Marcus Miller

"The former is what I’ve always played on, with my ’77 Jazz Bass. An ash body and maple neck makes for a bright sound for slapping because the woods are so hard, but for fingerstyle you have to work a bit harder to make the notes jump out. With an alder and rosewood combination, fingerstyle seems to jump out more, but you can slap on it, as well. That’s the main difference, so we offer both."

Marcus Miller on Bass player's Marcus Miller Sire Bass Interview http://www.bassplayer.com/artists/1171/marcus-miller-sire-bass-interview-web-exclusive/52959

It is his signature!

In this picture, we can see Marcus Miller holding his Ernie Ball Music Man Stingray

Can be seen on this concert at 46:51

Marcus owns a few Sadowskys, fretted and fretless. Here he is playin a 4 with the Jamaica Boyz!!!

Marcus Miller also have 5 strings variant of his Sire V7 bass.

In this photo, Marcus Miller playing Fender Jazz Bass.

At this video, Marcus Miller playing with Fender '52 Precision Bass.

In the picture you see Marcus playing his Fender signature bass , the EBS 410 proline and the EBS HD 350 .

After Jaco Pastorius switched to using 410 cabinets, Hartke gave Jaco's 810 cab to other artists as they didn't have many cabs back then. After Jaco, it went on several Miles Davis tours with Marcus Miller.

“When I started on the New York session scene, the B-15 was the bass amp you saw in every studio. By 1983 or so, you stopped seeing them; bass players were recording direct by then. But I did a lot of early sessions using a B-15. If you listen to Luther Vandross’s Never Too Much album, you can hear it. Engineer Michael Brauer made a little ‘house’ for the amp, from baffles and blankets, so the sound wouldn’t leak into the other instrument mics. I think engineers liked the warm, tube-y sound of the B-15, combined with the small, unobtrusive size.”

From EBS official site: "The Working horse of the pros. EBS Tube Definition (TD) heads have served big productions such as world tours with Bon Jovi, Kid Rock and Tina Turner, intimate tours with demanding bass players like Marcus Miller as well as loud and rough tours with hard working bands like The Haunted (with well over a 1, 000 gigs on EBS TD heads) or Danko Jones." http://www.ebssweden.com/content/td660.php

“I'm excited to announce that I'm joining forces with Markbass Amps, we're looking forward to doing some very cool things together this year. Keep an eye on us!” An album entitled Renaissance is long overdue for the widely acclaimed Renaissance Man Marcus Miller. In among the most enviable careers in music, Miller is a two-time Grammy-winner and the composer/producer of ten critically acclaimed and genre-defying albums (seven studio and three live). Even the most devoted follower may be astonished to realize that Renaissance is only his eighth studio project since his 1983 debut, Suddenly, considering the abundance of occasions Miller’s name has appeared within album credits and that he has dazzled with performances, compositions and productions – in the company of some of the world’s most respected and accomplished players and superstars - from the mid-`70s to the present.

http://www.markbass.it/artist-detail/marcus-miller/

At 3:39 Marcus shows his Rodenberg Gas MM, then plays bass using it.

At 3:12 of this DunlopTV video, Marcus is playing bass using the Dunlop 535Q Crybaby.

At 4:10, Marcus says that he uses the MXR bass compressor. He says that he use it as a limiter and because it gives him more sustain.

At 4:50, Marcus shows his POG2 and says that the octave up sounds "very nice."

At 5:15 Marcus Miller shows his Fulltone OCD Overdrive.

At 5:22 Marcus Miller quickly shows the AC Booster in his pedalboard.

At 5.26 Marcus Miller shows how he plays bass using the MXR Phase 90.

At 5.49 Marcus Miller plays bass using the MXR Bass Envelope.

At 6.05 Marcus Miller shows how the Bass Octave sounds. According to Miller, he mostly uses it with the fretless bass because the pedal "tracks so well."

At 7.38 Marcus Miller shows his pedalboard's digital delay, an Akai Head Rush. "I just use it as an instrument, you know what I mean?" Miller said. "It's like an organ player pullin' the stops."

He has his own signature set

Marcus Miller - Ulrich Rodenberg Leverkusen April 2015 I met Marcus yesterday in Leverkusen for the third time. He uses my pedals since 2008. Always on his stage pedal board: My GAS-MM II Custom Marcus Miller triple pedal (Clean boost - double Overdrive / GAS-789B NG). The new pedal for him: GAS-808B Marcus Miller Overdrive (GAS-808B NG). Last picture shows credits on his new CD Afrodeezia: Effect pedals: Custom M2 Rodenberg

“The Basswitch switches everything but my TONE! The boost function puts the bass right up front.”