Not so much. When I touch the bass it almost disappear. I like how sound this pickup. With tone full open it sounds punchy and closing the tone you get more vintage sound. I mount flatwound strings on it. I used this bass in my home studio to record this track and you can hear that there are no noises ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nqYCCftF6ls.htmlsi=52aPQjHpZ9TlVxaq
