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.
