Product Description

The recording is 78 continuous minutes of the sound of the surf. No music or other sounds are featured. It's the perfect disc to calm your baby and ensure sound sleep.

Track Listing

1. Ocean Waves - Myrtle Beach 78 minutes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78601 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .19 pounds

Review
This is the best ocean waves recording on the market for the purpose of providing calming sounds for baby's bedtime. Such recordings are often used in hospital nurseries to calm new babies to sleep. This is a sound recording made by new parents to benefit other new parents. The recording is 78 continuous minutes of the sound of the surf. This disc is a specially mastered soundscape for the sensitive ears of infants, with no volume spikes or other irregularities just the smooth sound of the surf. Only the natural sound of the surf is featured - no wildlife sounds or musical accompaniment. Using your player s repeat play mode allows continuous play all night. This disc provides a totally natural, rhythmic, and calming sleep-promoting atmosphere. This CD is a great tool to mask the irritating and irregular nuisance noises of traffic, lawnmowers, and barking dogs. It's a great disc for mommy too, providing an escape to a private beach. This disc was created from a live recording at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. There are many other sound recordings of ocean waves on the market. Unfortunately most are not suitable for baby's bedtime. Many contain the sounds of squawking seagulls or distant boats. Bird noises are not natural for nighttime, instead they signal the time to wake. Most ocean waves recordings attempt to magnify the dynamic range of the sound of the surf such that the waves crash at a thunderous volume with near silence afterwards. The white noise of the post-crash water rush is usually removed or attenuated. Such manipulation can indeed make for an exhilarating listening experience. But that s not what we were after with this disc. Instead, this recording was made on a peaceful wind-free night, when the birds were silent and the surf was gentle. Our goal was to replicate exactly what you would hear if you were sitting on the beach on a warm, wind-free summer night. Our goal was to create a disc that would, when using repeat play, p --Joe Baker - producer of this disc

From the Artist
A great disc to use every night in the nursery.

Customer Reviews

file broken until further notice
I have tried to download this three times since 4/27/08 and each time the file ends abruptly at 20:08. The first 20 minutes sounds good, though...
I have contacted Amazon and they have refunded me and suggest calling mp3 support before attempting to download again. I don't see why they don't remove the link to the mp3 until it is fixed. I'm tempted to buy the disc but, $13 vs $1? I'll wait a little longer and try again and post when it is fixed...

File Fixed, Downloads Okay as of 11-23-2008
A previous post said the file was broken. It must be fixed now. I downloaded it and it works fine. I played it all the way through. It's a great recording.

Exactly what it says: calming
Your mileage with your baby may vary, but our little one found this very calming, and we found it an amazing replacement for the "hair dryer" recording we had been using previously. Even better, when I played it on our 6 channel surround system at just the right volume, you could forget you were listening to a recording, and it sort of sounded like I was vacationing near the ocean!

The long runtime was great too, back when she really needed a lot of help to sleep, she needed a LOT of help, and even the short space of quiet while the CD player jumped back to the beginning was not too jarring, as the recording is very gentle and relaxing. It ALMOST sounds like a break in the waves, if you couldn't hear the CD player ;)