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Hellcat VI noise issue

I just bought a used 2024 Shecter Hellcat VI from Guitar Center and I love it. As a guitar player new to the bass, before I was using a Fender P bass and basically doing simple pentatonic scales and following the route notes of my guitar chords. Now I feel like the Yngwie Malmsteen of bass. I’m kidding but I can move around the fretboard easily and I’m writing more creative riffs. The one HUGE problem I have though is that this is the 2024 model with monster tone stack pickups which I believe are humbuckers and also have a split coil function that makes them single coils but these are buzzing like crazy. It is a great instrument but I consider this to be a dealbreaker. Any Hellcat VI owners here? By the way this is NOT the model with the single coil pickups. Thanks.