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Hi, I am hoping to use BIAB to create demos that I can play to publishers and artists whom I would wish to 'sell' my songs to.

Anybody use BIAB for this purpose?

Be interested to hear from you!

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Hi Frage,

I have been doing BIAB for backing tracks for demo's and gig's for many years with great success for a group in London

You can PM me on here if you want to

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Frage, sure, for about fifteen years now. It's fun to listen to the older CDs and hear the difference as I improved my MIDI modules a few times, started using Real Drums, and then Real Tracks. What a difference from then to now.


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One of my style disk customers has been sending songwriting demos to Nashville for a number of years and has had many of them purchased by publishing companies.

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Hi, I am hoping to use BIAB to create demos that I can play to publishers and artists whom I would wish to 'sell' my songs to.

Anybody use BIAB for this purpose?








I asked the exact same question a couple of months ago if you want to search back and find more responses.

Simple answer: Yes.

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I think I sent my first BIAB demos to Nashville around 1992. Going through some old tapes, I found one of the first:

http://www.itrstudio.com/perfect_love.mp3

I think there was one real guitar on it, main vocal, and real backup singers. Everything else was BIAB. All of the BIAB instruments were MIDI, through the original Roland Sound Canvas.

Oh yeah, least anyone get the wrong idea, I wrote the song, not my wife.

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Thank you all for your replies.

I really am looking forward to getting involved with BIAB now!

What a positive bunch you all are!

Great stuff!

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Hi Frage,BIAB is brilliant for recording quality demos.Ive been lucky in the past as Ive played my very basic demos to a friend of mine who owns Rockfield studios here in Wales.If he liked the song he would then get in pro musicians to record it.Even though it was great for him to do that I still would have preferred to have presented a much better demo and BIAB is perfect for that so good luck and start recording your stuff.Cheers Frankie


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Hi tributeman - thanks for that...

Getting good demos done as been the bane of my song-writing life. I am not a good enough musician myself and as soon as I play a demo to anyone they have tended to bypass the song altogether and focus on the musicianship or some other aspect of the demo when I want them to hear THE SONG!

Hoping BIAB will get me past that!

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Hi Harvey - I just listened to your song. I like the song AND the demo. Very impressed by the demo quality and there are some great lines in that. Thanks!


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Well, keep in mind that it was done with a very old version of BIAB. But it got the job done.

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Heck, I've been using BIAB on my released songs for a few years now. About eight albums' worth.


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Hi Tom,

I am begining to realise I should have got into BIAB a long time ago!

Anyway, better late than never!

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