I’ve cut a short clip of RD / RA (Demo) which focuses on that part of the song. If anyone wants to give that a quick listen and pitch in their thoughts on what it might be, replies are of course enabled!

Personally I was confused at first, because I only heard one percussion instrument here. But after a few listens, I managed to make out that it is indeed a quiet tappy snare playing in sync with a louder much more wooden noise. Alas, the nature of either entirely eludes me. Since this was a demo, though, I wouldn’t expect anything particularly fancy of these instruments, so they may be in default sound packs for FL Studio or the like

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