Sire Marcus Miller V5 Bass: Heritage Tones & Modern Versatility 

Which records have your favorite bass parts? Tell us in the comments about some low-end licks that deserve more love, and be sure to head over to Sweetwater to check out the Sire Marcus Miller V5 4-string bass! 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/Sire-Marcus-Miller-V5-Bass

"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

Sires have really changed the game ❤

One week into having my V5 4 string. Great value purchase.

☑ 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 👍🙌

*Super! It was amazing!*

I miss my brother Marcus 😊new bass sounds great 👍

Personally I prefer V5 to V7

❤ It sounds good, Nice And brilliant

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.

Hey Sweetwater and or Marcus Miller, can someone please ask Sire to make a yellow V3p?

I just want to buy this bass and put on it the D'Addario flats :))))

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.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers? To me those black n’gold colors “sound” more New Orleans Saints

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What eq Settings was he using during the intro riff?

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 👍