Dean Guitars at Studio Gears

Dean has built a decades-long reputation for delivering high-output instruments purpose-built for heavy music, and Studio Gears currently carries a focused selection anchored by the Exile Select Burled Poplar Top. Loaded with an EMG 81/85 active pickup set, this guitar tracks with surgical clarity through a DAW — tight low-end articulation on downtuned riffs, precise attack for fast picking passages, and minimal noise floor interference in a recording environment.

The bolt-on construction with an alder and poplar body, ebony fretboard, Tune-O-Matic bridge, and string-through anchoring translates to excellent sustain and note separation — qualities that cut through dense mixes in metal, hard rock, progressive, and djent productions. At the $1,099 price point, it represents a direct path to a session-ready, genre-specific instrument without compromise.