This is a very interesting question. I'm doing much the same as you, producing composer's demos. BIAB is indeed wonderful and indispensable for my work.

A few quick reactions to start:

- there isn't anything else like it
- BIAB tracks are being heard in professional recordings, including jingles
- when you mix tracks, it becomes harder to tell what's in the mix
- "If it sounds good, it is good" - Duke Ellington

I have done lots of studio recording. The studios typically use a higher bit and maybe higher sample rate, and almost always 24 bit. This gives you more headroom. BIAB uses CD quality of 16 / 44.1 in the audiophile version. The 'regular' version compresses the tracks to .WMA files resulting in a file about one eleventh the size.

Using a higher bit and/or sample rate than CD quality would make BIAB enormous for distribution. The audiophile drive is about 1.5 terabytes as it is. Nevertheless, there have been a few posts on the Wishlist asking to do this. We users have no way of knowing how the original tracks were recorded, or if BIAB could use tracks of higher quality.

I tried not to get too technical here because I don't know your background in recording. Does this help?

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