Future House Gear Used by Future House Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 134 future house artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Future House Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more future house artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Future House Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with future house.
Future House Synth Plugins
10.0× site average
$149.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 30
#2 · Owned or saved by 26
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#3 · Owned or saved by 19
$69.99 - $189.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
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#4 · Owned or saved by 17
#5 · Owned or saved by 16
$479.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#6 · Owned or saved by 5
Gear That Defines Future House
Not just popular — disproportionately future house. Multipliers compare usage among future 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.
Pioneer DJM-900 Nexus Mixer
DJ Mixers
6.4× vs site-wide
2
Pioneer CDJ-2000 Nexus
DJ Controllers
5.9× vs site-wide
3
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
5.7× vs site-wide
4
Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
5.6× vs site-wide
5
Xfer Serum Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
4.7× vs site-wide
6
Nicky Romero Kickstart Sidechain Compression Plugin
Compressor Plugins
4.5× vs site-wide
7
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
4.5× vs site-wide
8
FabFilter Pro-Q 3
EQ Plugins
4.1× vs site-wide
9
V-Moda Crossfade M-100 Over-Ear Noise-Isolating Headphone
Headphones & In-Ear Monitors
4.0× vs site-wide
10
Apple Logic Pro
DAW Software
3.7× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of future house artists on Equipboard — a few of the 134:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 134 future 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 future 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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