How to fix the leakage of vocal into guitar track

[Randaji]

The lead singer/guitarist for my band laid down an amazing guitar track (mic'ed acoustic) last month. Unfortunately, his vocals weren't quite as stellar and we had to retrack. The problem is that the awsome guitar track contains leakage from his original vocal, so in the mix it creates an anoying vocal doubling effect in some places and a distant echo in others.

Sure, we could retrack the guitar track but we'd rather keep it with the bleed than to dump it.

I understand how to use a gate if one instrument was percussive, but in this case both the vocal and the guitar are sustaining. Is EQ or multiband compression the likely solution? It seems that the frequency range of both guitar and his vocals are quite overlapping, so I'm not certain how to go about separating them.

Since I have the original vocal on it's own track, I considered mixing it with the guitar track and inverting its phase hoping to use phase cancellation to my advantage, but that just makes the vocals louder.

Anyway. Much Thanks for any help you can give.
-Randaji

 

[chessrock]

I think you're kinda' screwed.

 

[powderfinger]

I think you're kinda' screwed.

Unfortunately, I agree. You're not going to be able to get rid of enough of that first vocal.

 

[TexRoadkill]

Double the vocals a few a times and it should at least be less noticeable. Hopefully that sound works for the song because otherwise you are pretty much screwed.