Dutch House Gear Used by Dutch House Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 52 dutch house artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Dutch House Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more dutch house artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Dutch House Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with dutch house.
Dutch House Synth Plugins
8.4× site average
$149.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 30
#2 · Owned or saved by 25
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#3 · Owned or saved by 14
$69.99 - $189.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#4 · Owned or saved by 11
#5 · Owned or saved by 10
$479.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 5
Gear That Defines Dutch House
Not just popular — disproportionately dutch house. Multipliers compare usage among dutch 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.
Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
5.6× vs site-wide
2
Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer
DJ Mixers
5.4× vs site-wide
3
reFX Nexus 2
Synth Plugins
5.2× vs site-wide
4
Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus
DJ Controllers
4.7× vs site-wide
5
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
4.5× vs site-wide
6
V-Moda Crossfade M-100 Over-Ear Noise-Isolating Headphone
Headphones & In-Ear Monitors
3.6× vs site-wide
7
Pioneer HDJ-2000 Headphones
Headphones & In-Ear Monitors
3.6× vs site-wide
8
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
3.3× vs site-wide
9
FabFilter Pro-Q 3
EQ Plugins
3.1× vs site-wide
10
Dada Life Sausage Fattener Plugin
Multi-Effect Plugins
2.9× vs site-wide
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The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of dutch house artists on Equipboard — a few of the 52:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 52 dutch 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 dutch 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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