It's not an instrument. You can get that effect simply by playing two identical samples at slightly different pitch. Of course, modern production software has these effects built in. I'm just oldschool :)
So in this case, I'd have a straight sample of the bass + drum solo. I'd play the sample twice, both have identical track panning, but one is played a few hz lower than the other.
I disagree. Derailing a thread sounds like a great idea. We should do it more often.
That being said, I have a question. I have some video files which, at one point in time, played audio. Now, those same files produce silence when I try to watch them. It seems to me that the codecs to play these video files changed, and thus the audio no longer works. My question is, what can I do about this? Who can I ask, or what site(s) should I check out, to figure out how to "convert" these files into something that actually plays correctly. Or, how can I play them correctly, without converting them (that'd be preferred. After all, converting a lossy file to a lossy file produces even more loss...)? I doubt anyone here has any good ideas regarding video files, but I was hoping that someone would at least be able to tell me where else I could go (excluding Google... I'm looking for a site/forum/chat room that deals with all kinds of video codecs, in the hope that their knowledge base will be large enough to pin-point the exact problem/codec these video files have) to ask this question to someone more knowledgeable.
Also, just kidding about derailing threads. I just felt this would have been funny, and it was a question I wanted to ask anyway. Mouser X over and out.
Yeah I'd use GSpot. It should tell you which codec is being used to render the audio (or hopefully which codec is failing at it). Failing that, Winamp might be able to do the same thing (bring up the file properties while it's playing, then it should list the codecs used to play it) in a different way.
Assuming one of those work, you can then use this tool: http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/2543-radlight-filter-manager-v16/ To figure out what codec that correlates to. Now, back in XP, codecs were a simple matter of assigning priorities, so you'd assign the codec you know that works for decoding the audio a higher number, or the one that's currently breaking your video files a lower number. But since Vista that's all gone kaput because Microsoft are of course freaks that like to obfuscate everything. I've never had any success using this tool to change the 'merit' of codecs, probably because I mostly have no idea what's going on, but the tool does list the directory/filename of the offending codec, which in my experience renaming/deleting usually fixes all my problems :) It's not very scientific, but it works.