What is your main pick ...gauge /brand... Important stuff!

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:46 pm

I totally agree with eargasm. The Fender celluloid pick (tortoise or white) medium guage in particular, is a must have for getting at alot of the vintage tones of the past that we all know and love.The 'raking' I was talking about is that funk 'chinka chinka' type stuff, not sweeping. The simple fact of the string wearing that material a bit more is testament to how that material gets 'more' out of the string. Alot of people think a pick is a pick, but this isnt so. I would only use another pick material, if I was playing speed metal, cause those pedal tones being played 99% of the time would wear celluloid out before the solo came up. The Dunlop rhino type would be ideal for this, as they wear the least of all.

Eargasm · Post by **Eargasm** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:32 pm

Tone Slinger wrote:I totally agree with eargasm. The Fender celluloid pick (tortoise or white) medium guage in particular, is a must have for getting at alot of the vintage tones of the past that we all know and love.The 'raking' I was talking about is that funk 'chinka chinka' type stuff, not sweeping. The simple fact of the string wearing that material a bit more is testament to how that material gets 'more' out of the string. Alot of people think a pick is a pick, but this isnt so. I would only use another pick material, if I was playing speed metal, cause those pedal tones being played 99% of the time would wear celluloid out before the solo came up. The Dunlop rhino type would be ideal for this, as they wear the least of all.

Ha! FINALLY someone on this fuckin' board agrees with something I said!!!!
TS, Funny how people going for vintage tones can forget about/overlook PC elements that are often times insignificant, but nontheless crucial, huh?
But then again, we can mod our amps to make up for it...
We can mod our amps to sound like a Hard Ash guitar no matter what kind of guitar we use, and mod our amps to sound like a Ed's pickup no matter what pickup we use, so on and so forth, but some mojo is lost..why do you suppose that is?
Maybe it's best to start right at the beginning of the signal chain and go from there?
Hint, hint!

T.J.Fuller · Post by **T.J.Fuller** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:25 pm

well... Eargasm, you now have 2 that agree with ya !

Love the Fender celluloid mediums, they just don't last but, do have tone!

.....I have that feeling of Deja" Vu

......didn't someone bring up this subject on picks months ago ????

and where can you find metal picks ??? not at Sam Ash or GC

and Do they make a metal pick with A little- bit- of- give- to it ??

flexibility ..if you will

Mantegna · Post by **Mantegna** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:20 pm

.88 dunlop tortex

love em

TheToneMan · Post by **TheToneMan** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:41 am

I have never used a better pick than the fender classic mediums

rgalpin · Post by **rgalpin** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 8:24 am

grew up on fender mediums - played each one until it was a rounded shred of itself.

found dunlop .88s - later switched to .73s. i like the edge of them - sort of textured - grabs the string a bit.

now i'm back to fender mediums - this time i have a car and when they wear out, i can go buy more.

question for you fender medium lovers:
what's better Premium Celluloid - or Classic? DISCUSS!!

SoZo · Post by **SoZo** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:26 am

Ed VH said in his howard stern interview he got mouth cancer because he put metal picks in his mouth for 30 years and they attracted RF... hehe...

But he i guess uses metal picks of some sort...

I like the derlin picks the best too.......

908ssp · Post by **908ssp** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:06 am

SoZo wrote:Ed VH said in his howard stern interview he got mouth cancer because he put metal picks in his mouth for 30 years and they attracted RF... hehe...

But he i guess uses metal picks of some sort...

I like the derlin picks the best too.......

I read that before and I tried using a metal pick some years ago and it didn't agree with me. But it makes a huge difference in the sound and have wondered why with this search for Eddies sound a metal pick isn't considered essential?

TheToneMan · Post by **TheToneMan** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:10 pm

rgalpin wrote: question for you fender medium lovers:
what's better Premium Celluloid - or Classic? DISCUSS!!

the classic. to me it feels slighty stronger, and i can get a better grip

Tone Slinger · Post by **Tone Slinger** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 12:41 pm

Eddie never ever used metal picks. At least not on the classic albums and live. It is very well documented by collectors that Eddie used a medium guage (around 70-73mm) celluloid pick (basically a Fender med. with the VH logo)up until the '84 tour, where he went down in guage to a thin .47mm celluloid pick. I can actually hear that his pick was a Fender medium on the first few albums. If Ed went to a metal pick it must have started in the late 80's, cause by then I wasnt listening to him anymore (NEW stuff that is).

ericopp · Post by **ericopp** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 1:38 pm

Anyone use those stainless steel picks? Like Warren DiMartini? His approach was - everything stainless steel, from nut, strings, Floyd, frets, and picks. FWIW - Billy Gibons used old Mexican Pesos. (!)

I like the bite and chirp of PVC and celluloid - but they don't last half as long as delrin; maybe cuz I like their sound, I shred on 'em more? All my Delrins start seeming old and dull...

cary chilton · Post by **cary chilton** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:21 pm

The Delrin's have big tone, and do not sound dull like a tortex at all.

The Fender picks are great, too.

.70 guage is way too thin the play with for me, 1.0 1.3 1.5 is much better.

Depends on the playing style I guess. I play hard, so 1.0-1.5 is awesome!

TheDarkness · Post by **TheDarkness** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:35 pm

Dunlop .73s and Fender 351 mediums cover most things for me. I'm interested in trying these "cat tongues" though....

Brad737 · Post by **Brad737** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:33 pm

I love those Pickboy teardrops that are made from Meta Carbonate. My favorite Pickboys are teardrop celluloid that remind me of the real tortoise shells from ages ago, but I think they stopped making them. I prefer the 1.00mm size. The Metas have a cool model that have little holes in them to help you maintain your grip. They're awesome.

Brad

77custom · Post by **77custom** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:55 pm

edguyrocks wrote: I dig the Jim Dunlop Gels. They have this snap, that no other do....just my opinion.

+1