This happened over the weekend. When you recommend others your preferences, chances of them liking your selections is a 50/50 affair. I had some people asking why my acoustic picking sounded precise. My immediate answer- I use hard picks. I ended up giving some folks a few samples of what I use (namely DAW picks which I have plenty of) to get a feel of how non-flex (aka stiff) picks give that precise click during fast runs but the oversight here is that, the folks whom I talked to were ardent strummers. They don't do single notes on acoustics so having a hard pick would definitely be the wrong way to go. So to make amends, I recommended them the red/ green Jim Dunlops you see above (both were less than 1mm) to their delight because the raised etchings there improved their pick grip. Oh, well.
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Oh well what? You recommended something suitable while keeping in mind what they do. It should be OH YEAH
Me too sir. 0.50mm for acoustic but 5.0mm for electric.
Oh, well- I thought others can easily shift into our embrace but it seems that we tend to forget others are not us :-)
used to love >1.0mm picks, then shifted to smaller jazz III types... nowadays using thinner and more flexible picks, just like that red/green dunlop riff picks
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