saturated guitar fixes?

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Does anybody have suggestions on how to tame an overly saturated guitar tone? The band has already moved on to re-recording the song, but there's elements in this performance that everyone likes, so I'd like to surprise them with a mix (if possible). The big painful point was the rhythm guitar, recorded direct through a Digitech processor is just way too saturated; kind of like "gahhhhhggggg". Would the use of a gate help make things more distinct?

Like I said the band has already moved on to eventual re-recording, so this is more for fun (maybe). If you have some ideas of what may help....


Thanks
 
Re-recording is the only real answer. I have had some luck unscrewing nasty guitar tones with a multi-band compressor, I just fiddle around with cutoff points, ratios and make-up until I've de-emphasized the crap as much as I can. It has done OK with fizzy guitars, I don'y know if it would help you mush issue.

Direct from a Digitech sounded like a good idea at the time?
 
Unfortunately, I wasn't involved in the recording at the time, otherwise I would've told them straight off it sounded like crap. I'll mess with it, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it.
 
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