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My Sire M5 arrived today. It’s a great bass, lightweight and gets all of the sounds I could possibly want out of it (how lucky am I?!).

There’s surprisingly little information however on the actual controls online. In the picture there’s 3 toggle switches. The bottom one is a 2 way that switches between passive and actively and the other 2 are 3 ways which alter the sounds of the pickups. The actual humbuckers can switch between series, parallel and single coil I think.

Problem is that I don’t know which position of the switches correspond to the pickup options. I know about the other knobs, I have a V7 (which I might sell now) that has the same preamp setup.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance 🙂

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Are they definitely 3 position?

I'd expect the active/passive switch to be 2 way as it is on my V7, I can't think what a third option would be.

The pickup selectors would make sense if they were on/off, again I can't really think what the third option would be.

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This is from the Andrtons M5 page

Powerful Pickups

Sire basses are known for emitting sounds that far outweigh their modest price-points, and the M5 is no exception. Marcus Pure Humbucker Advanced active pickups deliver a thick and powerful sound, projecting plenty of low-end, a meaty mid-range and articulate highs.

Want to go for more of a traditional, passive pickup sound? No problem, just use the toggle switch to flick between active and passive modes, and use the two additional switches to engage/disengage the front and rear pickups.

 

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8 hours ago, NasalFloss said:

That’s great, but it doesn’t tell me what the 3 positions per switch do to the corresponding pickup?

Up = parallel 

Middle = single coil

Down = series 

Series is pretty much a louder parallel with more bottom end. 

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On 12/03/2021 at 20:55, NasalFloss said:

My Sire M5 arrived today. It’s a great bass, lightweight and gets all of the sounds I could possibly want out of it (how lucky am I?!).

There’s surprisingly little information however on the actual controls online. In the picture there’s 3 toggle switches. The bottom one is a 2 way that switches between passive and actively and the other 2 are 3 ways which alter the sounds of the pickups. The actual humbuckers can switch between series, parallel and single coil I think.

Problem is that I don’t know which position of the switches correspond to the pickup options. I know about the other knobs, I have a V7 (which I might sell now) that has the same preamp setup.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance 🙂

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I have been looking at this bass on the Anderton`s site and it looks great. 

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43 minutes ago, NasalFloss said:

It really is, just a shame that it’s in lacking colour options. It’s growing on me though!

I went for the trans blue, it's almost green in bits looks great. 

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