The bass is designed in a vintage style and has all the typical features of the Jazz Bass with which Marcus Miller is most often associated. The body made of select swamp ash is more often seen on instruments up to three times more expensive, but this is also part of the aforementioned concept. The wood has a typical, full-bodied jazz bass sound with a distinctive midrange. The body is covered by a solid maple top with a decorative veneer. The maple fingerboard with a bone zero fret delivers clean and clear highs, and the edges of the fingerboard are now rounded for a more comfortable grip. Both the open tuning machines and the vintage adjustable string spacing headstock are chrome plated. The grasshopper allows the strings to be pulled through the body for a tighter, more stable tone.
A common annoyance with cheaper basses is that the two pickups are identical in design. In this case, the pickup and neck pickup use different types of magnets and coils so that the sound reproduced matches their placement. The core of the bass is undoubtedly the richly featured active electronics, with a three-band EQ, a volume control between the pickups, and a combined tone diaphragm and overall volume potentiometer. In addition to boosting and attenuating the mids, the combination control for the mids also offers a specific frequency selection in the 80 Hz - 2 kHz range. The bass is sonically very versatile and finds its use in all musical genres.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Natural
- Colour: Natural
- Surface Treatment: Gloss
- Type: JB
- Body: Ash
- Top: Maple
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Neck: Maple
- Electronics: Active
- Number of Strings: 4
- Scale: 864 mm
- Neck Profile: C
- Radius: 9,5 "
- Number of Frets: 24
- Nut Width: 38 mm
- Pickup Configuration: S-S
- Pickup model: 2x Marcus Super-J Revolution
- Controls: 1x Volume/Tone, 1x Blend, 1x Treble, 1x Middle/Middle Frequency, 1x Bass
- Tuning Machines: Sire
- Hardware: Chrome
- Hard Case: No
- Case: No
- Country of Production: Indonesia