Question about picks

[Greenman72]

Pick one and discuss.

I always seem to be gravitating toward the exact same pick.
For me, it's the D'Addario .70mm big triangle. (346 shape)

I would rather keep using the exact same pick, and make the adjustments on the amp or pedalboard to get a different sound.

 

[J Wilson]

One track mind, could not imagine different picks for different things, but hey, that's me.

This Fender 355 shape, Heavy, in the celluloid faux tortoise shell in either Fender or the identical D'Andreas, or the D'Andrea alternate in their 'Delrex' nylon material, the blue 1mm.

Fender 355 Heavy

 

[gtirard]

Although I play with a pick on 80% of the songs, I'm not serious about picks as I should.

I've always grabbed whatever was in front of me, until I bought a huge collection of picks of all shapes, size, material and thickness, in order to test and decide what are my prefered ones.

Now I know which are my favorite, I should order dozens of them and trash the others, because for the moment, most of the time I'm left with all the ones that I dislike (because I've already lost my favorite ones) .

Anyway, thank you for posting the thread, it reminds me to take care of this issue.

 

[gtirard]

Although I play with a pick on 80% of the songs, I'm not serious about picks as I should.

I've always grabbed whatever was in front of me, until I bought a huge collection of picks of all shapes, size, material and thickness, in order to test and decide what are my prefered ones.

Now I know which are my favorite, I should order dozens of them and trash the others, because for the moment, most of the time I'm left with all the ones that I dislike (because I've already lost my favorite ones) .

Anyway, thank you for posting the thread, it reminds me to take care of this issue.

LOL. I've just asked my daughter about the great picks she gave me for my birthday, because they're my favorite and I want to buy more. Unfortunately she bought them during our hollidays in Japan, she has no clue how thick they are. So I have to buy sereval picks of different thickness untill I find the equivalent.

 

[BaltBass5]

I use a pick about 70% of the time. Always In-Tune GRIP-X XXX 1.0mm

 

[Swerve]

 

[_One//Man//Mutiny_]

I always use Dunlop prime tone .88

 

[stringthrough]

It's never too late to switch to fingers. Advantage: You'll be "stuck" with the same fingers for life.

 

[ravlin]

I use an extremely wide variety of picks:

 

[Paul New]

I use for bass the same picks I use for mandolin. 1.2 - 1.4 mm, nothing smaller than that.

 

[theguy316]

Big triangle 1.14mm and Pickboy Luminous Classic 1.20mm. Big triangle when I want to play hard and get the "picky" tone, Pickboy was the first picks I ever really tried so they probably have some kind of sentimental value to me. They also feel good in my hand. In my opinion, some song are easier to play with a pick and the change in tone is strongly preferrable. I do play with my fingers the majority of the time though.

 

[toughluck]

I use a vast array of picks. I tried Dunlop Tortex and Ultex in all gauges, most of their Primetone picks, some exotic ones, and their grippy nylon picks, I even have a full set of Graph-Tech picks.

And whenever I play with a pick, I punch myself in the face to remind myself that bassists don't use picks. I do use picks when playing acoustic or classic guitar, though, and there I prefer lighter gauges, around 1.2 mm or less if strumming would be too hard on the strings.

If I need a more selective attack, I play with my fingernail, I prefer that to using a pick.

 

[lokikallas]

It took me a while of trying different pick to settle on 1mm thickness as my preference. It took even longer to realize I prefer nylon picks, and then the last step was finding the "Max Grip" textured picks.

 

[micguy]

When I was young, I used a pick on bass, but for the last....40 plus years, whenever I try using a pick, I hate the sound. My basses are pretty bright sounding affairs, and I develop realtively hard callouses naturally, so they sound articulate enough with fingers, but with a pick....yuck. Just my reaction - nothing wrong if it works for you.

 

[tom once dead]

I bought about 100 of these back in 2012. I've warn the tip down to the black plastic on all of about 4 of them.

 

[GregT]

Whether it's a bass or guitar, most of my instruments have a pickholder somewhere. Ususally on the pickguard. I use Fender 351 Heavy picks on guitar and bass. I play fingerstyle and with a pick on both bass and guitar.

 

[Bass4ThePublic]

Dunlop .88’s on bass and acoustic guitar. Jazz 3 on mandolin and electric guitar.

 

[Kdmoo]

Always Fender medium tort. Almost superstitious about them. Not too floppy, not too stiff.

 

[Ekibnur]

I've gravitated to three different picks for most stuff, a basic medium weight for most songs, a jazz III if I'm playing anything technical down towards the bridge, and then a heavy 1.2mm one if I'm going to be downstroking 8th notes for the next 5 minutes.

 

[Laklandfan]

Dunlop gator grips have been my choice since the beginning and, for guitar, I like their herco picks.