Let's see your PICK!

[moose23]

Blue Dunlop Tortex for bass.


Orange or sometimes yellow Tortex for guitar.

[intrepido]

Zack is such a dick.

I also use a custom set of strings, a .016, .024w, .032, .042, .052, .068 fpr C standard/Dropped Bb, and .018, .028w, .038, .048, .068, .085 for A standard/Dropped G.

OMG!! How do you keep your intonation with such a low tuning? Locking bridge/tuners perhaps? I use Planet Waves locking tuners on my LP, but it still gets sloppy when bending strings

[intrepido]

I use these for acoustic playing, sometimes for electric too. They sound awesome, absolutely recommendable.


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Golden Gate Mock Turtle Dawg. That's the name of the game. Accentuates your dynamics.

Very strange ones. Never seen these.... I'd like to try it, though

[phantasmagorovich]

They have sharp edges, they recommend to file them the way you like 'em, but I usually start out with the sharp edge.

I buy them here:
http://www.tone-toys.com/de/00000482.html


But I looked them up and this might be a good US store.
http://www.elderly.com/also/accessories/items/PK25-RND.htm

Have fun!

[BabySnakes]

green tortex which i run over with a steak knife to grip it up since things get slippery live sometimes

[magiclawnchair]

Anyone tried the colored DR strings?

i bought a set of .011" in black. they sounded good and did last a while but i never bought them again.

if you like dr strings and want to add some color to your guitar try them out.

[McSpunckle]

Dunlop yellow tortex and medium celluloid. Also have some of the shiny delrin picks (the pink/purple ones) but they don't grip so good.

I used to use Ice Pix Stix, which are just celluloid with a suction thing on back. Makes a fantastic grip, but they cost too much. Their copper flex pick is cool, though.

For strings, I use SIT on everything. They're the only bass strings I've used that could hold up to tremolo use. (well, only affordable ones)

[the.usho]

http://www.lollarguitars.com/blog/2009/08/whats-with-the-picks/

Lots of vendors drop picks into their boxes as a marketing tool and some are good (and some suck) but when i got one of these fiberboard Lollar Picks and tried it out on my jazzmaster it delivered this gorgeous muffled thick tone (they do need to be broken in because the edges are sharp) and with my acoustic they really affect the tone of the guitar, probably one of the few picks i've used that actually make an improved tonal difference.... OH, and because of the texture of the fiberboard they DON'T slip out of your hand....

because they are getting popular they've started selling them separately in their webstore....

+1 to this. Those picks are my idea of a good time, and have a very distinctive sound. I also use these:

[Mudfuzz]

[smile_man]

I lost my Devi pick, it was soo good.

Now I use a purple dunlop 1.14mm, with .12's, EB not even slinky.

I really can't play on lighter strings, they sound so awful to my ears.

[dorfmeister]

Left pick is a Dunlop Tortex .73mm
Right pick is a Wegen 7.00mm

The Tortex brings a brighter sound than the 7, but the 7 is a bit easier for me to grip and is good with chords. I also like the darker sound of the 7, but I practice with both whenever I can.

I FUCKING LOVE PLECTRUMS & PYRAMIDS.

I use whatever I can find or my fingers
my favorite strings are d'adarrios, .09s at that.
I play.... <.< jazziness >.<

I just ordered a Wegen 7. I've already got a Wegen Trimus 500 (5mm), a V-Pick Insanity (11mm), a Colossal (9 mm) and several Big Stubbies and Psychos (5mm). I say the thicker the better though the bevel on the pick really makes a difference in playability. My insanity with psycho corners gets way more play than the thinner Colossal because I like the bevel better.

[dorfmeister]

Star Gipsy Django Pick

http://www.star-gipsyplectrums.nl/page_1262643654700.html

Can't read Dutch but I could determine that it cost 15 euros.

[masked elwood]

i use fingers over 50% of the time...fender medium is my pick of choice. 11-56 GHS for standard tuning, everything else depends on the tuning. i do use various bass strings ever so often for different textures in open tunings.

[Heavy_Soul]

Fingers mostly, when not fingers I use these:



.85mm Planet Waves Duralin

[jfrey]

Dunlop Nylon Jazz III Max Grip Black Stiffo (1.38 mm)

Anything bigger than a jazz pick I feel like I'm trying to play my guitar with a tractor or something.