Gaming Edm Gear Used by Gaming Edm Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 94 gaming edm artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Gaming Edm Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more gaming edm artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Gaming Edm Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with gaming edm.
Gaming Edm Synth Plugins
12.0× site average
$149.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 31
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 27
#3 · Owned or saved by 26
#4 · Owned or saved by 17
$69.99 - $189.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
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#5 · Owned or saved by 13
#6 · Owned or saved by 10
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Gaming Edm DAW Software
6.8× site average
$179.00
in DAW Software Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 48
$268.00 - $349.00
in DAW Software Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 41
#3 · Owned or saved by 18
$209.00 - $329.99
in DAW Software Rank
#4 · Owned or saved by 11
$99.00 - $399.99
in DAW Software Rank
#5 · Owned or saved by 7
Gear That Defines Gaming Edm
Not just popular — disproportionately gaming edm. Multipliers compare usage among gaming edm 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.
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
6.9× vs site-wide
2
Lennar Digital Sylenth1 Software Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
5.7× vs site-wide
3
Native Instruments Massive Synth
Synth Plugins
5.0× vs site-wide
4
Native Instruments KONTAKT 6
Sampler Plugins
4.7× vs site-wide
5
Ableton Live
DAW Software
4.3× vs site-wide
6
FabFilter Pro-Q 3
EQ Plugins
3.8× vs site-wide
7
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
3.6× vs site-wide
8
iZotope Ozone 9
Mastering Plugins
3.4× vs site-wide
9
Valhalla Room
Reverb Plugins
3.3× vs site-wide
10
Dada Life Sausage Fattener Plugin
Multi-Effect Plugins
3.1× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of gaming edm artists on Equipboard — a few of the 94:
How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 94 gaming edm 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 gaming edm 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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