Author Topic: Plectrums/Plectra/Picks (Read 10104 times)

Machek · « **Reply #45 on:** March 06, 2008, 10:17:44 PM »

they're like smaller metal bottlenecks right? small enough to still have the ability to use your finger to fret strings...

MajorPentatonic · « **Reply #46 on:** March 06, 2008, 10:22:49 PM »

Used a ton of different shapes and sizes over the years, but nowadays I just stick to good old Gibson Standard Heavy, though I prefer thin picks if I'm strumming on an accoustic.

Dakine · « **Reply #47 on:** March 06, 2008, 11:13:33 PM »

Quote from: MrBump

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and often this (not a pick but def. attack tone diff.);

What the hell are they?

slides :twisted:

worn like a ring and easily turned so still able to chord/solo. Use slide quite alot and these are best have found for me. Allow for great pulloff and fast effects.

sambo · « **Reply #48 on:** March 06, 2008, 11:20:32 PM »

^Where can you get those ring-slides Nick!? :o

Dakine · « **Reply #49 on:** March 06, 2008, 11:27:32 PM »

http://www.peacelandmusic.com/mringorder.php

have tried ALOT of slides and brass is my preference for warm biting rock and these are (for me) the best/easiest to use as can do some 'tricks' with em.

Thing is slides are VERY personal and it really IS best to try before ya buy (although most are'nt gonna break the bank).

sambo · « **Reply #50 on:** March 06, 2008, 11:32:17 PM »

Awesome, I am getting me some of them for sure. One of the littler ones me thinks.

38thBeatle · « **Reply #51 on:** March 06, 2008, 11:57:17 PM »

Hmmm, I was looking at those slides Nick. So you rate them eh. I have a glass one and a brass-in fact I was gigging tonight and played a bit of slide. I shall have a think about getting one.

Scott674 · « **Reply #52 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:04:47 AM »

All this pick talk brings me back to my Moshay picks. Years ago, after not long after I started to play guitar, my Mother got me a set of Moshay picks for christmas one year. I don't know how she got them, or why she happened to pick out those, but they were fantastic! They were nylon and had a hole in the center. They were fantastic! I got a couple dozen of them, and now, sadly, I've lost all but one of them over the years. I still have it, and I'd be damned to find any wear on it, and I can guarantee you it has been played. I took a leave from playing for about 4 or 5 years, and started to play alot again last summer. After I started to play again, I came across my last Moshay pick and decided I'd like to have some more, but they were terribly hard to find. I finally did, and they were over $20 a dozen!!! Anyone else ever use a Moshay?

http://www.jhalemusic.com/pages/strings.html

sambo · « **Reply #53 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:07:40 AM »

^Nope, but they look interesting! :)

What's so good about them?

Scott674 · « **Reply #54 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:27:36 AM »

The didn't wear hardly at all... I'd have a fender pick down to a nub, and hardly anything taken out of a moshay. The hole was nice too... I've seen other picks with holes, but the moshay's had a good edge to the hole, kind of rigid or sharp... Think of drilling a hole through metal and not filing it after, only this was in plastic of course. It held really well, never moved around really. Normally, to me, nylon picks get slippery and slide around as I sweat alot, but these didn't. The sound was good to. It had that nylon warmth, but was a bit brighter than a standard nylon was...

Or maybe it was just the mojo of the first pick that one grows comfortable with...

sambo · « **Reply #55 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:32:58 AM »

Hmmm sounds good!

Added to the list I think. Slide-rings and Moshay picks! :D