Flatpicks: collection so far
‡ bone, ebony, ivory, horn (and a few wooden ones which don't sound so good. The bone picks, as i recall, sound nice on fretted bass/roundwounds, but I only have a fretless and they don't sound so good there.
‡ V-picks. These i like
‡ Wegens: also like
‡ casein from Papas and John Pearse: These are... interesting, very teflony. Intended use is mandolin or 12-string, they have a feel like Dawg mando picks. Like bone picks, interesting harmonic artifacts, nice rolled off neck p/u jazz tone, but 1/2 the volume of Wegens (the decibel king) and therefore not very gratifying
‡ Red Bear and Blue Chip: haven't whipped out the credit card yet.
‡ metal picks: also not purchased yet
‡ Dava, ditto
‡ not exotic: Dunlop jazz 3 red (softer than black), Tortex, ultex, jazztone. Clayton acetal for bass, not guitar
tl;dr If i had to pick one, it would be the Wegen, Tortex and Dunlop jazztone!
Fingerpicks, i can only classify 1 exotic, which I haven't tried
http://www.saddlethumbpicks.com/home.html
Friday, January 25, 2013
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Fretless Squier Strat
The Strat finally has a nut and strings and pretty much sounds like poop on the 3 treble, wound strings. Fortunately. I got wound G and B, making 4 solidly usable strings, 1 marginal and 1 sounds like broken toy piano or sitar.
I never noticed that in the best fretless video, Guthrie Govan pretty much sticks to 4 bass strings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PyOZhgQnvU
You can see the wound G more clearly in this review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yshLWYjMijo#!
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Jazz bass P/U cover, redux OR: Flat picking made easy
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