Hi all, really interesting thread. My own experience:

I've been using BIAB for about 9 months now, and have only scraped the surface of what it can do, but to be honest that's enough for me.

My songs are fairly basic so I haven't needed to delve too deep to get something that I think sounds good. Though I've only done 6 so far, so still early days!

Despite having written songs for years my musical theory knowledge is awful - I still don't know the names of some of the chords I use on guitar - but at least BIAB doesn't laugh at me for it :-)

I miss the excitement and adventure of going to a studio to record with mates in the band, but as we were all amateurs our results were the same level. As the songwriter I always felt that the songs could sound better.

With BIAB I can now get a really professional recording that I would never be able to achieve otherwise.

There is a lot to learn to with all the tech, inc DAWs, mixing & mastering etc. and sometimes it feels that you get further away from the thing you love, the actual writing, but I couldn't go back to the old ways now!

I've been very lucky to find an online vocalist through Fivver who has been very easy to work with and who I felt got the songs straight away. I know there are lots of excellent drummers on there as well, so that may be worth looking at.

I think you should turn it on again :-)

Cheers,
David

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