Let's Talk About Picks!

[ChasFred]

For the most part I dont use picks, nether does Jeff Beck, Derrick Trucks or Jared James Nichols

 

[Chubbles]

Vintage picks have the best tone. Early 70s Fender picks have great mojo.



not.

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

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Your Pets are looking a lot prettier lately, Adrian. Now we know the real reason behind junk rubbin.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

 

[Metal89]

Dunlop 1.14 as well (I use 3.00 for bass) I didn’t realize how far I choke up on it til I took this pic...

 

[mcblink]

You guys ever try the stylus pick?
I remember ads for these in the back of all the magazines (remember magazines?)

A couple years ago I decided to finally try one. They feel weird and they don't sound too good, it's mostly a training tool. But it did work some, for if you do not have impeccable technique, the pick will hang up on the strings, exposing us for the charlatans that we really are...

 

[eSGEe]

I do have some of thos

I use yellow Dava picks, exclusively.

I’ve used nylon, Tortex, celluloid, cow’s hoof, and graphite.

I like the Dava picks better than any of them.

I have some of those
I use them now and again but they are much thinner than the Pettrucci Jazz picks

 

[Inspector #20]

I like the Fender mediums and I only use the red ones. I was given one by Roy Nichols (of Merle Haggard's The Strangers) when I was a kid and I thought it was so cool looking with the gold lettering and all, that I never switched. I play with the tip rotated towards my palm - a technique I developed playing an Ibanez DT-555 as a main guitar through the 1980's - in order to miss the middle pickup. I still play with one of the fat shoulders of the picks.



I tend to keep them until they are worn into all sorts of odd shapes, but I have a pack of 100 in my drawer and I put 5 or 10 in every one of my guitar cases...

 

[Sp8ctre]

My favorites are these Steve Vai picks because of the rubber grip they have and my other go to are Dunlop Herco Grey...because Gilmour uses them.

 

[smitty_p]

I do have some of thos

I have some of those
I use them now and again but they are much thinner than the Pettrucci Jazz picks

Gee, I wonder where those came from!

Dava does make thicker picks.

I really like two things about them:

First, the textured, rubber coating helps prevent slipping.

Second, you can rotate the pick so the rubber edge strikes the string for a softer attack, where necessary.

 

[gball]

These, since at least the mid 1980's

 

[mcblink]

You guys DO know the old trick where you rub the pick edgewise on carpet to re-sharpen/shape the point, yes?

 

[67plexi]

Fender extra heavy I hit my strings hard like a redheaded step child

 

[Inspector #20]

 

[Gahr]

I used the green .88 Dunlop Tortex picks for years, But for some reason they stopped feeling comfortable to me a couple of years ago. I have no idea why, but I suddenly wanted something thicker. I bought a 50-pack tin of black extra heavy Gibson picks, because they were on sale in my local store. They suit me fine. I prefer using the rounded edge of the pick, as it gives me a softer attack. I wish I had taken lessons and learned proper picking techniques when I started playing as a kid, because my right hand is definitely the weakest link in my playing.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

These, since at least the mid 1980's

Those were the ones I used in the 70’s and early 80’s !
Cheers Mitch

 

[ninjaking67]

I’m a Tortex Yellow guy, like Lenny Kravitz.

 

[guitarweasel]

Fender style Medium.

 

[LRT]

Orange donlops for me

How do you guys hold your pic for the natural curve they have?

 

[Hackmaster]

I rarely use a pick as I've been working on fingerstyle playing for a while, but when I do it's whatever is around.
Every order I get from Just Strings has a little bag of advertising picks in it.
I have an ashtray full of them, along with various others that find me.
Every acoustic guitar that I work on seems to cough up at least two or three picks that are floating around inside the body, they go into the ashtray with everything else.
My only preference when I use one would be a heavier gauge pick.
Don't like thin flappy ones.