How To Use Your AI Suno Project With a Nashville Recording Studio

After putting your prompts or lyrics in Suno and experimenting for a while, you finally have a country song you’re happy with.

So why use a Nashville music producer Nashville recording studio at all?

Here’s what songwriters who come to Nashville Trax say:

1. AI portions of a project are auto rejected by the Library of Congress. Those portions can’t be copyrighted. They want real singers and musicians as they can be copyrighted.
2. To get what they really want. Suno AI has a mind of its own. FOR EXAMPLE: The songwriter wants the singer to go up an octave on the chorus but THE AI engine may not cooperate. Or maybe that third chorus needs to happen just after the bridge but Suno decided to go off on a tangent. And often Suno generates weird artifacts, ghost vocals, etc. strange pronunciations that need to be cleaned up.
3. AI has a certain “fake” sound to it. Real singers and real musicians will impart the missing human element
4. To avoid rejection. Many A&R reps in Nashville and elsewhere summarily reject anything to do with AI as soon as they recognize it. It’s a threat, they aren’t going to promote it.
5. To sing it themself. Songwriters hire us to provide human musicianship then add their vocals.
6. For originality and quality. AI can provide a demo song that is catchy but, hey, haven’t I heard that same hook before with different words? That guitar solo, isn’t it nearly identical to the solo on a hit you know. AI builds on existing hit songs. Therefore it basically plagiarizes that content so much of it isn’t very original.

For one or more of those reasons, you may find yourself seeking a producer to help take your songs to the next level.

The first thing you should do is approach the studio with a very clear list of why you need them. Example: Not “I want you guys to record this again.” Rather, “I want this with a female singer instead of male, a short guitar solo inserted after the bridge and the chorus needs another repeat after the solo.

Second, list the things you like about the AI version. “I love the intro.” “I love the AI singer’s tone” etc.

Third, the things you don’t like: “I hate the bridge, it’s too long.”

Fourth, is anything missing? “I’d love to hear some banjo!”

This will give the producer a road map to follow.

If the project is still available go back and download the stems, even if its just the instrumental track and the vocal separated. The producer may decide to use some of them in the new rendition, but if not, he may find them useful anyway to help determine the exact notes or chords played.

Once you hire the producer, give him your project and notes, back off a few days so they have time to write charts and call musicians. At that point it’s appropriate to request a rough ETA.