Dave, use it. I have been a BIAB user for years, and to me it is a tool to further both my playing abilitly and my solo act. I travelled a lot so the luxury of rehearsals was difficult to schedule at times. I still play in a 16 piece swing band so I load any of the chord progressions for songs that I sing, have solos, and/or difficult arrangements. I then copy those into a cd/mp3 player and play them back while driving in the car or hotel room. | sing all my parts against the BIAB recordings. I did a solo gig (freebee) for the local seniors 2 weeks ago. So I used the BIAB to provide my backup for Christmas songs and old standards. They got some nice full sounding entertainment. When I was working in Edmonton I did some coffee house stuff (Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson) so in that instance I just used BIAB to rehearse with and only played my guitar on stage. In all instances my approach was not to put some musician out of work but to provide the very best product I can in whatever music I play. If you become popular and get more gigs because of it that is the return of your investment in time and money. From the content of your letter it certainly doesn't appear that your intent is to put musicians out of work, your intent is to provide a better product. If as stated earlier you become more popular then you get more jobs, if you get more jobs, someone gets less jobs. BIAB is a great musical tool! As a side note it would be trying to apply the same reasoning to PT or RB. Look at all the studio employees we put out of work by recording, mixing, and mastering our own work.DennisD

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