editing a guitar lick help

ok i have this clean riff it has alot of punch sounds great in the head phones but when i listen through  moniters the high peaks pop making it sound like crap, Is their a way to edit the highs so it will not pop in speakers with out weaking my riff ?

A couple ways come to mind. One is to use Boost 11 to knock down those transients. Another is to use a volume envelope.

With Boost 11, add it to the track's FX bin and open it by double clicking it. Turn the BOOST knob all the way down to 0. As you play the song watch the waveform and the Reduction Meter. You can also loop your project where the too loud parts are at. Play the song and slowly turn up the Boost knob until you see those transient showing up as RED in the Waveform. You should also see some activity in the Reduction Meter. You should be a able to find a setting that knocks down the transients without affecting the rest of the audio. How high you will have to turn up the Boost knob depends on how loud that audio already is and the setting on the Output knob.  I would start with the Output knob set to around -6db to start. If you're getting red in the waveform with the Boost knob at 0 then turn up the Output until you see only the transients in red. This is how I would do it. Be careful you don't OVER-use Boost 11. You want to see JUST those loud peaks you want to get rid of in red.

You can also use a volume, or gain, envelope to reduce the volume of the transients. Turn snap to grid off, maximize the track, and zoom in horizontally until you can draw an envelope without affecting the surrounding audio. The disadvantage of this method is that it will reduce the volume of all audio where it is used, including the "good" audio.

I guess you could also use an EQ with the transient but I've never spent much time with that method so can't say much about it.