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Posted: May 12 2011 at 02:57 |
What picks/plectrums do you use?
I use this for my Fender Strat:
This on my other electric and acoustic guitars:
And this one for the bass:
Edited by irrelevant - May 12 2011 at 02:57
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 03:00 |
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JD gray nylons, .73 or .60 mm
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 07:20 |
I'm not really picky about my picks. My current batch are blue.  Eric Johnson's CD Bloom comes with one he likes to use. It's small thin and red.
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Vompatti
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 07:28 |
Jazz III 
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Epignosis
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 07:30 |
Black Jazz III for me. 
 For acoustic, I use Fender thins:
Edited by Epignosis - May 12 2011 at 07:32
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Vompatti
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 07:39 |
I'm in touch with my feminine side so I can haz a red Jazz III k  (Actually I have three of both.)
Edited by Vompatti - May 12 2011 at 07:49
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 08:05 |
typically 1mm or less, but occasionally also heavier picks. The reason I've preferred Dean Markley picks over all the others over the years is because their surface is far less slippery than that of the typical pick.
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Negoba
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Posted: May 12 2011 at 10:32 |
I love the sound of thins to strum acoustic but I tear them up too quickly.
My dad turned me on to the idea of a three headed pick, if something slips in your hand you're good and if you chip one tip you're still good.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 01:36 |
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damn you guys use some heavy ass pix
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progkidjoel
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 02:55 |
 Vompatti wrote:
Jazz III
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These.
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bogg808
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 05:58 |
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+2
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Hoipolloi
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 08:34 |
It generally depends on what guitar I'm using and what song I'm playing  I'll use a .5 for strumming acoustic songs, then go for a heavier pick when I'm picking or playing my Strat.
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 09:20 |
Wait a minute ... actually right now I'm using these:
Very similar to the Dean Markleys - and even more "grippy".
Edited by Mr ProgFreak - May 18 2011 at 01:31
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Repner
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 22:08 |
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I've got some red, black, and Ultex Jazz IIIs. Tend to favour the Ultex ones. Bloody things keep going missing though
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 17 2011 at 23:47 |
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I remember Dean Markleys, good texture and feel, used them quite a bit when I was learning
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SaltyJon
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Posted: May 18 2011 at 02:21 |
A highly customized, right-handed version of this sweet model: 
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Tapfret
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Posted: May 18 2011 at 16:30 |
^I've seen that hand before! 
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jammun
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 19:53 |
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I was going to add, it seems the really skilled ones (Beck, Knopfler) just don't bother with a pick at all.
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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Atavachron
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 20:00 |
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Well goody for them and their oh-so-advanced fingerpicking style; "oh yes, we just use our hands, cause, well, we're English and it's cool and we save hundreds on picks."
* jealously walks away wishing he could sound like either one of them *
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jammun
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Posted: May 19 2011 at 22:08 |
Atavachron wrote:
Well goody for them and their oh-so-advanced fingerpicking style; "oh yes, we just use our hands, cause, well, we're English and it's cool and we save hundreds on picks."
* jealously walks away wishing he could sound like either one of them *
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Well I have a bunch of Dunlop nylons .60mm very light and pliable as I ain't much of a fingerpicker. Wish I was, because it seems to get fairly good results for the two I mentioned 
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Can you tell me where we're headin'?
Lincoln County Road or Armageddon.
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