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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.

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.

Loud cymbals

Well, I'm beginning to work on the mix for my instrument tracks, and it appears I accidentally turned the cymbals up a bit too high. Unfortunately, I recorded with electronic drums in stereo, so I can't adjust individual drum voices. The largest problem seems to be that the cymbals are drowning out the snare a bit.

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.