What Pick do u use?

improv · Post by **improv** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:22 pm

This is such a user preferance question..thought it might be fun. What pick size do you use for Dave songs?

Songs with a lot of muting and strumming such as Gray St, Warehouse, 2step, etc...I've always liked playing with a .46mm on its side. I like the tone it gives. I use a .71mm on pick style songs.

And you....?

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:36 pm

EDITED: I'm retarded and need to learn how to read.

I use Medium Dunlops, the grey ones with the ridges in them and Heavy Fender black picks.

improv · Post by **improv** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:42 pm

Yeah, I know that is the pick Dave uses (got one of his actually). I was asking what pick type do the members here use. Just an open type discussion question.

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:43 pm

improv wrote:Yeah, thats the pick Dave uses. I was asking what pick type do the members here use. Just an open type discussion question.

Yeah, I should learn how to read.

Truly I chalk this one up to the ganja.

I apologize ha ha!

improv · Post by **improv** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:44 pm

lol

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:45 pm

Picks for me are all about how I can better grip them and still get the tone I like.

I can never play percussively (well) with anything less than a medium.

Brock · Post by **Brock** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:46 pm

Dunlop Tortex 0.60mm (orange), sometimes bust out the 0.88m (green).

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:51 pm

TrippnBill686 wrote:Dunlop Tortex 0.60mm (orange), sometimes bust out the 0.88m (green).

Yeah, that's what really stumps me, well it shouldn't, but Dave's playing is so tight and he gets such a cool tone by playing near the bridge in certain songs, but I am amazed how much sound and control he gets from those thinner picks.

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:55 pm

tortex .50 (red) and i have a few .6's around (orange) for most songs. a .4 nylon with 2 layers of duct tape for strummy stuff, and one of those small 1.5ers for the stone (thats the only song ive ever used it for)

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:56 pm

c_tietze wrote:
TrippnBill686 wrote:Dunlop Tortex 0.60mm (orange), sometimes bust out the 0.88m (green).
Yeah, that's what really stumps me, well it shouldn't, but Dave's playing is so tight and he gets such a cool tone by playing near the bridge in certain songs, but I am amazed how much sound and control he gets from those thinner picks.

i find that i get more control with the .5
i guess its just me, but i feel as though i have much better control over which strings i hit and at what volume with my .5er.

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:01 pm

Any Ebow fans?

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:02 pm

c_tietze wrote:Any Ebow fans?

oh i meant to start a thread about that... what the hell is it. it says its a bow for a guitar that replaces a pick and has sound effects... i dont understand

improv · Post by **improv** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:04 pm

Oh Heck yeah...an Ebow is tight. Howie Day and Cold play use it a lot. Gives a very cool feel to a song. Do you use one?

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:04 pm

improv wrote:Oh Heck yeah...an Ebow is tight. Howie Day and Cold play use it a lot. Gives a very cool feel to a song. Do you use one?

what is it? how do you use it!!!??

c_tietze · Post by **c_tietze** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:05 pm

praisedave wrote:
c_tietze wrote:Any Ebow fans?
oh i meant to start a thread about that... what the hell is it. it says its a bow for a guitar that replaces a pick and has sound effects... i dont understand

It's cool, creates a magnetic beam/wave? and virbates the strings in a way that you get these phaser like sounds. You can get flute and harp like songs with practice.

Listen to Ghost by Howie Day, he's using an Ebow on that song.

U use it instead of a pick.

http://www.ebow.com/