V-PICK @ Summer NAMM - Page 4

HeavyMetal4Ever · #46 07-08-2008, 12:47 PM

Apparently Breadfan uses them so that's all the proof I need...

Rock on!

andy7jem · #47 07-08-2008, 01:40 PM

Imagine if Yngwie started using them!!!! Would cost him a fortune at gigs chucking 'em to the crowd constantly

chaos731 · #48 07-08-2008, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by andy7jem

Imagine if Yngwie started using them!!!! Would cost him a fortune at gigs chucking 'em to the crowd constantly

Furthermore, the lawsuits would be outrageous...
I can see Yngwie chucking those things at people like shuriken, and them getting impaled by them.

It's all fun and games until someone takes a V-Pick to the eyeball.

Lefty Robb · #49 07-08-2008, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by chaos731

Furthermore, the lawsuits would be outrageous...
I can see Yngwie chucking those things at people like shuriken, and them getting impaled by them.

It's all fun and games until someone takes a V-Pick to the eyeball.

[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]Wohs! buts thats likes ways Metals though...[/Skwisgaar Skwigelf]

sofo · #50 07-09-2008, 02:19 AM

Yngwie + a box of 9.66mm V-Picks = Musical A-10 Warthog shooting depleted uranium bullets

**Ayrton** · #51 07-09-2008, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by andy7jem

Imagine if Yngwie started using them!!!! Would cost him a fortune at gigs chucking 'em to the crowd constantly

I am afraid he would mistake it for a slice of pizza and eat it.

gu1tar · #52 07-09-2008, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Lefty Robb

I'm still trying to figure out how a pick gives you more sustain and more pinch harmonics, when picks have nothing to do with either of those two things..I almost have to try these things because I'm seriously calling a shenanigans.

You can never figure it out cuz you are not a noob enough to fall for the idea of it. Over the many years I've played, there has always been some scammer making these claims about improving your speed and skill with some magic pick. Funny how I've never seen any of the fastest players using any of these "secret sauce" picks.

Much like the South Park Carnival episode, let us all get together and say it:

Shenanigans! Shenanigans!

gu1tar · #53 07-09-2008, 02:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Ayrton

I am afraid he would mistake it for a slice of pizza and eat it.

Dude, I like Yngwie's music and that is just wrong. Damn funny, but wrong.

chaos731 · #54 07-09-2008, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Lefty Robb

[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]Wohs! buts thats likes ways Metals though...[/Skwisgaar Skwigelf]

Is that Vegetarian Progressive Grindcore or Lounge?

By the way, have you read this?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...sgaar+Skwigelf

Funniest...thing...evar.

The guy's like some sort of unholy crossing of a tree, Yngwie, and Eric Cartman.

Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff (breath) fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftt

DavyH · #55 07-09-2008, 10:32 AM

I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY NO ONE LOVES

THE PICK OF DENSITY

Jim I wish you hadn't deleted the troll-y posts before I got a chance to read 'em.

Batchimp RG · #56 07-09-2008, 10:38 AM

Is dis vee pick everyone ees talking about?

Hey, that's the best gag I could think of at this point.......

RSVampire · #57 07-10-2008, 06:22 AM

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Originally Posted by gu1tar

You can never figure it out cuz you are not a noob enough to fall for the idea of it. Over the many years I've played, there has always been some scammer making these claims about improving your speed and skill with some magic pick. Funny how I've never seen any of the fastest players using any of these "secret sauce" picks.

Much like the South Park Carnival episode, let us all get together and say it:

Shenanigans! Shenanigans!

so you are telling me that you'll get the same tone playing with a metal pick than you will with a stone pick? or a nylon pick?

play with a simple quarter and then play with a normal pick... there is a tone difference.

The material we use as a pick makes a difference in the overall tone. It might be an improvement on harmonics or sustain but it might not... thing is.... tone is kind of subjective so it's hard to tell if something is "better" than something else.

chaos731 · #58 07-10-2008, 09:15 AM

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Originally Posted by RSVampire

so you are telling me that you'll get the same tone playing with a metal pick than you will with a stone pick? or a nylon pick?

play with a simple quarter and then play with a normal pick... there is a tone difference.

The material we use as a pick makes a difference in the overall tone. It might be an improvement on harmonics or sustain but it might not... thing is.... tone is kind of subjective so it's hard to tell if something is "better" than something else.

That's true...at least to a certain degree. As I recall, Brian May uses a sixpence as a pick...one of the reasons it's so difficult to duplicate his tone. That said, tone is entirely subjective; "timbre" is probably more accurate a description of the effect a particular kind or material of pick has on a player's overall "tone".

In a pinch, I've used a dime as a pick...it farks up your strings something awful, but it sounds pretty cool.

axemanrio · #59 07-10-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by RSVampire

play with a simple quarter and then play with a normal pick... there is a tone difference.

I'm still not paying $20 or £20 for a single pick, since tone is subjective (as you stated), they can't blindly claim the following (taken from their site):

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Richer tone from your instrument.
Creamy high end, strong mids, a beefy bottom end and more volume. An incredible difference.
Very smooth/fast action
The V-Pick glides over the strings creating less friction, allowing you to play faster
Very cool looking
Smooth, Clear Acrylic
Very cool feeling

The last one is my favorite lol.

chaos731 · #60 07-10-2008, 11:50 AM

All of this is kind of pointless, innit? Eh?

If you want to play your guitar using a dried owl turd as a pick, and it sounds/feels good to you, then that's all that matters.

Bottom line: products like this are custom-made for those people that are looking for that magical (and non-existent) "special something" that will suddenly and drastically improve their tone and/or playing ability. If they WANT to believe that something like this will work for them in achieving either or both of those ends, then they're going to be happy little campers. Blissfully ignorant of basic psychology, perhaps, but happy little campers nonetheless.

Edit: I swear to god, someone should dig up Andre Segovia, take his fingernails, grind them up and compress them into guitar picks. I would imagine that I could sell those to some hapless shmoe for like thousands of dollars.
Why...why...it's the get-rich-quick scheme of the century! Instant tone and skill improvement!