Picks

[Peter Barlow]

What picks are you using at the moment to play shred. I used to use dunlop tortex 1.14 but am now using dunlop stubbies 2mm. These seem to sharp and are really making my chords sound scratchy, can anyone help?

[Azrael]

I personally use Jim Dunlop "Big Stubby" 3.0 mm
They are my fav - cannot play with other pics
- and i will never understand how anyone can play with pics as thin as a sheet of paper.

-=[Azrael]=-

[lalimacefolle]

I have several picks, who look, sound, feel different, but I don't care.
I have a stock of Jazz 3, by dunlop, who were made prior to the stubbys, but I don't use them...
After a while, I have gained control over my playing, even if I have no pick and play fingerstyle...

[The Almighty]

I use a black and decker pick axe

[PittbullBlue]

LOL Azreal don't you hate those?!!!!! I'm using Dunlop .71mm

[Raskolnikov]

When I play guitar I use either blue or purple Dunlop Tortex picks. As for bass, I'm all about four fingers and a thumb.

[stevewoj]

those green dunlop ones i think they are about 80mm or so.. in my opinion are the best they give maximum control and speed.. i find it to hard to double pick with the stubbies

[Lordathestrings]

I use Dunlop Tortex reds (0.50 mm). I hold the pick at an angle that eventually shaves a sharp edge on the pick. I get precise control over the attack and the release.

Something very few players understand is that its the vertical motion of the strings that the pickups sense. The signal is generated when a string disturbs the magnetic field of the pickup magnets. String motion parallel to the face of the pickup causes very little disturbance. Only the part of the string motion that is perpendicular to the pickup face results in sound.

If you look closely at a vibrating string, you will see that its motion is a circular or oval pattern. Anything you can do to make the string move more up-and-down relative to the pickup will increase the signal produced.

Dragging a string sideways with a heavy pick and then letting it go, actually produces less attack than letting a string 'pop up' from underneath a pick that is 'shaved' across!

So now you know.

[buckshort]

I use two pick. For faster picking, i use the gray Jim Dunlop Nylon .73mm , and for just heavy rhythm powerchords and stuff, i use the black Jim Dunlop 1mm. I think both are great. The gray one is also good for soft tunes, without distortion!

[educatedfilm]

I get what your saying Lord... it works on a very similar idea (infact maybe the same), as this:

F = BIl sin è
(F=force, B= flux density, I= currnet, è= angle of currnet in relation to flux lines, l= lenght of conductor) ,which can be re-arranger to give:
I = F/ Blsinè....
So basically, the more force, and more prependicular (as sin 90 = 1) the louder the signal...I understand!

[Lordathestrings]

Some things in life do add up! :D

[lionken07]

I brought some dunlop 473R triangle stubby 1.5 a while ago, and totally hated it. Just don't like the sharp no it anymore... am using da normal Fender Med.

[Branislav]

I used Gibson T picks, but when I got Jim Dunlop .73 ii foregot Gibsons. Dunlop is great

[Barreta_jetstream1]

personaly i can't stand those "stubbies". i always use very thin picks as i think they give the best texture for rythem work. i currently use a dunlop .46 but i don't have any set favourites