interesting! Were I to be the producer on that song I would either ditch that particular guitar, which sounds like an archtop, or add something like a mahogany/sitka flattop with the mids carved out. To my ears the current guitar simply competes with the voice for the same same spectrum bandwidth. I realize its a current trend to go for different guitar sounds, but darn. With either the replaced guitar or the complementary part blended you can reduce that upper-mid rake or clack of the current guitar and still have the guitar's rhythm presence, but it will be moved up out of the way of the vocal's intelligibility range. It's a case of "don't raise the bridge, lower the water." Production Jiu-Jitsu.
My two cents.
Bob
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