Marcus Miller D5 Alder-4 TS

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Electric Bass

  • Alder body
  • One-piece roasted maple neck
  • Roasted maple fretboard
  • Neck profile: C
  • Scale length: 34" (Long Scale)
  • Fretboard radius: 241 mm
  • Bone nut
  • Nut width: 42 mm
  • 20 Medium small frets
  • Pickup:1 Marcus Vintage-T Single Coil
  • 1 x Volume and 1 x tone control
  • Pickguard: Black
  • Vintage bridge
  • Chrome hardware
  • Colour: Tobacco Sunburst
  • Made by Sire
Available since August 2021
Item number 512877
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Tobacco
Soundboard Alder
Neck Maple
Fretboard Maple
Frets 20
Scale Long Scale
Pickup System T-Style
Elektronic Passive
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Incl. Gigbag No
$409
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Marcus Miller D5 Alder-4 TS
Thierry476 13.01.2023
Bonjour à tous !
Bon , au niveau finitions c'est du quasi parfait. n'en étant pas à ma première basse j avais pris la précaution d'acheter un jeu de corde avec, mais pour le moment je change rien. Ca sonne direct. Précision (lol) je joue direct sono avec un Hartke bassattack qui arrange vraiment les choses..mais bon...ça sonne. On ne s'embrouille pas avec 15 réglages. Volume+tona ..point. j'avais l'intention de changer le micro pour un Seymou&Ducan mais je vais attendre...Pour le moment tout va bien
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A whole lot of bass for the money!
Max Y. 19.10.2022
I have been looking into getting a P-bass but also something a little bit more weird, so I've been on the fence about this one for a good bit. Thomann had one in stock, I decided that I wanted to have a go. Spoilers: it was was a good choice.

Fit and finish came perfect in my case, whole thing is excellently put together, no flaws, nothing loose, crooked, or dinged. The body is lovely, made from two pieces on my example, with the seam running along at the level of the control plate. The body contour is comfortable. The bass is not lightweight (4,3 kg) and is a bit neck heavy, but it's not a boat anchor and sits well. I was never a big sunburst fan, but this one has me hooked, the reddish color is sweet.

Oh, the neck. The fretboard has gorgeous grain, the satin rear finish glides just right, and it does not feel too large at all. The fretwork is fine along the entire length. I think the telly-style thinner Sire headstock looks good on this one, and the roasted maple color helps with that too. Roasting is very even, inlays look good.

The hardware is okay, the tuners have some play and the bridge could have used a little longer intonation screws; they are stable enough, and I do like the control plate and the metal knobs.

The pickup! The electronics in this have been maligned in early reviews, described as anemic or weak - none of that in my y22w28 example. Sire clearly has changed the pickup somewhere along the way, and it is well-shielded and grounded, has a little single coil buzz, and yes, it's a bona fide two-wire single coil with good sound, unlike the early four-wire split coil examples you see on youtube. It took me a little bit to get used to the right hand position, as the pickup is vintage shaped with no real housing, just a wrap around the winding, so you can't rest your thumb on it. A pickguard screw became my guide point instead.

The neck relief was set okay, but string height was way too high, so the bass wasn't really playable out of the box, and needed a little bit of wrangling to bring the strings down. Not a tragedy, but it needs an allen key, a ruler, half an hour, and willingness to fiddle with your new toy before playing.

The D5 brings the sound, from a hollow clank to a full thump, and it's very responsive to hand position and tone pot. It's so bright, it works best at 80% tone for most cases, at least as long as the strings are somewhat fresh. Even acoustically the whole instrument is shrill and resonant, I cannot get enough of it, the wood feels very much alive.

Overall, I'd say you get a superbly playable neck, and quality assembly everywhere else, making up a bass that really, really wants to just go at it! Don't shell out a ton of money for a replacement pickup either just because you heard the stock one used to be bad - you might not need one after all.
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Parfait pour moi
Loleululo 06.05.2023
1 micro, 1 tone, 1 volume
Le bouton de tonalité est progressif et très utile, la basse est bien plus polyvalente qu'elle en a l'air grâce a lui !
La finition est très correcte pour le prix
Cela dit pour les slappeurs Je ne pense pas que ça soit adapté.
Des filets plats sont bien venus évidement sur ce type de basses.
Je recommande
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Genau was ich gesucht habe
Funkmachine73 27.06.2023
Nach vielen Jahren mit einem zu günstigen Einsteigerbass im JB-Stil wollte ich jetzt nochmal richtig auf dem Bass anfangen, suchte daher ein vernünftiges Gerät zu einem vernünftigen Preis und bin bei diesem Modell gelandet.

Was ich gesucht habe: ein klassisches Modell, gute Verarbeitung, und von der Ausstattung her richtig Basic ohne viel Spielerei, d.h. eher P-Bass Stil und passiv.

Ohne groß drum herum zu reden, beim Sire Marcus Miller D5 bin ich hier voll zufrieden und kann nur bestätigen, was in vielen Reviews im Netz schon zu finden ist:
+die Verarbeitung ist erstklassig. Bei der Lackierung kann ich keinerlei Macken finden außer ganz kleiner Nasen in der Fräsung für den Truss Rod, Korpus und Hals ansonsten tadellos.
+der Hals ist ein Traum mit den verrundeten Kanten und hervorragend verarbeiteten Bünden, außerdem gerade wie eine 1. Die Rückseite ist seidig-geschmeidig im Finish und top zu bespielen.
+aus dem Karton schon hervorragend eingestellt, lediglich die Intonation noch etwas feinjustiert und die Saitenhöhe für mich eingestellt, aber das sind Feinheiten bzw. persönliche Präferenz.
+der Pick-up brummt keine Spur, ich vermute, dass er als Split-coil ausgeführt ist, was ich irgendwo auch mal gelesen hatte. Als Single-coil müsste er sonst durch Einstreuung ordentlich Brummen.
+Sound! Ist natürlich Geschmackssache, für mich trifft er voll ins Schwarze.

Ein winziger Kritikpunkt, nur um es erwähnt zu haben:
-die Kopflastigkeit ist schon spürbar. Geht aber nicht in meine Sterne-Bewertung ein, da mir das aus Reviews vorher bekannt war, dies aufgrund der Mechaniken in dieser Preislage auch nicht ungewöhnlich ist, und durch einen geeigneten Gurt auch kein Problem darstellt.

Zuguterletzt: Auftragsverarbeitung und Versand durch Thomann wie gewohnt hervorragend.
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