Why type of pick is best for a LP Trad?

[Guitarest]

Standard 10-46 strings

Les Paul Traditional

[Mac102250]

There's no "best pick" for any guitar. It's about feel and what sound you want. Go buy a bunch of different picks and find which you like best.

I find thin picks tend to have less accuracy to a small degree, but they have a snappier sound. When I was younger I'd use them because they tend to compensate for shitty playing. With hard picks, if you want to rake over the strings you kinda have angle it so it doesn't get caught.

I tend to bring a pick holder with an assortment and change picks based on what song I'm playing. For most of my playing I use a dunlop stubby 3 mm, it's got a rounded body so it slips over strings easier. It's the sound of a hard pick with the feel of a thin one. It's also more of a teardrop shape, I find I'm more accurate and much faster with this pick than with any other. Pinch harmonics are really easy with this thing.

[dspelman]

No, I'm sorry.
There's only one proper pick for an LP Trad.

The Gravity Picks Razer in 3mm.
In blue.

Gravity Guitar Picks — Razer Standard 3mm

[Guitarest]

Originally Posted by Mac102250

There's no "best pick" for any guitar. It's about feel and what sound you want. Go buy a bunch of different picks and find which you like best.

I find thin picks tend to have less accuracy to a small degree, but they have a snappier sound. When I was younger I'd use them because they tend to compensate for shitty playing. With hard picks, if you want to rake over the strings you kinda have angle it so it doesn't get caught.

I tend to bring a pick holder with an assortment and change picks based on what song I'm playing. For most of my playing I use a dunlop stubby 3 mm, it's got a rounded body so it slips over strings easier. It's the sound of a hard pick with the feel of a thin one. It's also more of a teardrop shape, I find I'm more accurate and much faster with this pick than with any other. Pinch harmonics are really easy with this thing.

Thanks, are medium gauage (0.80) considered to be like a standard pick? Combination of light and heavy benefits?

[AngryHatter]

I use v-picks.
From 1.50 to 4.10mm


What kind of toilet paper do you use?

[CheopisIV]

For me, the heavier the better when I don't drop em, then it's all fingers/thumb combo. Been thinking of nabbing some of those bone picks they always advertise in the back of magazines, but I think they'd fly out of my hands as fast as any.

[Grand Toad]

Dunlop Jazz III.

[AngryHatter]

Originally Posted by Grand Toad

Dunlop Jazz III.

Pffft - no slash tone.

[Thumpalumpacus]

There's no "best" pick for any model of guitar.

There's only "favorite picks" for each guitarist.

[Grand Toad]

Originally Posted by AngryHatter

Pffft - no slash tone.

Slash tone? We don't need no stinking Slash tone.

[JMB1984]

Try starting with either the yellow or green Dunlops and either go thinner or thicker depending on what you think feels right.

[chef]

What type of amp is best for my Les Paul?

What type of power cable is best for my Marshall?

What type of ... is good for my ... ?

Try it and find out, at least picks are usually less than a buck, sometimes only a quarter!

[Paul]

go buy a bunch of different picks, it won't empty your bank account and it's good to have a fair few laying around.

my collection goes from about ~.1 (is waferrr thin) to about 2.8mm ranging in materials, plastic, nylon, celluloid etc.

go get a bunch of picks try them all, I personally don't use the same ones for everything or the same one on each guitar for the same style.

[TerribleRacket]

Originally Posted by Guitarest

Thanks, are medium gauage (0.80) considered to be like a standard pick? Combination of light and heavy benefits?

I suppose you could look at it that way, but in doing so you'll be ignoring pick material.

Odds are, you're talking about medium weight celluloid picks. If picks are hamburgers, the Fender medium celluloid is the Big Mac of the pick world. Personally, I'm not fond of that material, but if it works for you, that's great--and that's all you need.

As suggested above, I'd blow $30 at MF buying different pick materials, shapes and weights. That'll get your feet wet and allow you to zero in on materials you like for tactile and tone reasons.

I really like the Clayton line's slightly larger conventional pick shape because it gives me a bit more control with my gorilla-sized hands. Within that line, I like specific materials for distinct tonal properties. I also use specific weights for specific purposes. If I'm turning the gain up and settling in for a bit of wanking, nothing beats a Dunlop Jazz III.

In short, you just have to spend some time, money, and effort figuring out what feels good for you...and don't forget your thumb!

[AngryHatter]

Originally Posted by Grand Toad

Slash tone? We don't need no stinking Slash tone.

Name the movie in which that was FIRST uttered.
Mel Brooks only parodied it.

[AngryHatter]

Originally Posted by chef

What type of amp is best for my Les Paul?

What type of power cable is best for my Marshall?

What type of ... is good for my ... ?

Try it and find out, at least picks are usually less than a buck, sometimes only a quarter!

What kind of woman is right for me?
Picks are easy.

[TerribleRacket]

Originally Posted by AngryHatter

Name the movie in which that was FIRST uttered.
Mel Brooks only parodied it.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, right?

[Thumpalumpacus]

I like experimenting with picks ... and without picks.

Go commando, it'll change the way you hear things.

I came up with a cool blues thing last night that will become a song one day by dropping my pick and not wanting to stop and fetch it out of the guitar.

[Guitarest]

Originally Posted by TerribleRacket

I suppose you could look at it that way, but in doing so you'll be ignoring pick material.

Odds are, you're talking about medium weight celluloid picks. If picks are hamburgers, the Fender medium celluloid is the Big Mac of the pick world. Personally, I'm not fond of that material, but if it works for you, that's great--and that's all you need.

As suggested above, I'd blow $30 at MF buying different pick materials, shapes and weights. That'll get your feet wet and allow you to zero in on materials you like for tactile and tone reasons.

I really like the Clayton line's slightly larger conventional pick shape because it gives me a bit more control with my gorilla-sized hands. Within that line, I like specific materials for distinct tonal properties. I also use specific weights for specific purposes. If I'm turning the gain up and settling in for a bit of wanking, nothing beats a Dunlop Jazz III.

In short, you just have to spend some time, money, and effort figuring out what feels good for you...and don't forget your thumb!

Yes! Red Celluloid medium gauge picks are the only ones I have ever used and they've been working pretty well. Will increasing gauge make strings easier to snap?

[Electric Funeral]

I tried every pick I could until I settled on Herco Flex 75's or Jazz III XL's. Took me a few years to finally settle into what is best for me. It'll probably work the same for you.

[rockstar232007]

Originally Posted by Thumpalumpacus

There's no "best" pick for any model of guitar.

There's only "favorite picks" for each guitarist.

I beg to differ.

I tried using Fender pics with both my LPs, but they sounded too thin.

[Mac102250]

Originally Posted by Guitarest

Will increasing gauge make strings easier to snap?

No, actually it's the other way around.

[TerribleRacket]

Originally Posted by Guitarest

Yes! Red Celluloid medium gauge picks are the only ones I have ever used and they've been working pretty well. Will increasing gauge make strings easier to snap?

If you're a string basher, they certainly will.

I would definitely try some heavy picks, pronto. You'll be able to feel the strings absorbing the extra energy that a heavy pick imparts, and this should give you a better sense for how the pick and string react together. Also, doing so will likely make it clear to you why a light touch is preferable to string bashing, you'll hear it and you'll get it--it's just something you have to learn via touch, I'm afraid.

Also, remember that different materials behave differently at different thicknesses. Light celluloid picks are really floppy, medium celluloid picks are kinda stiff, and thick celluloid picks are really stiff. My favorite pick material for rock is really stiff at thin thicknesses, and my favorite material for warm picks is pretty stiff at "medium" thicknesses.

I wish I could be more specific about things, but it really is incumbent upon you to experiment. Only you know what feels and sounds right, and that may change with time, so keep experimenting--and don't forget your thumb!!!

[BluesDriveMonster]

Dunlop gator grips

[TerribleRacket]

Originally Posted by Mac102250

No, actually it's the other way around.

I see that claim so frequently, there must be something behind it, and I've often wondered about it.

When I was younger, slimmer, and playing really fast, I found it handy to start the first song of the set with a light acetal pick to slow me down and keep myself from bashing the strings. Granted, I was playing string bashing music at the time, so perhaps I'm a bad test case?

At any rate, it seems to defy a common sense comprehension of physics--which real physics has a nasty habit of doing

[budg]

Originally Posted by AngryHatter

Name the movie in which that was FIRST uttered.
Mel Brooks only parodied it.

That would be "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

[Quicksilvergoat]

You ask what pick? The " Pick of Destiny" you fools.


Sorry. Somebody had to say it.

[CheopisIV]

Originally Posted by budg

That would be "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

Originally Posted by TerribleRacket

Treasure of the Sierra Madre, right?

Pfft, UHF!!

[vladmaximus]

O____O'


pick ???

LOL

[Shawn Lutz]

I use Fender heavy's but for some reason they don't work when I use my Traditional...

is this a real serious question or satire? Honestly its tougher and tougher each day to determine the parody threads from the real ones