Unshielded single-coil pickups are probably the noisiest. There are other pickup choices that are less, or even much less sensitive to noise pickup. Some guitarists like the sound single-coils better, is all.
Believe I mentioned before there are some things that can be done to help reduce noise, depending on the exact source, of course. Some noise can be picked up through the AC line, some noise comes from stray magnetic coupling between Blues Jr power and output transformers.
Noise that associated with a guitar is likely to cause a problem with any amp, especially a high-gain amp (Blues Jr. it not considered high gain though).
For that type of noise there are a few things that can be tried. A noise-gate pedal can be a good investment. If the noise is less when the player touches the strings that is because of pickup associated with stray electric fields in the area, say, maybe from triac light dimmers used on stage lighting, etc. If turning the guitar around in a circle over a point on the floor changes noise then its probably stray magnetic field pickup.
Regarding amp settings versus guitar settings, if a guitarist in interested playing the amp like an instrument, and or best tone out of an amp like Blues Jr, I usually recommend to set guitar volume and tone controls to 5 (not 10!), then adjust the amp for the desired range of tonal variation depending on how the artist plays the guitar (for whatever playing techniques, pick types, etc., will be used). Then adjust the guitar controls as needed to fine tune the sound as needed during performance.
Believe I mentioned before there are some things that can be done to help reduce noise, depending on the exact source, of course. Some noise can be picked up through the AC line, some noise comes from stray magnetic coupling between Blues Jr power and output transformers.
Noise that associated with a guitar is likely to cause a problem with any amp, especially a high-gain amp (Blues Jr. it not considered high gain though).
For that type of noise there are a few things that can be tried. A noise-gate pedal can be a good investment. If the noise is less when the player touches the strings that is because of pickup associated with stray electric fields in the area, say, maybe from triac light dimmers used on stage lighting, etc. If turning the guitar around in a circle over a point on the floor changes noise then its probably stray magnetic field pickup.
Regarding amp settings versus guitar settings, if a guitarist in interested playing the amp like an instrument, and or best tone out of an amp like Blues Jr, I usually recommend to set guitar volume and tone controls to 5 (not 10!), then adjust the amp for the desired range of tonal variation depending on how the artist plays the guitar (for whatever playing techniques, pick types, etc., will be used). Then adjust the guitar controls as needed to fine tune the sound as needed during performance.
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These Flukes are pretty good. Maybe it displays a fraction of 113kHz clock residual as well - making the numbers obtained questionable.