Fighting the evil of induction loops

[HarryPotter]

Well like a lot of guys on here I'm a Church player (amongst other things ) and I have been having a torrid time dealing with induction loops (I play in 3 places with induction loops and have problems in all of them).

Having finally found a bass that really suits me (a Marcus MIller IV - mainly due to its awesome neck) I decided enough was enough and it's time to find a way around the problem.

The problem being that if I use one pickup on it's own my system picks up the signal from the induction loops and turns my bass into an expensive (and bad) transistor radio (I wonder if Pink Floyd got the idea for the start of 'Wish you were here' from this kind of a problem), also if I run the volume on the bass too high it causes horrible squealing feedback. Generally I run both pickups at very similar volumes, this reduces the problem (as basically I get a kind of humbucking pickup) but I still cant use full volume on the bass or it's major squeal territory and the 'transistor radio effect' is still evident (even to the drummers ears )

I wasn't going to bother shielding the bass - I had done this to a friends strat and he still has a nightmare in Church when he brings it along, although when he borrows my Patrick Eggle Berlin the problem goes away (I keep it for sentimental reasons ).

So my first course of action was to try and move my bass as far away from the induction loops as possible and site my amp (Ashdown ABM Evo III 2X10) at an angle to the loop - this helped considerably but the problem was still there and full volume was still a no-no.

Last week I bought a set of Fender Vintage Noiseless pups from BB2000 on here (cheers dude) and fitted them (and despite the horror stories I'd read on Talkbass they went straight in - they were tight but went in) and today I used them 'in anger' for the first time.

The results were superb - I can now use single pups or any blend I wish (i.e. Jazz tones rather than a general bass sound) at any volume level with no problems (at full volume the 'transistor' effect was still present but was so slight only I could tell - and this was only via a radio mike - historically the worst offender for me).

Overall a cracking £50 spent (and 20 minutes to fit them). So if any Jazz bass players out there are after a way to beat the induction loop, I can offer proof positive of one way to do it.