Big Room Gear: Software, Studio Gear & DJ Gear Used by Big Room Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 164 big room artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Big Room Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more big room artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Big Room Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with big room.
Big Room Synth Plugins
10.8× site average
$149.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 69
#2 · Owned or saved by 47
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#3 · Owned or saved by 35
$69.99 - $189.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
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#4 · Owned or saved by 34
#5 · Owned or saved by 22
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 9
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Big Room DAW Software
4.4× site average
$268.00 - $349.00
in DAW Software Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 59
#2 · Owned or saved by 54
$179.00
in DAW Software Rank
#3 · Owned or saved by 48
$209.00 - $329.99
in DAW Software Rank
#4 · Owned or saved by 14
$225.00 - $599.00
in DAW Software Rank
#5 · Owned or saved by 7
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$409.00 - $499.00
in DAW Software Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 6
Big Room Active & Passive Monitors
8.7× site average-m.webp?v=1784331896)
$299.99
in Active & Passive Monitors Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 13
$281.08
in Active & Passive Monitors Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 11
$1,246.80
#3 · Owned or saved by 10
in Active & Passive Monitors Rank
#4 · Owned or saved by 10
$2,200.00
in Active & Passive Monitors Rank
#5 · Owned or saved by 9
$1,054.05
in Active & Passive Monitors Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 8
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Big Room DJ Controllers
10.5× site average
$800.00
in DJ Controllers Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 41
#2 · Owned or saved by 16
#3 · Owned or saved by 12
#4 · Owned or saved by 10
Big Room Computers & Peripherals
9.6× site average#1 · Owned or saved by 82
$1,319.55
in Computers & Peripherals Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 16
#3 · Owned or saved by 11
#4 · Owned or saved by 11
#5 · Owned or saved by 10
$69.59 - $79.00
in Computers & Peripherals Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 10
Big Room Headphones & In-Ear Monitors
10.9× site average
$117.00 - $149.95
in Headphones & In-Ear Monitors Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 37
$297.08
#2 · Owned or saved by 28
#3 · Owned or saved by 25
#4 · Owned or saved by 15
$125.00 - $134.99
in Headphones & In-Ear Monitors Rank
#5 · Owned or saved by 8
$129.00 - $199.99
in Headphones & In-Ear Monitors Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 7
Gear That Defines Big Room
Not just popular — disproportionately big room. Multipliers compare usage among big room 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.
Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
9.4× vs site-wide
2
reFX Nexus 2
Synth Plugins
7.7× vs site-wide
3
Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer
DJ Mixers
7.2× vs site-wide
4
Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus
DJ Controllers
6.9× vs site-wide
5
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
6.8× vs site-wide
6
Sennheiser HD 25 Headphones
Headphones & In-Ear Monitors
6.3× vs site-wide
7
V-Moda Crossfade M-100 Over-Ear Noise-Isolating Headphone
Headphones & In-Ear Monitors
5.9× vs site-wide
8
FabFilter Pro-Q 3
EQ Plugins
5.6× vs site-wide
9
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
4.8× vs site-wide
10
Nicky Romero Kickstart Sidechain Compression Plugin
Compressor Plugins
4.8× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of big room artists on Equipboard — a few of the 164:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 164 big room 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 big room usage to all of Equipboard — so a tuner everyone owns doesn't drown out the gear that makes this genre sound like itself.
Keep Exploring
Gear guides for genres in big room's orbit.