What guitar picks does everyone use?

[GearBoxTy]

Hey everybody!

What style and brand of guitar picks do you use if you use picks?

I've pretty much always used Fender Medium picks in the "standard" shape.  But I've noticed that I wear them down really fast.  So, today I went to a local music store and bought 7 different styles of Dunlop picks: Big Stubby (2.0mm), Tortex Standard (.73mm & .88mm), Tortex Jazz (M3), Nylon Standard (.73mm), and Gator Grip (.71mm & .96mm).  I have been trying each of them and quickly settled on the Tortex Jazz M3, Gator Grip .96mm, and Big Stubby 2.0mm.  I'll try these three at rehearsal tomorrow and at my gig on Saturday.

So, what picks do you use?

~Ty

 

[hannaugh]

I'm pretty sure there's already been a thread on picks, but I like the Dunlop Jazz IIs and the Tortex Jazz for lead stuff and the big wide Tortex thin picks for strumming, especially on acoustics. 

 

[mayfly]

I don't know if it's ego, but I just had a batch of picks made with my band name on them.  They are (hopefully) similar to the Jim Dunlop orange (my usual pick).

They were shipped yesterday - looking forward to getting them!

Yea - it was ego wasn't it?  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[SixString]

Used Fender mediums for ever.  They always worked so I never bothered trying anything else.  Then I got a Dunlop variety pack and found my one of choice....the purple dinosaur 0.96mm.  It's got a slight texture to it that my fingers seem to love.  I also use the Jazz III for intricate picking.

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Fender medium and heavy graffiti picks work for me.  :icon_thumright:

 

[SixString]

...and the big wide Tortex thin picks for strumming, especially on acoustics.

Agreed!

 

[TBurst Std]

Steve Clayton Acetals with my groups name on them.
1.26 for electric
0.80 for acoustic

 

[NLD09]

Jazz III Max grips for me. The red ones

 

[Tipperman]

Orange Dunlop Tortex picks. .60mm

 

[bagman67]

Whatever's handy, as long as it's not too thin.


Seriously:  I have literally dozens of different shaped picks of various materials I have accumulated over the years, ranging in size from these little white Gibson doodads the size of a fingernal, to these giant triangles that are two inches on a side.  Right now, because they happen to be in my pocket with my change, I favor a Dawg mandolin pick, a conventionally-shaped Fender Delrin Heavy pick, and a dark purple Dunlop Stubby triangle -- except when I don't, since I play with just my fingers a lot.


Bagman

 

[pabloman]

Dunlop Tortex, yellow, orange, and green covers just about all my needs. Mostly the .88 green ones though.

 

[Cagey]

Dunlop Tortex and Ultex sharps, the 1.0 (blue), .88 (green) and .73 (yellow).

 

[Kostas]

Dunlop Stainless Steel 0.51mm pick: the ultimate pick for me, I use them exclusively for 5+ years and I stopped looking for other picks. They are thin which I like for chords but they are hard and they do not bend which I like for heavier stuff or solos. They have a much clearer & detailded sound than everything I've used.

 

[AutoBat]

Dunlop Tortex blue. (1mm?)

 

[clearerphish]

I used to be all about the blue 1.0 mm star picks

now I'm becoming a jazz III convert.

 

[greywolf]

I play 70% with my fingers , but when I do use a pick it's a fender mediuim.

 

[Ddbltrbl]

I use the 0.88mm Hi-Modulous PEI/Ultem, Reefer picks from Pickboy.

What's everybody laughing at?  :dontknow:

They are slightly larger than the Dunlops, and are solid enough to give me more bite when I need it, but still strum well. The raised Marihuana leaf in the middle gives me extra purchase when my hand get slick and allows me to hold it a little looser without lossing control of it versus either smooth picks or ones where the non-slip pattern covers the whole face of the pick. So, I get a wider range of sounds; from a soft touch strum to heavy biting lead. I used to use the carbon ones exclusively, but I really like the PEI/Ultem mix ones better.
:guitarplayer2:

 

[erogenousjones17]

I use the black Dunlop Nylons (1 mm) for electric, and the light grey ones (.73 maybe?) for acoustic strumming. I like teh grippies.  :icon_biggrin: 

 

[AprioriMark]

Yellow Dunlop Tortex on everything.  Trying to convert my songwriting partner so I don't have to deal with her silly grey picks laying around the house.

-Mark

 

[Steve_Karl]

Mostly Dunlop Tortex .46 mm ( Pink ) but sometimes Dunlop .46 mm Nylon.
I have fender mediums around for the occasional flash back.