What is a good homemade antidote for this process? And I am not talking about some bottled solution at the local music store for already making nice shiny cymbals looks more ablaze. I am talking about getting the embedded gunky goo snot muck off of them that requires some blue collar labor. The best thing that I ever came across was my buddy worked in a doll up shop for cars and put this pasty gunk on them and then buffed the snot out of them. I could not believe how they came out; almost brand new without any backfire rePERCUSSIONs. Other than that, any ideas?

Brasso always works but it'll gwet rid of your logos as well.
I have some tarnex but haven't used it yet.

I did use some sof-soap stuff and a green scotch-brite pad on a particularly stubborn one then used brasso after that. The thing is, you'll need to put some polish on afterwards to protect the now-virgin raw metal.