| Excerpts from the Mix article:
“Anthony had been reluctant to do this library,” DeRenzo continues. “It's a very time-consuming endeavor, and he wanted to be able to do a very high-quality recording. But using today's Tascam GigaSampler 3 and GigaStudio — where you can have very long sounds, decay and full notes in length — convinced him that now was the right time.”
"Not only were a number of Jackson's signature articulations planned — including palm muting, modulated mutes, flat-pick technique with Meta Flanger and Omnipressor, articulations with glisses, string effects and more — but also every event would be recorded a minimum of three separate times to take full advantage of GigaSampler's Random function."
"With Jackson's exacting work ethic factored into the mix, the recording sessions required a patient frame of mind to complete the work. “The biggest surprise was the amount of time it takes for a note on an instrument like this to be performed and literally decay,” Conrad observes. “With multiple versions of five levels of velocity, 28 frets and six strings, all the samples add up to approximately 1,800 notes. The longest, lowest notes last up to a minute 40 seconds, and it's almost like a Zen kind of thing sitting and waiting for the notes to decay. Anthony's level of perfectionism is as high as you're going to get, which means he's got to sit and hold his Fodera contrabass guitar for that entire time without moving it an inch. It was daunting.” | 
