How To Use Your AI Suno Project With a Nashville Recording Studio
Posted: November 20, 2025 Filed under: Song Demo Tip, Studio Services | Tags: AI, AI copyright, artificial-intelligence, Music, nashville trax recording studio, Suno, technology, writing Leave a commentAfter 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:
- 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 can be.
- 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. That third chorus needs to happen just after the bridge but Suno decided to go off on a tangent. Often Suno generates weird artifacts, ghost vocals, etc. strange pronunciations that need to be cleaned up.
- Real singers and real musicians will impart a human element
- To avoid rejection. Many A&R reps in Nashville summarily reject anything to do with AI as soon as they recognize it.
- To sing it themself.
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 are approaching 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 insterted 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.
2025: A Great Year for Nashville, Our Clients and Nashville Trax!
Posted: January 3, 2024 Filed under: Client News, Music Industry News, Studio Equipment | Tags: Music, Nashville, nhl, travel Leave a commentHere at Nashville Trax we addedthe latest greatest recording and mixing gear. Pro Tools 25 with the Steven Slate dual touchscreen system.
In business now for nearly 20 years, 2024 was our busiest and 2025 has been even more so. Keep an eye on our FB page!We are also in the process of adding new talent to make this roster of musicians and singers our best ever.
Our clients have many exciting single, album and performance projects in the works we’ll be posting about periodically.
Not only is Nashville Trax thriving, Nashville is too! Down on Broadway, with Luke Combs backing, The Wild Horse Saloon is being refurbished to become a multi-floor dance club holding over 3,000 people. Meanwhile, with over 100 people per day moving to Nashville, the housing market here is expected to experience another great year throughout the entire greater Nashville area on into 2026!
As the entire shopping mall concept has been failing with many malls closing around the country, Opry Mills Mall here in Nashville is going strong. Already the largest retail space in the area, OMM is experiencing their biggest year in 2025. Shop or just walk through, you’ll be glad you added it to your trip here!
And….drum roll please!…According to Statistica, country music has surpassed pop on the most popular genres list, at 42% and 40% respectively. It looks like everything is pointing to a banner year here in Nashville and at Nashville Trax!
Do you want to book a music project at Nashville Trax? Text or call 615-319-8616
Male or Female Singers Available For Your Recording Project!
Posted: October 28, 2016 Filed under: Studio Products, Studio Services, Tracks Online | Tags: Music, Singer for my song recording Leave a commentIf you wrote a song recently and are in the process of recording or already have, one thing is probably crystal clear at this point:
The singer IS the song!
If you:
- Don’t have a quality singer available for your song
- Are in the recording process and the singer you chose isn’t working out
- Attempted to sing your song yourself but know you aren’t the best choice
- Have already finished your mix a while ago and now fresh ears are screaming, “This song deserves a better singer!”
We can help!
While it’s best to approach us at nashtrax@bellsouth.net BEFORE you cut the first rhythm track so you can select the singer you want and let them select the key they prefer to sing your song in, all may not be lost if you didn’t.
Several of our singers have a range so wide they can fit into just about any key. The price range is very reasonable as well. Demo rate is anywhere from $100 to $375 per song, depending on which singer you choose and that INCLUDES studio time, the singer and the producer/engineer!
You get a .wav file in any format you need (default is 24/48) that will drop right into Pro Tools, Cubase or any other popular recording format and lock up to your project automatically.
So let’s get to work solving your problem:
What do you need?
Maybe Brandon would be a good choice?
Why not have our Nashville session singer Jennifer sing your song?
Songwriting Tip: Separate That Chorus!
Posted: February 25, 2013 Filed under: Songwriting Tips | Tags: Music, separate the chorus, songwriting, songwriting tip, songwriting tips Leave a comment
One mistake some songwriters consistently make is failure to create a chorus section that’s distinctly different from the verse. You want that chorus to just about shout to the listener: “Okay now: here’s where I’m summing up what this song is about!”
How? A few good techniques to achieve separation are:
- Alter the line length
- Change the rhythm
- Alter the note length
You can use any one of those or combine as necessary. A lyric that has relatively lengthy verse lines but the chorus lines are short and powerful may provide sufficient contrast. A subtle change of rhythm can work and some recent hits take that to extreme such as Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road.”
We need look no further than the Florida Georgia Line hit, Cruise, for a good example of altering note length. If you sing it and tap your fingers with each syllable you’ll notice the tapping is a lot faster when you reach the chorus “Baby you a song, you make me wanna roll my windows down and Cruise …” part.
A producer has a good number of tools available to create chorus separation via the arrangement but if you can provide it in the structure of the song itself, it makes the song that much stronger and the final product that much more likely to be signed. More songwriting tips are available at the link in the menu to the right- Bill Watson
Is Melodyne Better Pitch Correcting Software than Antares?
Posted: February 7, 2013 Filed under: Pro Tools Software | Tags: Antares Auto Tune, Melodyne, Melodyne Vs. Antares, Music, Nashville Studio Demo, Pro Tools duplicate track Leave a comment
It really has come to the point where if you don’t run pitch correction lightly on a vocal track it just doesn’t have that pro studio sound. I’ve had this conversation many times with a pro Nashville session singer who works at the studio frequently. We’ve deduced that’s mainly due to so many artists being signed who can’t stay on pitch, that engineers are forced to run correction on nearly every master vocal session. We’re all so used to hearing it on major label mixes that if it isn’t there on a vocal track, the track doesn’t sound right. Wow!
There’s No Clear Winner
Having started out with Antares Auto-Tune and using it for about two years while producing for clients of Nashville Trax on Music Row, then trying Melodyne when it became available in year three, twelve years now, I don’t see a clear cut winner here. It really depends on your experience, how good your ear is and what you need to achieve.
When harmonizers first came out my drummer then, cousin still, David Watson, and I used to jokingly refer to them as “de-harmonizers” because they’d sound great through a few chord changes then hit a chord they couldn’t recognize properly. At times the generated harmonizer part was so far out of key it was painful to listen to.
Well, Antares Auto-Tune, set once and allowed to do its thing on an entire track, unfortunately can de-tune with the best. Many engineers use it that way when a vocalist is pitchy on nearly every note and time is of the essence. It may track perfectly throughout a song or there may be points where it gets out of whack.
Antares Better At Set & Run
The best way to handle that problem in Pro Tools and in most digital recording software is to duplicate the track and run Antares on the duplicated track. Then, using your ear, find the spots the pitch correction algorithm went haywire and paste those specific vocal phrases over from the original section. The pastes can then get individual attention.
Melodyne Is The Better Choice for Detailed Work
Melodyne is better at the individual attention in my opinion. The newest version actually allows you to go into an out of tune guitar chord and move individual notes up or down in pitch, incredible! It’s also better at automatically pocketing phrases, changing amplitude of a note or group of notes and other things- B.E. Watson
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