Sleigh Bells/Confusion

            This week’s sound effect is intended to convey a feeling of confusion.  I was inspired by an episode of Breaking Bad where the end credits are set to the sound of a bell being manipulated.  What I did was take a recording of some sleigh bells that I had and try to create the same type of effect that I heard in the show. 

            I’ll walk through my process here.  The original is just a simple recording, so set up 3 Aux inputs in ProTools all bussed to the same track.  Each aux has its own frequency modulator set up to it: one set to higher frequency, one set to lower, and one set to quickly go back and forth between a high and low. I recorded the faders of the high and low frequency modulators to be pretty much opposite of each other (while one goes up, the other down) at random.  Then I made the up/down one simply raise throughout the recording. In my opinion, this could represent a type of wandering confused feeling if used correctly.  Once again, this is just an experiment that I hope you have found useful.