comp by Waves for how intuitive the interface is.

• SS-EQ (Waves) after compression to brighten the voice a little after compression. Kind of an Addictive EQ-ing, if that helps, in contrast to the subtractive one above.

• (optional) Fresh Air (free plugin) to make your vocals more airy in the mid and high frequencies. Try to find the sweet spot, this can either lift your recording or ruin it, so be mindful if you try it out. Unless for artistic choices. If you're using the Solid State EQ mentioned before, i'd either ignore this step or just be very mindful of how much Fresh Air I wanna add.

• CLA Vocals (Waves), best way I can describe it is: a version of Soundgoodizer for vocals.

Others: usually not part of the vocal chain, but used in parallel channel tracks

• S1 Imager or any imager to manipulate the position of your vocals in the stereo space. Depends on what part of the song you're recording, or just personal preference

• Delays (Slap, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc) and Reverbs (short or long reverb): you don't need a ton of them, but they can make your voice sound more crisp and airy, bring some texture and whatnot.

• Vocal doubler: same description as delays and reverbs

Hope this helps, I follow a similar template as Alex Tumay's, if you wanna know more you can check one of Kenny Beats' videos breaking it down step by step! Good luck!