Metal noise and high-fidelity capture: high-frequency management?

[Shrilka]

Hey guys, I'm trying to record very precise cutting sounds with high-end Japanese scissors, and I'm having a rendering issue with my Scope plugins. Actually, I’m working with the best collection of wings scissors for a project, but the clanging of the metal and the hissing of the blade on the hair generate super aggressive transients that saturate my DSPs, even when I push the sample rate to the max on my Xite. Do you have a specific patch or routing to soften these very crystalline frequencies without losing the organic and surgical feel of the steel? If anyone has a chaining tip for capturing this kind of precision equipment without ending up with a digital scrap metal sound, I'm all ears

[garyb]

samplerate won't help.
lower the input and move the mic a bit and use a compressor/limiter.
otherwise, put a limiter on the front end before the XITE.

[valis]

If your mic or mic pre has a hipass (low cut) filter, use that too.