RA was captured with a phase accurate 8-mic setup that gives a complete 3 dimensional image of the instrument. This is the famous Ocean Way sound: an amazing collection of vintage mics and a custom API console. You will find RA has amazing sound quality. Los Angeles is so ethnically diverse and blessed with excellent institutions like Cal Arts, it is actually the ideal place to record a rare and ethnic collection.
We spent time hunting down the best ethnic artists on the West Coast. They have worked on some other Quantum Leap projects and had some great ideas for RA. Because of the size and complexity of the project, I brought in two talented producers, Pacemaker and Tony Austin to co-produce RA with me. The other ninety percent of RA was recorded at Ocean Way studios in Hollywood. RA was born a few years ago, as a sample library called “Rare Instruments.” All of the sounds from Rare Instruments are included in RA, but this only represents approximately one-tenth of the content. RA is an appropriate name for the largest, and most comprehensive rare and ethnic virtual instrument ever made. The chief location of RA worship was Heliopolis (a Greek word meaning city of the sun).
RA is usually represented with the body of a man and the head of a hawk, holding an ankh & sceptre. In ancient Egypt, RA was regarded as the creator of everything, the god of the sun.
