Your size pick?

keeponrockin

Yellow Dunlop Tortex.

Pauk

I use Dunlop Gatorgrip .96s (purple), but think I might go for the next gauge down next time.

Novawind

Depends on what's lying around. mig, you're not a minority, I've got a Dunlop nylon with the grip in my wallet right now.

For the most part it's Fender medium celluloids, although I have some Fender heavys as well.

I haven't gotten around to it but I'd really like to try the Jazz III pick, you guys who use it really like it? What's so great about it compared to other picks?

lucylespian

Novawind wrote:

Depends on what's lying around. mig, you're not a minority, I've got a Dunlop nylon with the grip in my wallet right now.

For the most part it's Fender medium celluloids, although I have some Fender heavys as well.

I haven't gotten around to it but I'd really like to try the Jazz III pick, you guys who use it really like it? What's so great about it compared to other picks?

I tried them after reading an article in Guitar World about them. They have a dedicated following inc Satch, EJ, Petrucci, Bonamassa, Jim Root, Matt Heafy They are a kinda high performance pick, small and very accurate, allowing very fast alternate picking with an economy of movement. The tip is very firm but rounded, pushing through the string very firmly without getting hung up on it.
Like all high performance gear, they are a bit unforgiving as well, demanding accuracy from the user. They are good for hybrid picking too, allowing your pick fingers to stay close to the strings to allow the fingerstyle finger a natural motion, without the pick getting caught in the strings at unwanted times. They tuck away in a crook of a finger too. Joe Bonamassa does this a lot, allowing smooth changed from fingerstyle to picked lines.
I like em for a lot of stuff, but for fast downpicked metal, I still prefer the Gator Grip 1.14 cos they allow me to to get more finger on the pick for a better grip.
I'm really only fussy about my pick when I am playing difficult things, when I want it to help.
If I were strumming a Strat with 9's , I would use a much softer pick, the Dunlop nylons mentioned are really good for that. Most time I like a stiff pick that gives it to the strings, letting my wrist/elbow be the softness.

ianvomsaal

It really Depends on what style I'm playing . . . I've switched a ton over the years.

- For most Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative-Rock stuff I'm currently using click: Dunlop Gator Grip .71 picks (because I get good snap, and decent squeals and artificial harmonics/pinch-harmonics).
- I used to use the small click: Dunlop Red Jazz-III picks, and click: 1.5mm White Pickboy Jazz picks for all my Rock, Hard Rock, Alt-Rock work - but this seems to change every couple years.
And I switch back to the Red Jazz-III every now and then - Supposedly they've started making an click: Ultex version of the Jazz-III, which I'd like to try (if I can find them).

- If I'm playing heavy stuff with a lot of down-picking, I now use a click 1.00mm Pickboy Carbon Nylon EDGE pick. It has a fairly pointy tip (these are made from graphite carbon nylon, & are slightly smaller than standard sized picks, but not as small as the Dunlop Jazz-III) - The attack is sharp, but it retains the defined point and fine edge features appropriate for speed picking - these are fairly stiff, and are great for heavy chunky Metallica-type down-picking, or even shred-type playing.

- For acoustic work I mainly use a click: .58 Dunlop Gator Grip pick.

- For Standard Jazz I use a black Pickboy 1.0mm Pos-A-Grip Graphite Composite (really the most thumb-like sounding guitar pick I've found). Unfortunately I can't find these picks anymore (they've changed), and what I've found listed on websites are NOT the same thing as the old version - the old versions looked like the click: Red Pickboy Pos-A-Grip pick, but the black pick is made from a completely different material (and the black Pos-A-Grip picks with the gold oval on the end are not the same).
Cheers . . .

- Ian