Sire Marcus Miller V5 Bass: Heritage Tones & Modern Versatility
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
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Throughout his illustrious, nearly 50-year long career, Marcus Miller has lent his skills as a legendary bassist, songwriter, and clarinetist to the works of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Luther Vandross, and countless others, featured on more than 500 records playing bass alone. Now, decades of groundbreaking artistry have been distilled into the indelible Sire Marcus Miller V5 4-string bass, pulling specific design cues from Marcus’s favorite ’70s basses to serve a versatile suite of tonal possibilities. Marcus came by Sweetwater to chop it up with Mitch Gallagher and show us what this bass can do. Check it out!
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The first bass player that I ever noticed and split out the bass track track in my mind, was John Paul Jones.
All of it really. Good Times Bad Times if I had to be specific. I remember thinking " What's all that stuff going on behind Jimmy Page's solo?"
"Before you touch anything, you can do it with your fingers." - Marcus Miller, 2023
The idea that we NEED multiple basses is new and encouraged by the internet. I love that Marcus advocates focusing on one bass! I have two and while one was in for repair I bonded much more with the other bass
Good guy Marcus has a vested interest in selling you as many of his signature basses as possible, yet he advocates for sticking to a single instrument. Huge props to him.
Sires have really changed the game ❤
One week into having my V5 4 string. Great value purchase.
For sure he is my favourite bass player! ..and I love those sire bass guitars!
☑ nice love these Sire bass _have purchased two of them recently V7 and V7 Vintage [and I'm an acoustic guitar fingerstyle player] 👌❗ Groove ON MM 👍🙌
I miss my brother Marcus 😊new bass sounds great 👍
What a great video. I have a V7 vintage 5. w/EMGs, a simpler preamp and a Gotoh quickrelease brass bridge. I love it. But I still might get a V5 it sounds like my souped up V7 without all the electronics. I just wish the pickups were humcancelling for when I want to favor one of the pickups.
*Super! It was amazing!*
❤ It sounds good, Nice And brilliant
Personally I prefer V5 to V7
I just want to buy this bass and put on it the D'Addario flats :))))
Hey Sweetwater and or Marcus Miller, can someone please ask Sire to make a yellow V3p?
PANTHER! ... 🐅
Nice
I am probably going to get fried here in the comments but here goes.
I find the build on the bass actually very good for the money - I would agree.
I think the tone is definitely more oriented toward modern tones for slap and funk - that type of music.
I play old 60s and 70s folk rock, blues and psych rock, bluegrass and I find it to be too bright and to quote low end: lobster too “clanky” - his words in tonality.
I spent a huge amount of time trying to dial in the tone I wanted using a high-end amp with tube preamp going through all the settings, including using the preamp on the bass. This was on a P8 bass.
I got close. I got very close, but not exactly the sound I was looking for.
Also, I ran into build problems and Sweetwater 55 point inspection failed.
There were build issues on the bass that were missed. I will call these obvious build issues that were missed , and then following up with Sire it took them over a week to ship out a simple part, a simple knob, and when we asked again for that, they sent the the wrong knob the second time, so I RMAd the bass back to Sweetwater - and they have been very good to support my decision to send the bass back and my sales engineer has been very good and support has been good as well. Though not great. Their support reps need to be trained a little bit better on what to say and what not to say to customers. it took their head of customer success to actually call me and work through the issue to try to get this resolved. That’s way too much effort for a single instrument sale.
I’m sticking with my Ibanez, SR 1005EWN neck through five string with Bartolini soap bar, pick ups and vari-mid EQ.
It is perfect for the music I’m playing.
The Sire basses are beautiful and if you’re willing to put up with drops on the support side for both Sweetwater and sire and the music you’re playing lends itself to Marcus Miller type sounds you’re gonna love their basses.
Probably a silly question--you weren't "fried" for you comments, but I might be for this question: did you try a different set of strings or two to see if that might help give you your desired tone? I know...who wants to spend more money when we're already trying to keep costs down by buying this bass, right? But, just curious. I've been doing some research on the V5 bass, trying to see if I should pull the trigger or not. I find your detailed comments helpful, so thanks! (I also wonder if the rosewood fretboard might add a smidge of depth?).
I currently play a P-bass, which I love. Sadly had to sell my Geddy Lee J-bass (not into playing Rush but loved the bass's tone out of my old SVT, which is also gone). My only issue with a J is the tapered neck and narrower nut width. (If I had the resources, I'd slap a P-bass neck on a J and make sure the J has independent tone and volume knobs.)
nice
What eq Settings was he using during the intro riff?
MARCUS MILLER HANDS :))))))
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
To me those black n’gold colors “sound” more New Orleans Saints
Marcus. Wherenis my sire bass 5 string. Hehehehehehe.
Making yet another passive jazz bass is hardly a revolution. Design, roasted maple and colour look amazing but how about placing both pickups closer to the neck, an inch or so nearer, to create a bass that makes even Marcus sound fresh and which doesn't sound so generic. I guarantee it would sound awesome and might even tempt Sire J bass owners to buy a second Sire 👍
Closer pickups would not sound good
These are not some slapped my name on it signature models of old its an entire eco system based on 70's Fender basses. The P bass sounds good too. I'm torn by all the choices of finish and neck style. When I first saw them four or five years ago it seemed gimmicky typical flash in the NAMM stuff lol. I was wrong. These are detail obssesive mid seventies bass repros on par with the MIMs maybe even better. Even if you arent a jazz or fusion player the versatility is there for all styles. Suitable replacements for your scarce original.