Bass House Gear Used by Bass House Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 178 Bass house artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Bass House Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more Bass house artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Bass House Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with Bass house.
Bass House DAW Software
5.0× site average
$268.00 - $349.00
in DAW Software Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 35
$179.00
in DAW Software Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 24
#3 · Owned or saved by 17
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$409.00 - $499.00
in DAW Software Rank
#4 · Owned or saved by 6
Gear That Defines Bass House
Not just popular — disproportionately Bass house. Multipliers compare usage among Bass house artists & fans to usage across all of Equipboard, so gear everyone owns doesn't crowd out the gear that makes this genre sound like itself.
Xfer Serum Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
4.3× vs site-wide
2
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
4.1× vs site-wide
3
Ableton Live
DAW Software
3.9× vs site-wide
4
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
3.9× vs site-wide
5
Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer
DJ Mixers
3.1× vs site-wide
6
FabFilter Pro-Q 3
EQ Plugins
3.0× vs site-wide
7
Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus
DJ Controllers
3.0× vs site-wide
8
Native Instruments Massive Synth
Synth Plugins
3.0× vs site-wide
9
Nicky Romero Kickstart Sidechain Compression Plugin
Compressor Plugins
2.8× vs site-wide
10
Pioneer CDJ-2000
DJ Controllers
2.8× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of Bass house artists on Equipboard — a few of the 178:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 178 Bass house artists on Equipboard — interviews, photos, and rig breakdowns, not guesswork.
Community signal
Saves and gear-photo tags from players who love this genre add weight, so the lists reflect who actually plays this stuff.
Distinctive, not just popular
We compare Bass house usage to all of Equipboard — so a tuner everyone owns doesn't drown out the gear that makes this genre sound like itself.
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