Advantages of Recording with Prerecorded Trax

There are a number of advantages to recording with prerecorded trax - advantages that don't first meet the eye. 

• Predictability - You know exactly what you are paying for because you are leasing a track you can preview before you lay your money down.
• Schedule - If time is critical, producing 'custom' tracks may not be an option.  In rare situations a track can be done in a week, at other times the production schedule might require a month or more. Prerecorded tracks are ready to record yesterday.
• Cost - The most obvious advantage. Average cost per track is around $150, compared with custom-produced tracks which cost 3 to 12 times that amount. With prerecorded tracks, production costs are shared with other users.

Disadvantages of Recording with Prerecorded Trax

• Inflexibility - Prerecorded trax require the singer to be more flexible with respect to tempo, interpretation, range, etc.
• Uniqueness - With prerecorded tracks, there is the chance that your sound track may have been heard at First Baptist just last week.  On the other hand, this liability is even of greater concern to a major artist whose tracks (for performance purposes) are in every Christian bookstore in town.
• Songs are 'dated' - Generally songs with prerecorded trax have been around awhile.  Eagles Nest has solved that problem...

'Unpublished Originals'

Everyone would like their project to sound as fresh and original as a major artist project.  The Eagles Nest catalog contains over 125 songs of which, most likely, no one in your audience will ever recognize.  They are unpublished originals, available only from Eagles Nest . . . and they cost no more to lease.

Eagles Nest has the most streamlined review method in the industry using 3 tools, all of which you can use in the comfort of your home or car!

• Catalog - Listing over 1,000 titles, the catalog gives you the range(s) of each track, it lists the style and also tells you if the song is "public domain." (This means you only pay for the lease of the track. No publisher or writer is entitled to any royalties.)
• Listening Library - The Eagles Nest (Clarion) Listening Library consists of several dozen cassettes.  Each Preview cassette contains 10 to 20 songs; each song is played in its entirety along with a guide voice to help you get totally familiar with the song.  The most recent releases have the songs grouped so that all songs on a cassette are similar in style.
• Lyrics Collection- This collection contains the printed lyrics for every song in the Listening Library.  The two tools run perfectly parallel; for each cassette there is a page of lyrics in the Lyrics Collection.