Do you use you pick as a tone knob?

[JayBee1404]

Don’t we all?

Differing attack angles, turning the pick to use a different tip, closer to or further away from the bridge, yadda yadda. Done those things pretty much automatically for the past 60+ years.

[L50EF15]

Originally Posted by Brent Hahn

Here's a rabbit hole: even if you don't like Fender Celluloid Mediums (or Heavys, pick one) buy a pack of tortoise, a couple different solid colors, and Clown Vomit if they have it. Compare tone, feel and "bendiness."

This is absolutely true in my experience: For the first seven or eight years, I played a Fender Heavy red most of the time. It felt stiffer than the tortoise pattern celluloid. When I moved to the Extra Heavy, I noticed a difference in stiffness and wear between solid colors and the various patterns.

[movehome]

Originally Posted by Bluemonk

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1.2 mm is pretty much my sweet spot. If all that were available were .5 or .6, I'd be doing finger style exclusively.

I'm just learning this now. I got a new guitar and realized once I got it home that it was so bright and was really worried about it. I was using a really thin pick. Switched to a 1mm and 1.5mm, which I've never used on an acoustic before, and man I can't believe the difference. The guitar sounds amazing now.. so much more tone and it's not fatiguing at all anymore.

The clicky pick sound on the strings is a problem though that you don't get with thin picks. Strumming is also more fun and easy with a thin pick although I probably just need to learn the technique of strumming with a thick pick.

[Robin, Wales]

Originally Posted by movehome

I'm just learning this now. I got a new guitar and realized once I got it home that it was so bright and was really worried about it. I was using a really thin pick. Switched to a 1mm and 1.5mm, which I've never used on an acoustic before, and man I can't believe the difference. The guitar sounds amazing now.. so much more tone and it's not fatiguing at all anymore.

The clicky pick sound on the strings is a problem though that you don't get with thin picks. Strumming is also more fun and easy with a thin pick although I probably just need to learn the technique of strumming with a thick pick.

As an alternative or addition to going thicker a more rounded pick shape (the part you hit the strings with) or a different pick material will change the "pick click" and make strumming easier.

I'm staying with my son and his family this week. My daughter in law has a nice dread so I have been playing songs for my grandchildren. She only has a Fender medium teardrop pick. So I just flipped it on its side and that gives me a mellow tone and easy strum.

[Murphy Slaw]

Originally Posted by Robin, Wales

a more rounded pick shape (the part you hit the strings with) or a different pick material will change the "pick click"

The roundness is like another knob.

I tend to prefer the Wegen BG100 roundness.

It's not too round, yet not too sharp.

[gurroz]

Originally Posted by Bluemonk

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1.2 mm is pretty much my sweet spot. If all that were available were .5 or .6, I'd be doing finger style exclusively.

My feelings exactly.

[pmelsa]

Besides moving my pick closer to the fingerboard and closer to the bridge to change one, I also sometimes strum at an angle to adjust treble vs. bass relative to each other.

[Moldstar]

I use a tortex 1.15, and I can get any tone I want depending on how I hold the pick, how much of it is sticking out, the angle of the pick, and where I pluck the string in relation to the bridge. Doesn't everyone?