VITALIC

One of the most entertaining sounds on OK Cowboy is the crunching, spastic, metal guitars on "My Friend Dario," for which Vitalic used Dave Smith Instruments Evolver synth. "Because they're fake guitars, you have to make a very muddy mix to hide the fact that they're fake," Vitalic says. "If you clean up too much of the track, then you can totally hear that they're fake guitars, so it's very tricky. The sound engineer, because it's his job, was trying to make the track sound as large as possible, with a good stereo image. But that didn't work on that track. I really had a particular sound in my head, and I don't give up until I achieve the sound that I want. It's like I don't really have a choice. In the end, we finally got the sound we wanted."