These are great, I replaced these from my dumb little Silvertone. I removed the frets as well, and these pickups define a shocking resemblance to an upright bass with fretless. The wiring was extremely simple, there is no hum, great output, and fit very well in the pcikup slot. I would recomend this to anone, even with frets these pickups sound so good. Very versatile, get these.

I'm extremely happy with my emg phz pick up and would recommend them to any bass player. I build my own warmoth guitars and bass guitars and the wiring was simple. These pickups are quiet, have great output,punch,tone,clarity,and definition. I used 500k pots and the recommended .047uf capacitor along with an emg mmhz in the bridge position for an infinate pallet of sounds. I play through a carvin BX1200 head,4x10 cab with horn, and 1x15 bottom cab. try a set of DR Marcus Miller fatbeams strings, I love the sound I get with this string and pickup combination.