Silvertree
I love the smell of a PRS case in the morning.
- Joined
- Apr 26, 2012
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- 366
I have been using the Petrucci PrimeTone picks. I really like them.
I only get that from the acrylic stuff when the gain is up, my 'F' xh & gj are smooth as silk. Do yours have speed bevels? I go with std bevel and they don't click or chirp for me & my technique.
I also found over time that a looser grip on the pick effected my tone in a good way and gives me more pure tone and less clickityclack pick noise. Don't know the science behind that but I think my ears are perceiving it that way.
I only get that from the acrylic stuff when the gain is up, my 'F' xh & gj are smooth as silk. Do yours have speed bevels? I go with std bevel and they don't click or chirp for me & my technique.
I also found over time that a looser grip on the pick effected my tone in a good way and gives me more pure tone and less clickityclack pick noise. Don't know the science behind that but I think my ears are perceiving it that way.
I have no idea what pick chirp sounds like, I don’t think I’ve experienced it, but maybe it’s just something I never noticed?
If you can hear the difference between a good modeler and a tube amp, there's no way you'd miss the pick chirp. Even I can hear when I make it happen, and I do that a lot!
The beauty of all this pick stuff is how individually applicable it is, and what an inexpensive and simple way it is to enhance your own ideas of tone and playing style.
I have no idea what pick chirp sounds like, I don’t think I’ve experienced it, but maybe it’s just something I never noticed?
Judging from the answers here neither do I, but I thought I did. I've used it to describe the high extraneous noise when a touching the pick to a string. Stone picks do this, so I only use them for jazz (clean bassy tones). Its the sort of sound you get when touching a string with a bottleneck. So if I'm wrong wise me up fellers. hmm?
CandidPicker: Your description sounds a lot like what Rob Chapman calls pinch harmonics?!
Judging from the answers here neither do I, but I thought I did. I've used it to describe the high extraneous noise when a touching the pick to a string. Stone picks do this, so I only use them for jazz (clean bassy tones). Its the sort of sound you get when touching a string with a bottleneck. So if I'm wrong wise me up fellers. hmm?
CandidPicker: Your description sounds a lot like what Rob Chapman calls pinch harmonics?!
Judging from the answers here neither do I, but I thought I did. I've used it to describe the high extraneous noise when a touching the pick to a string. Stone picks do this, so I only use them for jazz (clean bassy tones). Its the sort of sound you get when touching a string with a bottleneck. So if I'm wrong wise me up fellers. hmm?
I hear ZZ Top a lot when you describe pick chirp. More accurately, it's the harmonics produced when you use the edge of the pick in conjunction with your thumb held closely to the pick tip, IIRC...
That's pretty much exactly what I'm talking about.
CandidPicker: Your description sounds a lot like what Rob Chapman calls pinch harmonics?!
Wow! That's shredder pick! I didnt figure you fur a 205 user!!!Dunlop Jazz 205s 2mm. Small enough for good control, thick enough for blues/jazz tones.
Dunlop Jazz 205s 2mm. Small enough for good control, thick enough for blues/jazz tones.