Marcus Miller V5 Alder-5 TS

5-String Electric Bass

Body: Alder
One-piece maple neck
Fretboard: Roasted maple
Neck profile: C
Scale: 34" (Long scale)
Fretboard radius: 241 mm (9.5")
Nut width: 46 mm
Bone nut
20 Medium Small Frets
String spacing: 18 mm
Pickup: 2 Marcus Vintage-J Revolution Jazz single coils
2 Volume controls and one tone control
Vintage bridge
Chrome hardware
Colour: Tobacco Sunburst
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Available since October 2020
Item number 492595
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Colour Tobacco
Body Alder
Neck Roasted Maple
Fingerboard Roasted Maple
Frets 20
Scale Longscale
Pickup System JJ
Electronics Passive
Including Case No
Incl. Gigbag No

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Sire: high quality, low price

Stefan van Rrrrrr 22.06.2021

Looking for a reasonably priced passive 5-string jazz bass? This could be the one for you. Important side note: the neck on this 5-string is stable, comfortable and a beauty, but it's also really heavy. Tricky to balance, in my experience. I tried it out extensively and found the following:

5 out of 5 in terms of features, especially taking the price into account. The roasted maple neck is sooo comfortable, and it looks really tasty on top of that. Body shape and color exceed their price range as well if you ask me, definitely more impressive in real life than on the promo photo's.

Sound: 3/5. This is a passive bass so the output level and versatility might leave a bit to desire compared to the rest of the Sire V7 for instance. It is okay, but for me it just didn't cut it. This was supposed to be my main 5-string, as I usually play 4, but I couldn't quite get the sound I wanted. 100% down to taste. Credit where credit's due: it does sound like a Jazz.

Build quality: 4/5. As mentioned, the neck feels GREAT. Rolled edges for. the. win! The only thing keeping it from being 5/5, is fine detail.

All in all, I would recommend the V5 but I would also absolutely mention the weight of the neck as the main weak point, which made me decide to return it.

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Dperraud 31.12.2022

From the Large Varity of basses from Sire, it was hard to take decission what to chose, The V5 was the number One Pick, as Iam a Passive bass player, first impression when see the bass was completely mind blowing, good sound, the fret board is very comfortable, good hardware, Easy to play, without a dout this bass is a good value for money, thank SIRE

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Good bones - Trebly sound

backinjack 09.10.2024

Decent looking bass. The body colour is more brown than shown on this site. The pictures on the Sire website are more accurate.
The Sire V5 has the basic features a passive jazz bass should have. I´ve only played it sitting down, in the classical guitar position, and in this position there´s not even a hint of neck-dive.
The sound isn´t to my liking at all. It has a trebly quality to it that remains very audible even with tone turned quite a bit down. It sounds nicer at 20 % tone than 100%, but not good in my ears. I´d have to replace the pickups and possibly the control plate to be happy with it. If you, unlike me, dig Marcus Millers trebly slap-tone, then this could be a bass for you.
The quality of the bass seems good. The neck pocket looks well routed and the neck plays comfortably. The fret edges have been filed quite well, and cannot be felt while playing.
I can´t really recommend the V5, for reason stated. There´s another passive Sire bass I can recommend, namely the P5 R vintage P-bass. It has a darker sounding pickup than the regular P5 and a rosewood fingerboard. I think it´s great, and probably the only reason I´m not buying it, is that I want a two-pickup bass.

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Denis5 22.10.2021

Si vous trouvez comme moi que votre V7 a trop de boutons (une electronique trop presente et trop compliquée), alors cette V5 est faite pour vous .La finition est remarquable ( bien plus jolie que la photo du site). Ma V7 est une première génération et j’ai l’impression que le manche est légèrement plus épais sur la V5....Le poids est raisonnable. Elle sonne beaucoup bien mieux qu’une V7 jouée en passif car l’electronique envahissante et l’usage de piles sur la v7 ,font
que je joue toujours en passif et en passif sur la v7
on a très peu de réglages: on a le volume et une balance micros ,les autres boutons sont inopérants ,et surtout le niveau de sortie est supérieur avec une V5 par rapport à une V7 en passif .
Rapport qualité prix imbattable.
Après quelques mois d’utilisation, je reviens compléter mon évaluation, je suis très très content de ma V5,le seul point négatif est le manche qui,j’en suis persuadé, est plus épais que le manche de ma V7 1ère génération ,donc moins confortable......
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