By Jon D’Auria

Marcus Miller and Sire want to see everyone enjoying and playing music. To make this happen, Marcus Miller and Sire have been on a mission for past several years to build the best quality bass at a price that is unheard of and make it available to everyone. The result is a new line of Marcus Miller bass models that are awesome sounding, fantastic looking, and high quality but extraordinarily low priced.

The jazz bass design features either premium swamp ash or North American alder wood for the body, high quality premium Jazz bass pickups made with US-made Heavy Formvar coil, the new Marcus Miller heavy mass bridge that was designed and manufactured at the request of Marcus, top quality new Marcus Miller 3band eq/preamp system and a heavy mass saddle.

All of this is priced at a very reasonable $399 for 4-string models and $499 for 5-string models.

All models also come with sweepable midrange control option that Marcus Miller advocates as a must-have option. The middle frequency control knob allows the player to set sound frequency anywhere between 200HM~1K HZ. This option will be very handy in finding the desired sound.

The Marcus Miller Premium Jazz Bass pickup set is an upgraded pickup version made with US fomvar coil in order to reproduce the traditional vintage jazz bass sound. This pickup is made with fiber bobbin and alnico 5 magnets and also heavy formvar magnet wire that is also made in US. Marcus Miller Premium Jazz Bass pickup sets offer players to experience a rich and strong original vintage jazz bass tone.

SOURCE: http://www.bassplayer.com/gear/1164/sire-guitars-and-marcus-miller-unveil-the-affordable-v7-bass-series/51219