Tone Floor
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ToneFloor™
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Dud someone mention Floor?
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Thanks, @Al1885.
I almost pulled the trigger on that Fender MM Signature model last year, but I’d owned a 70s Jazz back in the day and several things about it bugged me.
In contrast, the playability of my Sire V8 is off the charts good. Marcus Miller said it best, “The notes jump off” of it as opposed to his having to dig in hard on his legendary Fender to get the dynamics and attack he wants. I honestly didn’t realize what he meant by that until I played the V8. Man, it just gives it to you. The ease of play, at least for me, is nuts.
The versatility of tone is deep. Its pups and 3-band Heritage preamp are winners, and the V8 sounds vintage as hell in passive mode. Color me impressed. 
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Marcus Miller has this thick compressed hifi low/ low and high/ high in active mode and more airy tone on passive mode in my case I also have passive tone control.
The V7 I played was noticeably lighter and easier to play in a longer standing gig. The Sire definitely has a more traditional jazz look.
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Yep, my V8 is definitely lighter than the Jazz I used to have, by a lot.
The V7 was the original flagship Sire Jazz spec’ed by Marcus to include the best of his Fender Signature, but also to improve upon the stuff he didn’t dig about the Fender.
The main thing he asked for on the V7 was a 60s-style Jazz neck: always 38mm nut width, of course, but with a thinner depth and rolled-edges on the fingerboard, as if he had worn it in with decades of hard playing.
The V8 replaces the V7 and has a lot of premium upgrades like a new high-mass bridge, lightweight tuners, the satin Sire Champ rolled-edges neck and fingerboard of roasted hard Maple, advanced pickups and the Heritage-3 preamp.
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That Heritage preamp is money! So good and usable.
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If I wanted a Jazz I would 100% get a Sire over a Fender (even MIJ) just for this reason. The Sire is a lot of instrument for the money; I absolutely love the fretboard and fretwork.
Of course in reality what I would actually get is a SBV-500. High quality Yamaha hot ceramic pups in a Jazz would fix one of the things I dislike about them 
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$534 for a really nice Jazz bass likes this from Sire is a no brainer vs getting a Fender. As long as you never look at the headstock it’s a killer deal 
https://sire-usa.com/collections/basses/products/sire-marcus-miller-v5r?variant=42374335594634
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See I even prefer the Sire headstock over Fender’s blunt trauma device. By, like, a lot. I think it looks much better and more proportional, and much nicer dark like that.
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Me, too, @howard. 
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Take the guy with the silly hat’s name off it @howard and I’d have a hard think about it.
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Truss rod access is in the correct spot… just much nicer
My P-bass was a great instrument and looked killer but TBH the Sire headstock would have improved it
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Yeah, who the f**ck is Marcus Miller, anyway? I bet he never even went through B2B.
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So, I upgraded my Yamaha BB1500a with Bartolini Dual-Coil Pickups and installed a new Bartolini Pre-Amp as well. What is amazing is it all worked after some cussing…like needing to buy a reamer to enlarge the holes for the pots but since I had never upgraded a bass before…went pretty smoothly thanks to YT videos! 
The new pickups sound great, but I don’t think this bass will ever be my favorite…I did all that work and only played it for about a half-hour and then switched back to my Fender P Bass…go figure.
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Ahh, one of the odd J/J BB’s. Yeah, that would never be my favorite either, even if I prefer BB’s in general over Fenders. A BB should be a P or P/J.
Unless it’s a BBNE2 or an Attitude of course.
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Wait, what?? Is that hardware, Howard?? 
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Ahh yeah you didn’t see the other thread. All this new rack space… tempted me
Behringer clones of two absolute classic analog synths, the Sequential Prophet Pro-One and the RSF Kobol Expander. These sound awesome.
Digital synths I have covered with plugins, though.
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