With both classic and modern feel and design, this new bass can produce the desired sound for all genres of music from soft to even strong metal grunge.
Swamp ash body
Premium Swamp Ash tone wood is usually found in higher priced instruments. Swamp Ash tone wood is known to produce a well-balanced tone. It is highly resonant and offers a nice balance of pleasant highs, firm lows, and a slightly scooped midrange which is great for slap playing.The characteristics of this wood enable players to emulate Marcus Miller’s tone a step further.
Solid Hard Maple Top
Finished with a solid hard maple top which are found only in premium guitars for a rich, vibrant, and clear tone
Marcus Pure-H Revolution pickups
The Marcus Miller Pure-H Humbucker (MMPH set) is a humbucker pickup set made with US Enamel coil. This humbucker-type pickup has a strong output that gives a punchy and solid mid-range sound. Marcus Pure-H humbucker Pickups feature a higher resolution and clearer sound.
Marcus Heritage-3 Preamp
A top notch 3-band EQ preamp to meet the needs of Marcus Miller’s versatility and to cover various styles of music. The active/passive mode option, together with the Humbucker Pickup Set with individual setting options (single, humbucker, and serial-parallel) are the core technology for the best sound quality and tone versatility
Marcus Miller Custom Big Mass 2 Bridge
Equipped with a newly designed heavy mass saddle bridge with a string-through body bridge mechanism that allows a tighter, more accurate, and stable tone.
Rolled Fretboard Edges
What only custom shops can achieve, is now on the Sire 2nd Gen. These rounded edges will give users a firmer and more natural grasp compared to other typical fretboards.
Specifications:
Body
body material: swamp ash + solid flame maple top
body shape: modern bass style
body color: transparent black
Neck
neck material: maple/mahogany one piece neck
neck shape: C-shape with rolled fingerboard edges
scale: 35"
neck joint: 4 bolt steel square plate
fingerboard: ebony
fingerboard radius: 12"
frets: 2.4mm medium, 24 frets
string nut: 5 string – bone nut 46mm width
inlay: white pearl dot
Electronics
pickups: Marcus pure-H revolution set
preamp: Marcus heritage-3 with middle frequency control
controls: volume/tone (dual pot) : pickup blender : treble : middle/middle frequency (dual pot) : bass, mini toggle (active/passive), 2 mini toggles (pickup series/split/parallel
Hardware
knobs: modern black aluminium
bridge: Marcus heavy mass custom
tuning gear: Sire diecasting gear
hardware finish: black
pick guard: none
