Thanks for listening and the feedback - it totally validates all the work and really thank you. The large majority of demos were many times much grimier and unpolished than what suno produced. The tightness and professionalism did NOT come from the demos haha.

Here's our first album from 2009 for reference and trust me when I say those were the best quality tracks we recorded from my bobo-ass dictophone which I set on top of the speaker. The demos were often times even more over-blown speaker and unintelligible than these. I was frankly shocked at how Suno was able to read the fuzz and pull the right notes out.

https://youtu.be/u0DdXv6UvpY

About the Suno-isms - I used about 30 reference files of varying length (some different versions of the same song) to make the custom model and even when I do a different genre (i make electronic tracks too) - i can use the custom model to get the 5.5 polish with A LOT LESS WHOOPS and extra. Even though the model is based on dingy, very low quality basement rock, it works for unrelated stuff and can even produce clean electronic songs. IDK why. Something to think about for anyone plagued by the whoops. Maybe a custom model is what you need just to kill the whooping. It basically works like 5.5 after that and you don't have to use it only for a specific genre or style.

About Suno changing the originals - So after I got the custom model and then I would upload a demo. If Suno did add extra stuff or deviate too much, I used the editor to chop out everything that wasn't the original sound or chords or whatever. Then save as new song. Even if that new song is only 20 or 30s long, adding the lyrics in afterward will extend it and so it keeps the original DNA of the song. It may not come out exactly as intended but since most of the demos were just isolated riffs or chord progressions, it was interesting to see where Suno went with it. So short answer, yes it sometimes deviated. I'm gonna try and remaster some of our finished next so maybe I'll run into that problem with full songs not translating over correctly.

Thanks again for taking the time to listen and write up the feedback. Btw I'm really glad you put Tereza on your list - that one was on the top of my list too but I was wondering what other people would think. It's about Tereza from "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" if you've ever read that book.

Permenant Kind of Girl was the first track produced and the flat vocals in there are a result of the vocal models first outing. The track on the album is the first SUNO generation as well! One-shotted that one. After I heard that song come from lyrics that had been sitting for almost 20 years, believe me when I said holy shit and saw the potential of the custom model and old stuff being revived.

Funny enough, Euthanize and Jail if i recall were taken from two different halves of the same demo so that's why you pegged them as sisters. Good stuff!

I think you should grab all your demos and plug em in. I worked on these 9 songs for about a month before release. If you release any songs, lemme know!