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How do you deal with harsh cymbals

I'm working on an EP for a friend of mine and I'm pushing myself to do a good job and I'm getting really happy with the results. I tracked everything right here in my living room just muffling the walls and windows with blankets, nothing fancy. Overall I think the quality of the recordings is good and everything sounds great except for one thing: the top end, the drum cymbals.

Can't correct cymbals phasing issue

I'm trying to restore some old tracks that i transferred from years ago into Cubase5. Does anyone know how I can repair really bad phasing issues on just the cymbals? I only have 2 drum tracks to work with (a kick & overhead). I isolated every other part of the drum on different tracks to sound good.

Cymbal ringing sound

Did a short recording session yesterday for some scratch tracks for a couple of song demos. The drummer was using a 22" Zildjian K Custom Dark Ride Cymbal. There was an annoying (to my ears anyway) ringing sound that when I first heard it I thought came from mic placement, but after several adjustments to no avail, I realized it was the cymbals sound itself.

Taming Cymbals

Alright, so I just listened to a really rough mix in my car of a song I've been working on for a few days, and I noticed that the cymbals in the song, almost all the highs actually, were really shrill almost to the point of being unlistenable. The whole song is also rather thin sounding. This is contrary to how everything was sounding coming out of my monitors.