Favourite plectrum?

Dogma Hollow · Post by **Dogma Hollow** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:39 pm

light rail coyote wrote:I hate thin picks, you loose all the picking dynamics. because a thin pick absorbs so much the energy in how much it flexes, your picking and strumming will all sound the same.

I don't really have that problem, probably more due to different guitars/techniques. My main acoustic is a Martin, and it's pretty bass-heavy. Thicker picks make it sound really boomy, at least with the way I play, so I use thins.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:41 pm

I do like thin picks for acoustic if I'm just doing big chords and just straight forward strumming.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:25 am

avntzen · Post by **avntzen** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:51 am

Dinosauria wrote:

+1

Red and Orange are my favorites.

LimpDickCheney · Post by **LimpDickCheney** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:21 am

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:27 am

NBarnes21 · Post by **NBarnes21** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:30 am

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 6:47 am

MY HAND

Using a pick is like using a strap-on when you have FIVE PERFECTLY GOOD DICKS.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:23 am

Not really. A Plectrum gives you a completely different attack and tonality than using your fingers even if you're using your fingers like a pick.

If can't understand that I really feel for you as a guitarist. It's like the whole Bass with pick or fingers debate, both are equally valid, and that's because they SOUND DIFFERENT.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:35 am

aye. i prefer me fingers on acoustic but you'd never get the attack i like on a electric with fingers.

i'm more comfortable using fingers though, i tend to drop plectrums and do things like completely miss strums sometimes 'cause my hands are both as useless as each other.

Will · Post by **Will** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:42 pm

When I play with the band, it's all picked. I just don't like the way picks sound - I do it grudgingly cause it works better in a rock band context.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:56 pm

I use the orange .60 dunlops. I used to use really heavy ones, (2mm at one point, like a nickel) and then moved down to mediums, always hated thins, find the .60mms to be in the middle leaning towards medium. A tad more flexible, but not wussy. Fender make some as well that are identical.

jimib · Post by **jimib** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:09 am

avntzen wrote:
Dinosauria wrote:
+1

+2

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:19 am

Reece wrote:aye. i prefer me fingers on acoustic but you'd never get the attack i like on a electric with fingers.

i'm more comfortable using fingers though, i tend to drop plectrums and do things like completely miss strums sometimes 'cause my hands are both as useless as each other.

if you drop plectrums, try my double sided ticky-tape trick (mentioned above somewhere). works a treat. i used to get cramps in my right hand from clenching the plectrum too hard onstage (adrenalin) but no longer. it's cheating a wee bit, but means i can get to the end of a set without crying.

superfuzz · Post by **superfuzz** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:57 am

I used to hate thin picks, but I've really started to love them. Mind you, thin to me is anything less than .75mm. I feel it gives me more attack on single notes, and helps with leads a little bit. The really thin, like .1 mm are the picks I find unuseable, but down to about .3 mm I enjoy.

However, Dunlop Jazz IIIs are the best picks ever made. 1mm or something like that.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:57 am

stewart wrote:
Reece wrote:aye. i prefer me fingers on acoustic but you'd never get the attack i like on a electric with fingers.

i'm more comfortable using fingers though, i tend to drop plectrums and do things like completely miss strums sometimes 'cause my hands are both as useless as each other.
if you drop plectrums, try my double sided ticky-tape trick (mentioned above somewhere). works a treat. i used to get cramps in my right hand from clenching the plectrum too hard onstage (adrenalin) but no longer. it's cheating a wee bit, but means i can get to the end of a set without crying.

If you do drop it though you'll never be able to pick it up! For the floor is stronger than man D:

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:09 am

This stuff is awesome if you drop picks a lot.

Will · Post by **Will** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:01 am

UPDATE:

My friend just gave me this as a very early birthday present (7+ weeks early!). It's a sterling silver pick and she had the words to my favorite song stamped into it. It's amazing, possibly the most personal gift I've ever gotten. I LOVE THIS PICK.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:43 am

She clearly wants to climb on you and bounce around.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:17 pm

DuoSonicBoy wrote:This stuff is awesome if you drop picks a lot.

I'm probably never going to live this down and burn in geek hell but I remember reading one of the Drenai books by David Gemell (probably Legend) in which the advice was to rub orange peel on your hand to stop you dropping your sword whilst smiting enemies in a mighty-thewed fashion. Every single time the fucking plectrum slips around and gets dropped, or my hand cramps, I wish I had an orange to hand to test this and live my teenage fantasy of ummm smiting and that.

Could just buy Gorilla snot instead....

I'll get me coat.