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Post subject: Re: Your favourite pick.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:35 pm
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I use a variety of picks--but mostly I use Tortex 1.14
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I also us 1.14 Gator Grips and here are the picks I recently took out of my cases and pockets and put on a scanner--I like them all...
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I also like agate picks and double picks--depends on the mood, the song and the guitar.

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Post subject: Re: Your favourite pick.
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:54 pm
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I've used Dunlop 3mm big stubby for several years.

While trying to learn fingerstyle I bought some Alaska Piks. I gave up on the fingerstyle playing but I now use one Alaska pik on my index finger. I can play a whole lot faster and cleaner with it.

I order them through Amazon because I can't find them in any music store.

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Post subject: Re: Your favourite pick.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 8:23 am
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Interesting thing about picks i always thought that for fast metal type picking and the like a thick pick was best yet i watched a video with Paul Gilbert and he's using those orange 0.60 tortex Dunlops :? Anyway the guy in the video mentioned about other people using the heavier picks and Paul says "they're wrong"

I'm inclined to agree with him he mentioned the tone is so much better with thinner picks. I too think the same, with a thick pick all your tone seems to become muffled and undefined.

I'm thinking of trying those thinner picks. There's a limit to how thin you can use though obviously you can go too thin and they're just flapping around. But it's interesting how people's attitudes are changing, even metal players are questioning the thick pick for everything mentality. :P

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Post subject: Re: Your favourite pick.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:51 am
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I have gone through hundreds of different types of picks in my 6 years of playing. I'm now kinda conservative about what I spend my money on, so I mostly play with chopped up credit cards :P

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For bass I like my picks to have some give to them, but I don't wanna play with a wet noodle of a pick. The 'give' gives me more feel and I think it makes me able to pick a little faster. I'm also used to a harder strum from playing bass, so I like a pick thats a little stiff against the light gauge of guitar strings. I've found that Fender Medium picks are perfect for both!


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Post subject: Re: Your favourite pick.
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:26 pm
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Played with and own many...

...agate stone and camel bone and rosewood and ebony and pecan and coconut, turtle shell, horn, compressed felt, varied hip delrin and nylon, lucite and plexiglass...

...but mostly, it's the tried and true "Fender shape" heavy, which does most of the picking.


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Post subject: Re: Your favourite pick.
Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:18 pm
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