Marcus Miller - Z3 4 Cordes LH Antique White

The left-handed Sire Marcus Miller Z3 in Antique White has an instantly recognisable organic density in its bass - that warm, sustained rumble that was the hallmark of the most memorable bass lines of the funk decade. The body in mahogany, a tight-fibred, balanced-weight material, delivers deep bass with a physical solidity that light woods can't replicate. The Sire Z-Bass shape, with its ergonomic forearm contour, allows for long sessions without the edge of the body digging into the inside of the wrist.

The C-profile hard maple neck transmits vibration without excessive absorption, ensuring an articulate response across the 22 2.7mm Medium Jumbo frets. The Edgeless™ maple fingerboard with its truly rounded edges - not simply sanded - glides under the thumb without catching, whatever the unhook. The slightly domed 304.8mm radius favours open chord positions as much as spun lines up the neck, while the 42mm bone saddle stabilises the open tuning with a natural resonance that synthetic plastic systematically muffles. The 19 mm Sire Standard MM bridge spacing is ideal for slap techniques as well as walking-bass lines played with the fingers.

The Sire Standard MM ring-coil pickup delivers a humbucking spectrum with no parasitic hiss, sculpted in real time by the Marcus Heritage-3 active 3-band preamp - Volume, Treble, Midrange, Bass - to adapt the sound colour from the rehearsal room to the big stage. The black 3-ply pickguard visually anchors the whole in the aesthetics of the iconic basses of the seventies, a coherence that is not folklore but lutherie conceived from start to finish for left-handers who refuse the usual compromises.