Topic: How to fix a recording with very harsh sounding mid-range frequencies?

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I'm in search of an advise about properly equalizing a recording with very harsh sounding mid-range frequencies.

Two weeks ago I taped the tour kick-off date of one of my favorite bands (genre: shoegaze / post-rock). Think of them as the Italian cousins of Mogwai/Hood/MBV...

The gig was taking place at a historic theater (an all-seater). The stage was about 1.3m high and there were high PA stacks at either side of the stage. I managed to snatch a seat in the front row about 1.5m from the right stack and stack-taped the set [CA-14(c) => CA STC-9000 => Marantz PMD-620 (24bit, 48 kHz)].

The thing is that while vocals, bass, violins and trumpets were sounding pretty natural, two (of the three) guitars were overly present in the mix. To a degree that the guitar sound was really harsh and biting - which has also translated to the recording.

I crosschecked the wave form and there's no brickwalling whatsoever. Still, depending on the playback chain (or headphones) I'm using, there's some annoying amount of midrange distortion (I'd guess in the range of 1.6kHz to 2.2kHz?).

Does anybody have any recommendation about properly EQing this recording?

Samples

FLAC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4509968/sample1.flac
MP3: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4509968/sample1.mp3

Thanks in advance for your input.