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Herr R'n'B, I was at your side when you wanted that EB-1 converted to fit your own personal handicap.
But I vehemently draw the line at ripping out the original single coil to replace it with a later Gibson mudbucker. That is like reworking Mount Rushmore!!! I beg you to cease and desist from your evil ploy!
Yes, that single coil hums. It actually hums a little above an A, so it is helpful for tuning too.
With a large rig and some neon bulbs around it hums even more, but if yours hums so loud that it gets in the way of the music once a band sets in, I'd be surprised. I changed the bridge on my 53 to that Jack Bruce Schaller monolith because I liked the sound of that bass so much I wanted it to intonate perfectly. It did neither increase nor decrease the hum. The hum is loud enough in our neon bulb ridden rehearsal room to have the singer ask "Something's humming with the PA tonight ...", but it is irrelevant once the music sets in.
Uwe
