I have a Fender MIM jazz bass with noisless active electronics. The bass is awseome and plays like a dream. I bought it new from GC like 6 months ago. Anyway, when I play the bass through my amp it sounds great and is quiet, but when I record with it, it hums loud when I pull my hands off the strings or any metal part of the bass. I understand this because of the grounding of the electronics. It is bad enough I hear it in my recordings, especially when I hit an open note. It is not the cable as i tried several differant kinds last night. My set up is bass to mixer to audio interface to computer. One thing I can tell you guys is that my house is old and is only a two wire electrical service. Im wondering if this is part of the problem. I have heard that sitting right in front of the computer when recording can make a bass or guitar pick up noisy signals fronm the monitor. It is frustating though because it is really picking up on my tracks.