Just a curious question. What picks do you use?

[vickerekes]

These work well for uber-bright piano tone stainless roundwounds...

 

[rstephens]

Those yellow ones

 

[Sam Evans]

 

[Docduval]

I used to exclusively use 1mm+ picks, but after trying a .44mm once, I converted. Sound and playability are much better.

 

[Neck Diver]

Get an assortment pack if you can. Then you can try ones of various thickness. I prefer .73-1.0, and there are slight differences in sound which is more noticeable especially when you go from very thin to moderate or thick. Materials and texture can affect sound as well. They are cheap have fun.

 

[DavidEdenAria]

Carole Kaye said she used a hard guitar pick with flatwounds and mute. I think many other artists of that era used that combination too. I got a set of Mick’s picks : the green rubber ones and the felt ones. I like them with flatwounds. My problem with thin smooth plastic ones is I always drop them… so something with some grippy texture where it’s held and/or that is thicker helps. I do like the sound of a plastic pic on round wounds… that metallic grind kind of tone in some rock.

I have felt Micks picks as well they are thick and easy to grasp plus I sand the edges on some of them to give a softer attack.

Also various hard Dunlops and a metal pick as well which really gives a biting attack.

 

[humbuckaroo]

Cat's Tongue red or purple depending on the need at that moment.

 

[Iristone]

I used 0.75~1 mm nylon picks for a long time, and the best ones were Herco reissue picks or D'Addario Nylflex picks. Later I discovered 0.71~0.96 mm moulded polycarbonate picks from Winner by Alice, and I've been using them ever since. They have a bright, clear tone (why would I use a pick at all when I want a fingerstyle tone?), and glide through the strings more easily than regular Nylon picks.

 

[dannylectro]

Clayton triangular 1.0 mm have long been my go to.

 

[BBQV]

I use Jim Dunlop Nylon 0.73mm.
A thin pick gives me a smooth attack and better tone I think. It feels nice too.

 

[dmt]

Of course preferences will vary person to person. For me, after quite a bit of experimenting, I long ago settled on the big triangular Dunlop TORTEX .73mm (yellow) picks for bass. This is in the range of a medium thickness.

For reference, I also use Dunlop Tortex yellow picks with guitar, but in that case I go with the regular "Standard" size/shape ones (still .73mm thickness).

I used to use the slightly thicker but still in the medium range greens (.88mm) on both bass and guitar (again, big triangles for bass, "Standard" size/shape for guitar), and still will if an old one of those is all I have to hand, but I’m just more of a yellower, I guess. I completely avoid Heavies (for Dunlop Tortex, 1.0mm or 1.14mm) and Thins (.50mm or .60mm), but some people prefer one or the other of those. Accordingly, you should probably experiment a bit to find your own preferences. Still, going with something in the medium thickness range seems safe enough.

Meanwhile, my favorite in terms of tone (in particular, in relation to the attack) was some felt picks I bought, but those gradually fall apart and you end up with little particles everywhere, eventually making a real mess. I could see going with felt to record a particular song or songs where that sound and feel is needed (and then throwing them out), but otherwise, I’ll just stick with my good old Dunlop yellow Tortexers (despite liking playing with the felt ones [they’re the most finger-like in the sound of the note attack], due to the inevitable attendant mess if you make the mistake of keeping them around, my felt picks are long gone and I have no plans to replace them)

 

[Element Zero]

Been using Dunlop .60 Tortex for a while now. Love em.

 

[ninjatanzen]

Jim Dunlop Max-Grip Nylon Standard Pick .60MM has been my go to for bass and guitar lately. It's grippy enough to not move around much in my fingers, but not so grippy that I can't reposition the pick easily and quickly.

Sometimes I'll use a thicker or thinner pick for fun, but my workhorse continues to be that one.

 

[Michael4bass]

Herco Heavy, the silver ones.

Bassically, Michael

 

[el murdoque]

I went to a music store, and they had about 50 different models in various strengths.
Giving each a squeeze, I bought about 25 of them to try out, quickly found that some shapes (triangle, overly large) don't work for me and that I prefer the medium strength of about 1.0mm. In my hands, a soft pick feels like all the give that needs to happen when the pick hits the sting happens in the pick.
With strong picks, all the give has to come out of my hand and with the medium ones, it comes from both places.

Knowing what to look for now, I tried a few of the medium strength medium sized picks, nearly ordered one of the Blue Chip brand, but settled on the Rombo Crisp picks.

 

[Carl Hillman]

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[BoogieZK]

I use small Dunlop 1.14mm the purple one.
Using them since 2009, i don't like big ones.

 

[SharpCat]

lol, I don't use picks much, but I had to get these from D'Add.

 

[Kokoskaka]

Try a bunch of them out. They are dirt cheap.

I personally like a Dunlop Delrin 500 .96mm. It has slightly rounded edges and glides easily over the strings. You might like something completely different.

 

[rolfplamperton]

Yes, Blue Chip