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I always find out what he wants before I start loading up his stage with my gear. I learned very quickly to talk to the soundguy before I do anything. Heck - I reckon lots of the guys here have played more gigs than I've had hot dinners! I'd be taking their advice. and yet you seem to be blowing off the collective wisdom from a bunch of very experienced players who are offering you advice to help make your sound better. Yourlord - at the point at which this topic came to light, you had played a total of four (yes - 4) gigs.
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I've gotta tell you - if I were a soundguy and some dude came on to my stage with a 2x15 and an 8x10 and played anything at full blast I'd be pissed. I guess what I am saying is that, for some folks, there's a need for the pick to be like a Swiss Army knife, but, for me, I just need it to be a ball-peen hammer.Not sure how I would have pissed him off. If I hit the strings hard (as I am wont to do) with thin picks, they just bend, and I find I have to think too much about playing rather than just simply playing. I think part of the reason I prefer the heavy picks is because I really don't do any of the things you describe-I'm not much of a strummer. I'd grab one of their picks and feel like there was nothing in my hand. They also didn't hit the strings very hard, for the most part. The guys in my old band really loved thin picks because they played using many of the techniques you describe. I've tried those 1.0mm and heavier picks that some guys use.and I just can't get the feel for them.just way too stiff for my taste. I've tried those 1.0mm and heavier picks that some guys use, and I just can't get the feel for them.just way to stiff for my taste. 56mm gets a slightly different tone out of the strings. 56mm which is a nice, medium pick, and I think that's about as thick as I will ever go. 46mm it's actually heavier than say a Fender thin. These days I'm mostly using the Clayton picks.and their Ultem Gold is my favorite pick. I can just get a lot more versatility out of a thin pick than a medium/thick one. When I need some firmness out of a thin pick.I just bend it a bit by pressing on it with my thumb and pushing it down between my index and middle finger.Īnd/or I will choke up on it…or sometimes tilt it on it’s edge if I want more string harmonics…etc. With the heavier picks.I find you have to let the pick float a little more in-between your fingers…but then you don’t have a sure grip on it. I'm trying right now to get more into a medium pick.įor a lot of up/down picking technique.I just find the thin picks more useable, as I do not need to loosen the grip on the pick to get have that quick/flowing up/down motion. I on the other hand have always been a thin pick user. Consequently, I'm rarely searching for a pick onstage. Luckily, I don't worry too much about transporting them around-I usually have at least one pick in my pocket, and I have a row of about 12-15 picks double-stick-taped to the front of my amp.
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I just need that little "beak" of pick to stick out. I pretty much cover the entire pick with my fingers when I play, so there's only a tiny bit of pick exposed. I can pretty much use any of them-even the really worn-out ones-as long as there's a bit of edge left.
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Every once in a while, I'll switch over to a new one. I have picks sitting on most flat surfaces around my amp in the studio. I rarely lose them, so I tend to keep them around for a long time-I have some that look like circles. I also have about a gross of heavy matte black picks with my old band logo on them. I actually pick fairly hard (duh), so I like very heavy picks for both bass and guitar. I dislike the thin picks-they just bend wayy too much, and they feel like paper in my hands. There was a time when ZZ Top used quarters flattened on the railroad tracks. I have a stainless steel pick one of the guys from Def Leopard gave to me, but that chews up strings, too. I used stone picks in the 70s, but they chew up the strings, they break when you drop them, and they are real slick to start with, and it was always hard to find one thin enough. I have a bunch of other picks, but those are my go-tos. I got pretty used to the just under 1mm of the others, so the 1mm feels a little heavy. I like them a lot, though I'd like to see some other gauges. I swicthed to Tortex Gator Grips or ProGrips, but my most recent happiness comes from the Ultex picks. little black shavings all ovcer the guitars. harder pick which does not flex, but because of that it wears down. as the warm up they flex, and that bothers me but it lengthens the pick life. It is going to depend upon the kind of picks that you use.