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What gear is DeadMau5 using?

Posted in Reviews, Images, Videos, Gear, News, Events on May 4, 2008

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.




7 Responses to “What gear is DeadMau5 using?”

  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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  3. linda sheppard said on October 8th, 2008 at 3:48 am:

    i think his music is so awesome and how he does it.

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  5. einar said on January 4th, 2009 at 6:27 am:

    im interrested in making my own electro songs, but i have no clue what equipment i should get and how much it would cost.
    the songs i usually like is made by deadmau5,dirty south, buzzmania,klaas and horny united.

    i like futuristic dirty electro, vintage nintendo sounds thats twisted,i wanna play dirty modern electro.
    i need everything, a new keyboard, computer,software and other hardware.
    i wanna stay low on budget, but i would sell my car if i had to.. plz email me!
    ieinar@ymail.com

  6. Chris said on May 21st, 2009 at 9:32 am:

    im to interrested in making my own electro songs. i need everything, a new keyboard, computer,software and other hardware.
    i wanna stay low on budget. Mail me! chris.augustsson@live.se

  7. What DJ Gear Does Deadmau5 use? | DJViBE.com said on May 24th, 2009 at 8:40 am:

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