That's exactly what you're hearing now

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I almost chalked the take and was going to have lew retrack it, but it was so well performed I didn't want to make him re-record just because I couldn't get the production acceptible. I guess I was hoping for maybe a plugin suggestion (like the smooth/enhance feature in Sonar) or a compression trick.
I will admit that I wasn't overly aggressive at trying to gate the highest frequencies. Maybe I should try a little gating and see if there's a definite culprit frequency. What I was finding was that the distortion was covering a wide range. It's a vintage RAT distortion pedal that works good only when set to LOW. lol