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Brilliantly made basses with excellent (somewhat confusing?) electronics and superb playability. They can be heavy though, so something to watch out for.
As far as bang for buck, they're right up there
Solid, and a great feeling neck.
These 2 models are more jazz bass derived but the EQ on them, as well as the selectable active preamp, is where they excel and you can produce all manner of tones from it's a powerful system . However, you can stay passive if you want and it'll still work like that should the batteries run out on the active side.
Weights can vary as I found out with my V3 when I tried them in Anderton's, but I got that particular one for £190 new in their sale. The closest competitor was the Fender Squier CV or something from Ibanez and IMHO, they didn't even come close to it's spec and sounds.
As testament to them, I've a mate with multiple basses, most are expensive, high end makes like Spectors or Wals etc but he'll regularly reach for his V7 for function gigs. Even the more recent bassist in Toto, Shem, was using them and he had one of the best and clearest live bass sounds I've ever heard from a rock band.
Used prices are good but new, they're still excellent value and their semi-hard gig bags are good (not included on new purchases but worth getting and negotiating on one)
There’s a reason there are so many of them around - these things really are (as far as I can tell as a non bass player) that good, and they really are ridiculous value for money. May or may not prove to be what I actually need/want from a bass once I’ve been playing for a while but it seems like a damned good start, I think it’ll last me a while, and I can easily imagine that even if I do end up eventually buying something different (once I’ve learned enough to know what I do need/want) it’ll stick around, because what it does do, it seems to do very well and it feels very nice into the bargain...
I did kind of worry a little over the active electronic setup (as a guitarist I’ve never had any experience with on-board pre-amps, and I’m not generally a fan of stacked pots) but it turns out that with just a couple of minutes familiarisation the layout is pretty well intuitive in use, and, as far as I can tell given my limited experience of such things, it’s a very effective, very well thought out piece of kit which can go from a down’n’dirty honk to a HiFi sheen through the dinky little (also highly recommended) EBS Session 30 amp I got to go with it.
I recommend the sonic blue by the way - it looks lovely, and it’s classy as hell up close...
Both feel like I got way more than my moneys worth, super comfy rolled edge necks, excellent pickups, fancy preamp that lets you tweak the sound more than usual, well balanced so no dive to battle.
Weight wise both of mine are a little under 5kg, that's been average for the basses I've checked out, heavier than my basswood jazz but lighter than my Harley Benton BZ.
Personally I find the p/j setup is a lot more versatile than the all jazz one but that's just personal taste and honestly I haven't touched the V3 much since getting the P7 so the preamp could probably do some V3 tone magic.
I doubt anyone buys a Sire MM and feels like they got a bad deal.