Am I the only one who finds the BKP free ones to have really rough edges after a few minutes of playing? I find them really "sticky" to pick with if that makes sense.
I do find that they wear the fastest out of the ones I use - and depending on what I've been playing, they go exactly how you describe - mebbe we're a bit too aggressive with them? :lol: But I do find the rough bit tends to wear down pretty quickly for me :lol:
I quite like the tone they produce, which was why I ordered a bunch...
But basically, I like nylon picks - they give me good bite to my tone, they're very expressive for me because they respond to lighter/heavier touch well, they wear slowly and consistently, they usually have a grip, they're nicer to chew on (! :roll:), when I was gigging I found I got less string-breakage with them... etc, etc
But I've found recently that harder plastics and mock tortoise-shell types can produce much better tones for some things where my nylon picks just give me a good compromise. But what the harder picks cannot do for me is the wide range of hard to mellow tones that a nylon gives me, they just seem more of a one trick pony in my hands. If I want that trick, that's the pony to use... But when recording a while back, I found that for all lead work I had to revert to nylon - none of the others had the requisite attack I was after or were enabling me produce enough "expression" in my playing.
I'm sure others can make the harder plastics more expressive than they can nylon - but that's the way it works for me...
It's making me wonder Tom - also based on the tones you use on recordings - have you ever tried nylon? You might get on with it...
