The reason I started on Youtube in the first place was because my monitoring microphone broke and I wasn’t ready to get a new one ahead of Christmas. I was doing recording on a multitrack software on the computer and posting things to Soundcloud from those experiments.
So I finally got a new monitoring microphone and it worked! I had just previous got another and it didn’t, so now I have a working one. For those of you who don’t know, you use a monitoring microphone (hardware monitoring) so you can sync the sound you’re recording with an existing recording. Multitrack software allows you to both play back and record at the same time.
If you don’t know Audacity, it is a really good multitrack product with many cool features. I was using another multi-track software before but I like this one better. I can drag and drop my other tracks that I got out of Suno (besides lead vocals) and then add a new track with my own voice singing lead. And this isn’t just a voice that sounds like me, it is me. So create your song in Suno, break it into the individual stems, load into Audacity leaving out lead vocals, then manually sing your lead.
Suno, on another tangent, is the AI music tool I use to create everything in a song basically. I write the song, I figure out the melody and chords, I create a work recording, feed it into Suno, then I have a version of the song.
At this point, I’m going to continue doing the kinds of things I’ve been doing, I’m just going to do more using my own real voice. Note that you can also create a persona that is a synthetic voice and put it on your recordings, but I prefer the real thing.
If you’re worried about being flagged as AI music, you still will be. Youtube requires the AI setting if the song is AI in any way, so make sure to set it. Some music platforms have ways of detecting AI music and they will flag your music as AI even if you really sing the lead vocals. So I’m not really eliminating this problem if there is one. In fact, I think it might be better to let the world know that what you’re putting out is AI… it gets more attention.
On the other hand, I think I am also going to do a tricky thing to put multiple tracks of sound on my music videos that I usually do with guitar and voice. I can do a bit of harmonica, perhaps lead acoustic guitar, all kinds of sounds from my keyboard, etc. on a video that shows me actually singing and playing my guitar. I’ll give that a try in the next few weeks.
Make sure to check out Billy Dangerous (country) or Jagged Steel (rock/punk) on Spotify or Apple Music. These are my AI artists that are helping me promote my songs more broadly. Maybe in the future I’ll also have my own Spotify or Apple Music as I move forward.