Mixing guitar and vocal tricks?

Hi you guys, I really love this community and appreciate the help and was curious to know if anyone has a few solid ideas on how to get distorted guitars to sound balanced with vocals.

I've tested a few plugins on the guitar aux, iZotope neutron unmask and also master the mix FUSER using a sidechain from vocal group.

I read on a forum to set the unmasking between 800-5k where the energy of vox are.

This seems to duck the guitar when vocals come in but if I add too much of wet/dry signal (50-70%) the guitar has that pumping effect and doesn't feel normal, with just a little, maybe 20% of the unmask processing it's subtle but not sure if this is smart?

But I sure would like to hear a few thoughts from some of your guys that have more experience mixing rock/metal.

Is it just as simple as cutting freqs with EQ or volume automation? Do these plugins make a difference? I'm learning and experimenting for the most part. 🙂🎸

Thx

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