Deadmau5
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Deadmau5's Gear
Deadmau5 talks about his Z8000 in this video starting at 1:40 saying, "I love this sequencer, dude."
The Blofeld is seen in Deadmau5's studio on top of his Nord in this video.
The BBE 482i Sonic Maximizer is seen in the top left of the rack in the middle of the room.
The Moog Taurus 3 can be seen under Deadmau5's desk in this album.
At 1:42 Joel shows his Nord Rack 3 saying that he's become, "strangely familiar with."
Deadmau5 uses this midi controller throughout this video.
You can see two of the EL8-X compressors in this picture Joel shared to his Instagram account.
Two of these MIDI interfaces can be seen in this picture Joel shared to his Instagram account.
In this video at moment 4:13 you can see Deadmau5 using Xfer Serum.
Deadmau5 uses two of these filters (top left) in his eurorack modular synth along with many other modules!
In this video on Deadmau5's channel, he's playing with his Xone:3D.
At 10:44 in this video, on the stream of Deadmau5's screen, it can be seen that he is using Arp Monster from Cthulhu from Xfer Records.
In this Instagram picture, Deadmau5 shows his Mutable Instruments Clouds module, with the caption, "Yes!!! Shits about to get REAL interesting in the studio today :)"
In this Instagram photo, You can see three Traktor F1's sitting on Joel's Desk.
In this Instagram photo, an Erbe-Verb is shown surrounded by bubble wrap. The picture is captioned: "Errrrrbeverb!"
In a Twitter conversation between Oliver Heldens and Deadmau5, Deadmau5 states he's using the Eventide H4000. The conversation follows:
Heldens: "I wish I'd could make my mix sound like yours. At the sound checks when they play ur stuff I'm like damnn"
Deadmau5: "@OliverHeldens just get a neve MBP and you're all set."
Heldens: "@deadmau5 ok will check it out! And what reverbs do u use? I feel ur reverbs have to do a lot with it as well?"
Deadmau5: "@OliverHeldens still using the eventide H4000."
In a studio photo shared on Instagram, Deadmau5 showcases the Universal Audio LA-610 Mk II positioned below his audio interface and above another Universal Audio unit.
deadmau5 posted a picture of the synthesizer on Instagram and says "And in the spirit of synth porn... ;)"
In this video you can see Joel using the plugin around 02:38
In this video at 20:21 you can clearly see NI Rise & hit being used by Joel.
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Joel can be seen using this plugin at 4:30:11 in this YouTube video. Clearly on the screen
In this Twitch video, deadmau5 can be seen using the L2 Plugin for his master track at 7:45:46
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Since its release in 2009, Circle has become a popular soft-synth among big label producers like Hudson Mohawke, Arca, David Guetta and Deadmau5.
At around 10:30 min Eric and Joel discuss about using the amiga 500!
in this video at 2:31 you can see under VST Instruments a folder called ABL2
at 2:31 in the VST Instruments folder you can see a plugin at the bottom called REKT
at 2:46:14 of this video deadmau5 opens the tab GlitchMachines in his VST folder in ableton. polygon is one of the GlitchMachines plugins in the list
Joel can be seen with a Novation Impulse 49 at 0:40.
in this video, Deadmau5 is seen using 2 iPads. These are first generation iPads because the upload date of the video is 2010 when the iPad 1 was released.
An iPad Pro can be clearly seen on Joel's desk throughout the video.
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Discography
Vexillology
2006
Random Album Title
2008
Random Album Title (Unmixed Extended Versions)
2008
For Lack of A Better Name (The Extended Mixes)
2009
For Lack of a Better Name
2009
At Play Vol. 2
2009
At Play Vol. 3
2010
4x4=12
2010
At Play
2011
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2012
while(1<2)
2014
5 Years of mau5
2014
Album Credits
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Covers, Collaborations & Collages
Serj Tankian · 2025
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Strobe (Layton Giordani Remix)
Deadmau5 · 2024
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Familiars (From the Game 'World of Tanks Blitz')
Deadmau5 · 2024
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I Remember (John Summit Remix)
Kaskade & Deadmau5 & Kaskade · 2023
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