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r/synthesizers

The place to obsess about synthesizers, both hardware and software. Founded 2009 · 482.2K members

483.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.2K upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
483.7Kmembers
8.2Kbest post
543most comments
899posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

32% 24% 17% 16%
Video 32% Text 24% Question 17% Image 16% Link 6% Gallery 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Performances, Jams 177 Discussion 168 Beginner Questions 128 What Should I Buy? 106 My Setup / New Synth Day 99 How To's, Tutorials, Demos 27 DIY / Repair 25 Synth ID / How was this made? 24 Tech Support 20 New Synth Announcements & Updates 20

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

My 77 year old Dad recently finished his home made Synthesizer

↑ 8.2K 💬 507 gallery 2025

Son did these for art project at school

↑ 5.7K 💬 251 image 2024

I just got my first synth!

↑ 5.4K 💬 260 image 2026

Vale Daft Punk -Waldorf Vocoder

↑ 4.6K 💬 82 video 2021

Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna Eurovision 2026

↑ 4.5K 💬 311 image 2026

Me in 1985 demonstrating a Casio CZ101 connected to a Commodore C64 running MIDI sequencing software. I still have all of this gear and it still work…

↑ 4.5K 💬 179 image 2020

Today I found a very dirty TR909 at a flea market in Belgium for an absolute steal.

↑ 3.8K 💬 288 image 2025

Ozzy Osbourne fighting with his ARP 2600

↑ 3.7K 💬 170 video 2025

Paid $108.25 for this today at a pawn because it wasn’t making any sound. I got it home set it to local and it worked

↑ 3.7K 💬 301 gallery 2025

Found a Moog White Elephant

↑ 3.5K 💬 173 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/synthesizers, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/synthesizers?
r/synthesizers describes itself this way: The place to obsess about synthesizers, both hardware and software. It was founded in 2009 and has 482.2K members.
How many members does r/synthesizers have?
r/synthesizers has about 483.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 899 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.2K upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/synthesizers?
"My 77 year old Dad recently finished his home made Synthesizer" reached 8.2K upvotes and 507 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/synthesizers.
What subreddits are similar to r/synthesizers?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite.
What kind of posts do best on r/synthesizers?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are video posts and 24% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/synthesizers?
Across 899 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/synthesizers?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/synthesizers has 2.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/synthesizers, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.