Customer Reviews

Sounds of the Earth: Wolves

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This CD is unique and top notch because it 1) has no man-made musical or voice effects, 2)has natural sounds found in the habitat of the wolf. This CD takes you to the wolves, so to speak. In doing so, you feel the lonely cries, the active nature of the pack, and a connection to nature.

Wonderful sounds of a wolf pack not bothered by man. Individuals calling to others and the pack welcoming home the travelers. The calls bring to mind the hard life, the cold that they endure, but that they have their pack and are not alone. The sounds are so great that one can almost see the activites the wolves are engaged. There is one section with the young cubs that had my bulldog up and off the sofa and looking for those cubs. Any CD that can move my bulldog and pug to activity is a keeper. Also, the wind sound is EXCELLENT best quality I have ever heard, it reminds one of a Texas Blue Norther. It would be great if they released a wind CD. A great CD for anyone interested in sounds of nature in the wild and well worth the money.

If you are a lover of wolves you will love this one. You first hear the wind and then a lone wolf in the distance. As the cd plays on you hear louder wolf cries. Sometimes you hear one, sometimes you hear several. This has no music in the background to distract from the sounds of the wolves. It's a must have if you love wolves.

This CD consists of a single, 67-minute track containing a mixture of wolf voices and wind. The quality of the audio recording is excellent. I did notice, however, that to get 67 minutes of sound, the producers of the CD seem to have looped some of the wolf segments several times. There's also a very long stretch in the middle where most of what you hear is wind, with the (same recognizable) wolf segments being played at a lower volume to give the impression of distance.

Bottom line: This is definitely better than recordings that combine wolf voices with New Age Muzak. At the same time, it is very much a produced, orchestrated "musical experience" rather than an actual record of wolf interactions.

Loved the sound of the wind in this CD, & agree w/ other reviewers that this company should make a CD of "wind sounds." If you want a CD to relax to while sitting in a chair, then this should be a good choice. However, if you are buying this CD to listen to as you fall asleep (as I did), then you're making the wrong choice. There is one howl where the wolf apparently comes close to the microphone, & the volume of his howl is loud enough to wake you up. This howl is looped into the CD in several places. Also, being an avid outdooresman that (many a time) has fallen asleep to the distant howl of coyotes in the Rockies, there is a good bit of looping in this CD. The exact same howls are repeated several times throughout the CD. For that reason + the lone howl at too high a volume for falling asleep, I only gave it 3 stars.

It is all and more than I expected. Oh my God the sound of the wind and the wolves are realistic. My dog and cats can't figure out where the howls and cries are coming from. So glad I came across this cd online.

I bought this to try to get my husky to howl. I just wanted wolves howling, without music. It's mostly howling, but it also has very subtle music at times. I also found myself having to fast forward alot because I would get to a good part, and upon rewinding accidentally bump the button again to go to the beginning. I was sometimes a half hour in! annoying.

It's not bad if you don't mind the music and lack of tracks.

I am a professional audio engineer and I must admit that this is the worst "ambient/nature" CD I have ever listened to. It contains less than 10-minutes of wolf howls, the remainder of the CD is looped. The wind is completely fake in the sense that it did not occur when the wolves were recorded. It was clearly added after the fact. Also, the wind sounds like it was recorded on top of Mt Everest with a constant speed about 60 + MPH. I have done some research on wolves while I was in college and I'm pretty sure they would not be howling (especially the wolf cubs) in wind that intense. Not only that, but there is no way anyone could hear them! After listening to the entire disk I decided to send it back. Total crap!