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At one point in a YouTube video of Diplo in the studio he says "when I use logic, I use all stock plugins"

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In this video, Diplo is shown playing around with Ableton 9.

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In this video by Native Instruments, Diplo talks about his use of NI Komplete. He specifically mentions why he likes MASSIVE, BATTERY and KONTAKT, which are components of the Komplete software suite.

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Diplo's home studio is at 2:31 in the video and clearly shows a Sequential Prophet 6, Moog Grandmother, and Mellotron M4000D.

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Diplo shares that he started making music with acid.

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Diplo's home studio is at 2:31 in the video and clearly shows a Sequential Prophet 6, Moog Grandmother, and Mellotron M4000D.

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As a featured artist of Apogee, Diplo talks about using the Apogee Quartet in a YouTube video.

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These impressive looking studio monitors can be seen in Diplo's studio.

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Teenage Engineering OP-1 can be seen on Diplo's Instagram: "Huge spuds out to @jugendingenieur OP-1 arrived safe"

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Diplo said he used Bitspeek for lots of drops in 2014-2015 "... so may great plugs in that .. a like a lot of cooler small plugs i find like bitspeak that i used to make a lot of drops last year.. i could go into it all day on here but Facebook would not be very into it.."

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Diplo uses a 6176 Vintage Channel Strip in his vocal chain.

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A Mac Pro can be spotted in Diplo's studio.

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Diplo talks about using Izotope Ozone 6 on this artist page, stating, "I can't do what I do without Ozone."

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In a reddit AMA diplo responds to a question about is favourite synth with "on that serum right now"

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In the description it say's ''Endless Smile is already being used by Steve Angello, Zedd, Tritonal, Axwell, Deniz Koyu, Hardwell, Thomas Gold, Diplo, Chris Lake, Above & Beyond, Blasterjaxx, GTA, Bassjackers, TJR, Bingo Players, Tommy Trash and many other DJ/producers''

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When asked about his favorite piece of musical equipment, Diplo says:

"Right now it's the Kaossilator. I can take it on tour and make cool LFO and people think I'm, like, Justice up there. It's even got funky slap bass...not a key, just a touch screen."

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"Then I borrowed an E-mu SP-1200 from System D-128, [an avant-garde multi-media artist] from Florida who helped me learn about producing."

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Diplo wearing the Sennheiser HD 280 Headphones while producing music on the train.

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Diplo talks about using iZotope Stutter Edit on this artist page, stating, "How is Stutter Edit to use? Rad. The live triggering of effects allows a musical approach to editing that really encourages experimentation. It sounds great on everything: vocals, synth bass, guitars, drums, even entire mixes."

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In a YouTube video titled "Diplo about Native Instruments KOMPLETE," Diplo discusses his appreciation for the versatility of the Native Instruments Massive Synth, highlighting its role in his music production.

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Sylenth1 can be seen at 1:28 in the video.

In this Instagram video Diplo's Native Instruments KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 can be seen in the background.

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Diplo can be seen wearing Beats Pro headphones in this photo of him performing live.

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Diplo is seen wearing the SK Pro headphones in white and orange in the video Skullcandy Sessions #4: Diplo.

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"My first 'real' set up was an Akai S20 that I stole from [a music store] in Orlando. I was so nervous I didn’t leave my house for a week because I thought the police were waiting outside!"

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When asked if he has any Universal Audio analog gear int he studio, Diplo responded "Yeah, in our studios we have both a 6176 Vintage Channel Strip and a reissue 1176LN set up in our vocal chain. Much of the vocals on the record were recorded through those. Usually we’ll track with very light compression via those two components, so we are almost always choosing the UAD Powered Plug-Ins versions again later for the final mix or further sound design."

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A pair of Focal SM9 sit on stands behind the desk in this photo of Diplo's studio, captioned "I'm in your house @diplo". This photo was uploaded by Australian duo What So Not to their Facebook page on 22 February 2014.

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Diplo runs Serato software on his MacBook Pro while performing live.

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At 03:06 in this video entitled "Bieber, Diplo and Skrillex Make a Hit", you can see the CLA Vocals plugin used in Diplo's Ableton session, on the top-most track.

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At the question "What do you love about Mixed In Key?", Diplo says "Everything". From the official website of Mixed In Key.

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