Just a curious question. What picks do you use?

[two fingers]

Tortex 88's... the green ones. Just the right amount of flex for my playing style and string guages.

These are my go to pick these days. However, I keep the whole Tortex rainbow and a couple of nylon Dunlop thicknesses on my pick holder. I find different materials and thickness translate to different attack and tone. So I grab what fits the song best.

 

[jd56hawk]

I use Guitar moose sticky grips.

I might not be able to afford the best bass and the best amp but I sure can afford the best strings and picks.
Comes in 3.0 mm or 5.0mm, soft, medium or hard rubber.

I wouldn't even consider using anything else even if I got paid to endorse it.

 

[kkaarrll]

Orange Tortex..

this

 

[Dluxe]

 

[rbrockus]

I found these at Bass strings online. If you want a use a pick but hate the click, these are great.

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[kkaarrll]

you that use really thick picks


why?

 

[soxhats]

Have tried many. The one that stuck was the Carol Kaye pick available at her website.

 

[Creede]

Dunlop Gator Grip 2 mm picks, I think. They are stiff enough so that they don't bend easily, but thin enough to be easily gripped. I rarely use picks though, since I prefer a bit less attack, even for metal.

 

[quickfix]

Mostly I use just my fingers. But, a Dunlop Big Stubby 3mm when pick occasions arise.

 

[okcrum]

Dunlop nylon .88 and 1 mm

 

[Jim C]

Rubber pick users:
I use Fender Heavy or the Dunlop celluloid 1.00 MM
Which rubber pick would you suggest I try?

 

[Dradder]

One pick I won't use again is these Rubber Wedgie guys, if they're still being made:

Wedgie Rubber Guitar Pick

I was practicing late at night for a couple of hours with one, and it did sound good, but the next morning I found that the front of my bass was covered with nasty little flecks, as though a herd of squirrels or something had sneezed all over it -- which of course, I realized, was the eroded rubber from the pick I'd been using. Sticky, too; took some work to polish it off.

 

[SkinCoffin]

those big green tortex triangles, or the large shaped jazz sharp/jazz 3's, but prefer the larger green ones at shows as they're easier to find if I drop them on stage

 

[Hi-End Basses]

I use Mick's Picks. The Vex 3. It's 1.5 mm. I've used their UKE 2's, which is composite felt and 3.8 mm, and their Spink, which is 3.0 mm. The Vex picks are new, and I'm sticking with the Vex 3. The company's been around for 10 years

 

[Riot-or-Wrong]

I've used medium Fender, Dunlop fingerpicks, and rubber. I can only find the Fender now so that's all I use. I have to remind myself to play with fingers occasionally just in case I find a song I like better fingerstyle.

 

[IPA]

.73 yellow tortex(mostly), or clayton 1mms

 

[vickerekes]

Dradder wrote about Wedgies "...the front of my bass was covered with nasty little flecks."
That's my experience: it looked like the bass was attacked by pencil erasers.

 

[bucephylus]

Another user of Dunlop Nylon 88's.

 

[ofajen]

Dunlop nylon .60mm.

Otto

 

[RockNRollRanter]

This will sound bizarre, but on both bass and guitar I use coins--a dime for the gee-tar and a quarter for the thumpy thing. In essence, I heard Brian May (my guitar hero) did it, then I tried it once...then I never went back! And for the record, I use a pick almost exclusively on bass.