Originally Posted By: JohnJohnJohn
Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
it just like going to a studio and hiring a steel player and a drummer, and a piano player...etc.... Since I wouldn't have too much say over how they would play the parts..... what's the difference?

I think you make a great point about recorded music. To me a recording is different from a live performance because all recordings are heavily engineered, mixed, mastered, recorded and re-recorded, use musical wizards, patch together various takes to get the best one, etc.

So BIAB is just the poor man's small army of excellent session musicians! The only drawbacks I'd see to using BIAB on recordings is 1) it becomes difficult for me to add my own instrumentation because honestly I am not as good as my band in a box and 2) some of the tracks can start to sound a little similar (because of the few I really love to use)!


I have to agree with you there, one of my favourite realtracks is the cowboy soloist by Jason Roller. I use it all the time and songs do start to sound a little similar after a while. I must start to experiment with others.

As regards biab itself I find that even seasoned musicians will scuff at us for using it not because they consider it cheating but because they are far too proud to use a program like it.

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Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2025, Cubase 14, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use smile