Deathstep Gear Used by Deathstep Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 196 Deathstep artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Deathstep Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more Deathstep artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Deathstep Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with Deathstep.
Deathstep Synth Plugins
10.0× site average
#1 · Owned or saved by 42
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 32
#3 · Owned or saved by 8
#4 · Owned or saved by 6
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$95.00 - $99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#5 · Owned or saved by 6
$199.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 5
Gear That Defines Deathstep
Not just popular — disproportionately Deathstep. Multipliers compare usage among Deathstep 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
7.0× vs site-wide
2
Native Instruments Massive Synth
Synth Plugins
5.7× vs site-wide
3
Ableton Live
DAW Software
4.6× vs site-wide
4
Disciple Samples Stay Home And Create
Free Samples
4.5× vs site-wide
5
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
4.1× vs site-wide
6
Pioneer CDJ-2000
DJ Controllers
3.5× vs site-wide
7
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
3.1× vs site-wide
8
Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer
DJ Mixers
3.0× vs site-wide
9
iZotope Ozone 9
Mastering Plugins
2.7× vs site-wide
10
Native Instruments KONTAKT 6
Sampler Plugins
2.5× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of Deathstep artists on Equipboard — a few of the 196:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 196 Deathstep 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 Deathstep 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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