Recording Object #10 - The Bells Bracelet

Hello everyone!

I have been playing around with a bells bracelet recording recently, and it turned into a fun experiment. I captured it with a pair of Basci Ucho mics in XY stereo, a SONY M10, and a shotgun mic. Then I started running it through plugins in real time: Wormhole (Zynaptiq) and Venom (WA Production) for smearing/pitch tricks, Spintracer and Traveler for Doppler/movement, plus some ultra comb filtering to push it into more sci-fi territory.

What started out sounding almost fairy-like slowly shifted into something alien and robotic. And that got me thinking: where’s the line between fantasy and sci-fi in sound design?

Obviously, the more you over-process a clean recording, the more it drifts toward sci-fi/robotic textures. Fantasy sounds can still be processed, but they need to keep their natural/organic elements so they feel grounded in nature or magic.

I love exploring that borderland, blending both genres and seeing what comes out. Sometimes you even end up with something otherworldly that doesn’t sit neatly in either box.