The Best Pick - If youre playing Vai, Satch, Petrucci...what

Juniper570 · #1 10-26-2001, 02:23 PM

I have to know. I am preferencial to the Dunlop Jazz 3. A friend of mine swears by the thickest Fender pick and another swears by the thinest. Let's hear it people. What pick helps you articulate each note, scream harmonics, and sound just like your Guitar GOD?

rlintz · #2 10-26-2001, 03:14 PM

I've gone from one end of the spectrum to the other - I used to love very thin picks (Dunlop .46 mm) but have since moved to heavy picks (current faves are the Dunlop Gator Grip 1.14 mm). *I believe you can play much faster leads with a thicker pick than with a thin pick and they're much more comfortable. *A good test/gauge of this to simply try tremolo picking as fast as you can on the various high strings with different gauge picks to see which is the most comfortable. *When I did this test, heavier picks were a clear choice.

pri0531 · #3 10-26-2001, 05:21 PM

My fav is the D'Andrea Ultra Plex 1.5. *When I first started to play I used the Jazz III picks. *They really helped me play precise.
Out,
GP *

YaYoGakk · #4 10-26-2001, 05:36 PM

I use 2mm Dunlop Stubby's. I only have 3 left and my local music store doesn't seem to want to order any more in for me

LOL I started out using Jazz III's but for the last couple of years I've been using these.

Alden

wyldbill · #5 10-26-2001, 07:10 PM

I use thin and medium steel picks, which are getting hard to find, and pickboy 1mm carbon edges.

-bill

JSClone2 · #6 10-26-2001, 08:09 PM

I like the D'Andrea 1 mm picks. *They do just fine for me.

darren wilson · #7 10-26-2001, 09:10 PM

Years ago, my favourite picks were light pink.046mm Dunlop Delrins... very sweet, organic tone, especially for clean chording. Live, i liked to use stainless steel picks for that incredible bite, but in everyday use, they just ate through strings WAY too quickly.

Then a friend of mine turned me on to Stubby 3.0mm picks, and i realized how much energy and motion was wasted using a soft pick. I use those to this day, though for the most part, i play with my fingers and the back of the nail on my index finger, kinda like Jeff Beck does. (Not to suggest that my playing is anywhere near as good as Mr. Beck's.)

Screamin · #8 10-27-2001, 12:03 AM

I also use the Dunlop 2.0mm. *Total control. *I can't use anything else now...

Screamin'

JESTER700 · #9 10-27-2001, 12:17 AM

On acoustic, (.012s) medium plastic. *I like the extra snap.
On electric, (.010s) heavy plastic. *Both standard size. *It seems with these cobos of string & pick I get similar "combined flexure".

Got a THICK stubby with a guitar I bought on eBay and liked it. *One day I'll probably go to those, but I JUST bought a gross of the regular ones... *:-(

winterlong · #10 10-27-2001, 01:35 AM

Pickboy pos-grips they're just amazing. They are rather sharp picks and they have just that little bit of give that helps you not to have to much attack or at least more like a more even attack. I hate pick that don't give at all, just clank.

Kremlin · #11 10-27-2001, 02:22 AM

I used Fender thins for the longest time, then switched to thick, then no pick for about a year, then back to thin picks again, then thick... Then eventually I tried tortex's, they were tricky for me to adjust to at first, but then I used the thick purple tortex's for about 2 years.. (I'm not very decisive!) A while back, I switched to 2mm Stubbies. My god those things were impossible for me to adjust to, but now I love them; my sloppy picking has finally started to improve. Now whenever I use tortexes again, I sound so sloppy in comparison.. But I find in general, you need a pick that can grip the strings a bit (ala tortex) to play blues right, so I still keep one or two in the pick-case.

jeffrey · #12 10-27-2001, 04:05 AM

I go back and forth between JazzIII's and 2mm Stubbies. Literally. Back and forth. Like, every other song.

I can't make up my damn mind. :\

Juniper570 · #13 10-27-2001, 09:39 AM

Who makes the Stubbie? I have not even heard of that one. Of course I do live in Amish country where the women are men and the sheep run scared! :sarcasm:

SalemB · #14 10-27-2001, 03:59 PM

Wow, I'm a late entry and very surprised to see that I'm the only one using thin picks. I'm using Dunlop .46's and I keep loosing them faster than I manage to buy new ones.

vwall · #15 10-27-2001, 04:18 PM

I'm a dedicated Dunlop Jazz III point pick
Player!

I love those picks!

Have tried about every pick out there and still do.. its always the Jazz III's that I come home to!

Scott