Melodic Dubstep Gear Used by Melodic Dubstep Artists
Drawn from the documented rigs of 94 melodic dubstep artists and the Equipboard community — ranked by real usage, not opinion.
The Gear That Shapes the Melodic Dubstep Sound
The essential categories, ranked by how much more melodic dubstep artists lean on them than the rest of Equipboard.
Most-Used Melodic Dubstep Gear
Counts are artists & fans on Equipboard who own or saved each item and are associated with melodic dubstep.
Melodic Dubstep Synth Plugins
10.9× site average
$99.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 37
#2 · Owned or saved by 26
$149.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#3 · Owned or saved by 17
#4 · Owned or saved by 15
$479.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
#5 · Owned or saved by 14
$69.99 - $189.00
in Synth Plugins Rank
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#6 · Owned or saved by 9
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Melodic Dubstep DAW Software
5.8× site average
$268.00 - $349.00
in DAW Software Rank
#1 · Owned or saved by 52
$179.00
in DAW Software Rank
#2 · Owned or saved by 21
#3 · Owned or saved by 19
$209.00 - $329.99
in DAW Software Rank
#4 · Owned or saved by 11
Gear That Defines Melodic Dubstep
Not just popular — disproportionately melodic dubstep. Multipliers compare usage among melodic dubstep 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.
Native Instruments Massive Synth
Synth Plugins
6.6× vs site-wide
2
Ableton Live
DAW Software
5.4× vs site-wide
3
Xfer Serum Advanced Wavetable Synthesizer
Synth Plugins
4.7× vs site-wide
4
Apple MacBook Pro (General)
Computers & Peripherals
3.9× vs site-wide
5
FabFilter Pro-Q 3
EQ Plugins
3.8× vs site-wide
6
iZotope Ozone 9
Mastering Plugins
3.6× vs site-wide
7
Image-Line FL Studio
DAW Software
3.4× vs site-wide
8
Native Instruments KONTAKT 6
Sampler Plugins
3.3× vs site-wide
9
Valhalla Room
Reverb Plugins
3.0× vs site-wide
10
Dada Life Sausage Fattener Plugin
Multi-Effect Plugins
2.8× vs site-wide
The Artists Behind the Data
This page is built from the documented rigs of melodic dubstep artists on Equipboard — a few of the 94:
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How We Built This Guide
Documented artist rigs
Every count starts with the sourced, evidence-backed gear of 94 melodic dubstep 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 melodic dubstep 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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