Mixed Song Covers or Live Song Covers?

AuthenticFINN

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I hope this is the right place to put this.

Anyway, hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice or just some general preferences of people. I'm a singer and have started making song covers on YouTube, the only thing is, I'm pretty bad at mixing and mastering, which can leave my decent vocals recordings sounding very sub-par.

So my question is; if you listen to cover artists on YouTube, do you prefer it when they sing live or if they take the extra time to mix it and make it "studio ready"? And what would you recommend doing?

Thanks!