Dean Guitars Razorback Floyd Rose 6-String vs Steinberger M Series Electric Guitar

The Dean Guitars Razorback Floyd Rose 6-String and the Steinberger M Series Electric Guitar are both electric guitars. The Dean Guitars Razorback Floyd Rose 6-String leans tight and crunchy.

Similarity
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43% somewhat different

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Price

$4999.99via Reverb

Description

The Dean Razorback is an aggressively angular signature-style body shape from Dean Guitars, built for high-gain metal playing and fitted here with a Floyd Rose locking tremolo, allowing extreme dive-bomb and pitch-bend effects without the tuning instability a standard bridge would suffer under that kind of use. The shape and specification target metal players who need both extended-range playability and tremolo stability. Zakk Wylde, known for his work with Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society, is associated with Dean signature instruments of this kind.

The Steinberger M Series keeps the headless design and rear tuning system of the all-composite GL but builds the body from wood rather than graphite, which brought the price down and added conventional resonance. Fitted with EMG active pickups and, on many examples, the TransTrem — a vibrato that keeps the strings in relative tune when bent to a new pitch and locks at set intervals.

Genres
citedGenres this gear is documented as being used in.
  • Hard Rock
  • Rock
  • Metal
Tonal lean
  • tight
  • crunchy
  • sustaining

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