Often Overlooked......Plectrums....

vantasic

i use a paul gilbert signature one, i love the sharp but not too sharp point on it, i used to use the white one originally released and now i found the black one,lovely. not mad about the totrex ones, i like the shiny plasticy 500 tortex type ones though. i used to love stagg heavy ones too, dunno where to get em any more though.

Ravelleman

The Dunlop Jazz 3 for me. In red. Red makes you play better.

BuddhaJoe

Bought 24 of em off Ebay for 8 quid and its all I use now.

Edit: Snap!

Voodu Child

Dunlop Jazz III Gold (Ultex) are my faves.

-=al=-

pg threw his pick at me and it landed on my chest, fun times

cant use any other ones than JD nylon ones

brendansmith

Ravelleman wrote: »

The Dunlop Jazz 3 for me. In red. Red makes you play better.

Damn straight, the smaller the better, the pointier the better, the thicker the better.

Thats a mans pleck!

NoQuarter

Herdim picks, wouldnt use anything else, came across them by chance like 6 years ago and never looked back! plus they are perfect for tapping if you dont use your fingers!


Also ive just found out while looking for that picture that apparently these plecks are the ones the edge uses to get that chimey sound! so of course i picked up the strat and had a go at "where the streets have no name", it does sound better so ill have to try it full blast tomorrow!! :D

brendansmith

king-stew wrote: »

Herdim picks, wouldnt use anything else, came across them by chance like 6 years ago and never looked back! plus they are perfect for tapping if you dont use your fingers!


Also ive just found out while looking for that picture that apparently these plecks are the ones the edge uses to get that chimey sound! so of course i picked up the strat and had a go at "where the streets have no name", it does sound better so ill have to try it full blast tomorrow!! :D

They are good picks alright,

Do you use the tangy cheese flavour or the cool original flavour? weh weh weh:pac::D

Patricide

Jazz 3, those herdim ones for acoustic. And a freind of mine showed me these new pics i cant think of the name but they have a kind of gouge cut out of em i thought they were pretty bitchin.

NoQuarter

brendansmith wrote: »

They are good picks alright,

Do you use the tangy cheese flavour or the cool original flavour? weh weh weh:pac::D

I use the red for smokin solos, the yellow for chords and indie, and the blue for........well......BLUES silly!!!!! :eek::D:pac:

John

I only use the standard Dunlop Nylon 0.73 plecks. Never liked any other I've tried, either too easy to break or too unyielding. I've also been known to use my fingers, Ebow and violin bow.

brendansmith

John wrote: »

I've also been known to use my fingers, Ebow and violin bow.

good man

Dord

I use Dava picks. More specifically their "Rock Control Pick", it's a nice grippy pick with a delrin insert.

Also, I've been known to use Dunlop Jazz III's (red) sometimes.

Fingers Mcginty

BuddhaJoe wrote: »

Bought 24 of em off Ebay for 8 quid and its all I use now.

Edit: Snap!

Me too...great picks

Red Sleeping Beauty

I swear by these Pickboy Carbon Nylon plectrums.
They're the strongest plectrum I've ever had. Dunlop Jazz IIIs are the only ones I can play with other than these so they get a vote too...


But these are fantastic, I tried the "Edge" plectrums from Pickboy but they're too small for me.

NoQuarter

How the hell do ya break a plec!?!?!?!?

Seriously what do you fellas be doin!?

Sounds like the time i broke my fat E string! like how does that happen!??!:p

John

king-stew wrote: »

How the hell do ya break a plec!?!?!?!?

By allowing the awesome power of rock to control your picking hand.

Dord

king-stew wrote: »

How the hell do ya break a plec!?!?!?!?

Seriously what do you fellas be doin!?

Sounds like the time i broke my fat E string! like how does that happen!??!:p

I had a few Fender celluloid picks I got free before. Useless, they cracked and broke. :rolleyes:

I've broken a few 0.105 E strings on bass before. There was a burr on the saddle. Other than that I haven't broken any strings.

68 lost souls

I swear by these.


Dunlop 3mm Big Stubby

and I use Dunlop Nylon aswel.

Johnny Storm

I like the 2mm Stubby Triangles. Very grippy. Hard to go back to a flat plectrum after getting used to these.

-=al=-

any other simple 1.0mm dunlop nylon users here? lots of fancy arse plectrums here

Sofaspud

.60 or .73 nylons for me. Usually out of a "match pik" book!

freshcream

-=al=- wrote: »

any other simple 1.0mm dunlop nylon users here? lots of fancy arse plectrums here

+1 :pac: or just my thumb, index and middle fingernails, when I have some.

fish-head

-=al=- wrote: »

any other simple 1.0mm dunlop nylon users here? lots of fancy arse plectrums here

Yep. That's the job for me. That and my fingers, for when I'm feeling a bit Chet Atkins.

Squirrel

I use a Wedgie Nylon XT .60 http://www.wedgie.com/

I have two of them floating about the place, one in the pocket of the jeans I'm wearing and one somewhere and I find it occassionally. I used to have more but lost most of them, and don't know where I got them to get more. Very rarely I'll use a Jim Dunlop .88 or .73

DAEDULUS

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68 lost souls wrote: »

I swear by these.


Dunlop 3mm Big Stubby

and I use Dunlop Nylon aswel.

I tried those but I thought they lacked the 'bite' of my usual dunlop .60mm

500x

3MM Dunlop Stubby for me on electric, fingers on acoustic.

Went from a Nylon .73, to a Nylon .88, to a Nylon 1mm, to a Jazz III (red of course!), to the Stubby 3mm.

The stubbys are great when they're new, but the points wear very quickly on them.

Problem is, I find it very hard to use larger picks now. Using them takes my already crappy playing to a whole new depth...

Here's another thing:

I've lost thousands of picks at this stage, and they never show up. Where do they end up - pick Heaven.. or even pick Hell?

I'm for ever buying packs of them, and a month later... I'm out of picks.

If only I was losing them by tossing them out to adoring fans... My only fan is sitting here on my desk, keeping me cool.

NoQuarter

Good point! i dont recall EVER throwing a pick out yet im forever buying more! hmm.......pick heaven you say......

Dord

I've found a few in the washing machine before. One of them I hadn't seen in months. :eek:

John

Dord wrote: »

I've broken a few 0.105 E strings on bass before. There was a burr on the saddle. Other than that I haven't broken any strings.

I broke a D string on the bass before and was constantly breaking strings on my Epiphone Les Paul. Haven't had that problem with my Gretsch, must have been the Epiphone's fault!

Oh and I never lose plecs, I still have the same four I bought 6 years ago!

spoonbadger

John wrote: »

I broke a D string on the bass before and was constantly breaking strings on my Epiphone Les Paul. Haven't had that problem with my Gretsch, must have been the Epiphone's fault!

Oh and I never lose plecs, I still have the same four I bought 6 years ago!

???.

wtf :pac:.

I normally use .73 or .88 dunlop tortex plecs. I absolutely hate nylon ones,they just feel dead.

Those carbon nylon picks are pretty damn cool alan!.I used to use them,but the only store in town that stocked them closed down. I love thin,rigid plecs, so those were perfect!!.

John

spoonbadger wrote: »

???.

wtf :pac:.

Take guitar out of case. Take plec out its place stuck in between the strings at the second fre. Play guitar. Return plec to its place. Replace guitar into its case. Don't buy more plecs.

Red Sleeping Beauty

I broke an A string once.
I was listening to and playing a lot of Who at the time so bashing the **** out of the strings was a necessatity!


The plectrums I buy are expensive, I'm ****ed if I know where they go.

mattfender

Yellow tortex does tha trick for me :pac:

yevveh

I only play acoustic at the mo, I just use the red Planet Waves picks or the X Music version. Used to use the Dunlop .73 but found it a bit thick and the one below it to be thin, so I switched.

I do some fingerstyle on guitar, and for bass use fingers 99% of the time, usually use the red Planet Waves one (or occasionally the slightly thicker orange one, whatever happens to be in my back pocket at the time, and yes there's always one there) whenever I kick on the distortion

Our guitarist uses the red / black Jazz III ones. I'd be surprised so many others here use them if he didn't tell me that they're always sold out everywhere, now I see why :P he also used the Paul Gilbert ones for a while before switching back. Actually, I believe he got hit in the head with one of Paul's plecs at the gig :pac:

MattKid

V-Pick small pointed.

Really helped my picking

http://v-picks.com/

NeMiSiS

Dunlop Jazz III .. They do grind down though a good bit
Or Dunlop Tortex H3 .. the little ones..