Jesse Brede

What gear is DeadMau5 using?

I had the pleasure to help Joel Zimmerman, aka DeadMau5, setup his gear not once but two times at the Austin Electronic Music Festival. Toddy B and I also opened the night and you can hear the last track I played just before DeadMau5 goes on in the below video.

DeadMau5 uses a very unique setup. He’s running Abelton Live on a 17″ G5 MacBook Pro ($2-3k) outputting to an Apoge Ensemble ($2k) soundcard. He’s using a 16×16 (256) Monome controller ($800) for what I’m not totally sure and a touch screen Lemur ($3k) made by Jazz Mutant to control his effects. He’s running 4 stereo outs from his Ensemble to whatever club mixer is at hand, in our case, a Pioneer DJM-800($1600) which was also setup with a Pioneer EFX-1000 ($800). As far as I could tell, he used everything that he brought and used it well.




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  1. What gear is DeadMau5 using? - Dallas Dance Music - Dallas nightlife, music, tickets, and more said on May 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am:

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  2. What gear is DeadMau5 using? - Dallas Dance Music - Dallas nightlife, music, tickets, and more said on May 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm:

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