Why a vocal disappears the moment the guitars come in without anything getting louder — a mechanical fact about the inner ear rather than a mixing metaphor, and the reason you cannot boost your way out of it.
A vocal sits perfectly in the verse. The guitars come in for the chorus, nothing about the vocal changes, and it vanishes. The instinct is to reach for the vocal fader, and it will not fix it — which is a good sign that something structural is going on rather than a matter of taste.
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