Guitar Pick Shootout: $25 vs 25¢! The easiest way to improve your guitar tone and playing.
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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Can you tell the difference between a 25 cent pick and a 25 DOLLAR pick You will be amazed. The easiest way to improve your guitar tone is by using a different pick.
This video is a shoot out of 5 of the most common guitar picks. These picks were a gift from @sweetwater! Make sure to support them and they'll help you find badass guitars and gear!
Primetone 1.3mm sculpted picks
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D'Andrea Synthetic Tortoise Shell
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Dunlop Nylon .60mm
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I use an actual tortoise as a guitar pick and I get great tone with him 🐢
Brought a piece of shell back from the Carribean back in the 70's ... still haven't gotten around to cutting out a pick.
Me too. Also taught him to tune the guitar. Really saves time at gigs.
Well, are you sure he's really, really enjoying it?
Nearly choked on my drink with the imagery lmao.
too immoral
The .60 nylon pick.is my favorite acoustic pick k
.88mm
I use Blue Chip hand made picks , fab sounds
I’m at a stage where I not only loosing my picks, but also my pick cup.
Cats tongue #53 -73. Not a big fan of really stiff picks and yes I think I hear a difference.
So many choices! -Just too hard to pick.
You might as well go all the way now and get the Bluechip. Its fantastic. Always my favorite. I have to admit the triangle primetone is like 90% there but the Bluechip always wins.
Great video. /// I have a Gravity "gold" pick. One of the triangle/different bevel style. I didn't pay $25 for it & wouldn't. I was ordering something from Sweetwater (already getting free shipping) & these were promo priced @ $13 (labor day sale or something). I couldn't help myself. I like it for playing bass. Other than that it's a little heavy. /// Again, great show.
Ive used Herco FLEX 75's forever. If you use a 60mm pick regardless of material, it will be floppy and be great for straight rhythm and lousy for everything for everything else. I'd be certain thin floppy picks are made for that. I would like to have seen you use all 1.0mm picks. I personally can't use heavy picks for rhythm. They'll land all over the place. I need a pick that gives for that. Conversely, Lead runs, lines and solos are somehow easier to play with a heavier pick with less give. Anyone that pays $25 for a guitar pick is nuts. For most of us that play rhythm and lead the trick is to find a happy medium
Must disagree..liked your playing best and the sound with the nylon pick!
After 18 years, my wife still doesn’t understand how she keeps finding picks in the dryer.
That's nothung when I order a new guitar I wait outside for UPS truck before she finds out. 🥶
The dryer also known as the guitar pick collector unit🤘🏻
😂
@@IsakuItouwife keeps finding guitars in the dryer.
I'm sorry...$25 picks? Yeah.... No!
If you’re playing a $7k guitar, why not?
@@CenterThePendulumI’ve found this funny as well. Thousands for guitars, pedals amps, but when it comes to the actual thing between you and the instrument a few bucks is a deal breaker.
Guitars/pedals/amps are easy to keep up with....a $25.00 and up pick isn't. No way I'd spend that on a pick when you can get dozens that work and sound just as good for less money.
For posers.
Lol where I come from south africa shit country our rad vs doller is terrible so I pay any where from 20 to 10 Rand for line Dunlop or daddario black ice but 1.10mm is working 4 me my2 cents
@patrickniemi9916 No one with a functioning brain is paying $25 for a piece of plastic when you can get a 20 for the same price. Stop tryna be different.
You can't compare different thicknesses of picks for a sound comparison, they are too different. That being said you have to be completely off your rocker to pay $25 for ANY pick A good pick is anything that sounds good when you use it...Brian May uses a coin, so...
Here’s what gets me about these ‘comparison’ videos. When you want to do a true comparison on one element of a product (in this case the pick material) then you really need to reduce all other variables i.e. keep all other elements the same. Keep the thickness of the pick the same, play the same tunes/riffs.
One of the main things that affect the tone of the pick is the thickness, so it seems pointless to use picks of all different thickness when drawing comparison on material, make and cost.
Spot on. I use 1mm nylon Jim Dunlop and I don't like the thinner nylon Jim Dunlops either.
@@eddieb8337 the thin nylons are very forgiving for beginners.
Exactly....if you use a paper thin Dunlop pick, of course it’s floppy and shitty...the .88mm are great
@@eddieb8337 yep
@@Revansstuntdouble huh? Smh
I am actually stunned that I liked the $25 pick the most. You said tighter and the word I used while listening is cleaner. This surprise literally made me laugh out loud because I get that certain materials make everything sound a bit different, but I honestly never thought that cost would be something I would have associated with "better" when considering guitar picks.
I've been using Dunlop nylon for years, 1mm for electric and various thinner gauges for acoustic. The logo makes a nice grip... and they never EVER break
Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Every time I use a nylon pick, it breaks.
@@charliet.sanford2495 I've had to pitch them because they get worn down, but I dont think I ever broke one... and I used to play a bit hard with the 1mm black picks on .011 strings
Same, but reversed. I use the thicker one on acoustic and the thinner on electric. I break less electric strings doing that. In fact, you can hear the thicker JD nylon on my acoustic in a song I made up on my profile. :)
Yep
@@charliet.sanford2495 I surprised myself with a pick ' shatterig' I assumed these devices where manufacturered to last a whle.
when I was a kid I would use old pay as you go credit card things and a dremmel drill to fashion my intended pick . I enjoyed doing that. still have a few ( kocking-about). perhaps I should have invested my time with more playing. I 56 now, still enjoy the guitar. I am good at copying others, but I no inavator ( can't even spell the word) I need to copy it from someone who knows.
I am 75 and still use a Fender 351 medium. The thickness of the originals was .51 back when there wasn't a choice of any thickness, lol. It was for years the yardstick all new picks were judged against. I play high gain Metal often with fast temp's and use a lot of triplicates. I need definition on the attack yet just enough give for chords. I hold the pick so low that merely a tiny deselection if the angle allow for pinched harmonics even at blistering tempo. Yet within the same tune I can do parts where i am primarily flatpicking.
Hold it.
It's perfectly reasonable to not like nylon picks -- I don't particularly like them myself. But everything you said about why you didn't like them had to do with using a *thin* pick. I listened to you and thought "well, use a thicker one, then." That's nothing to do with nylon picks specifically.
Then, the picks you used for the demos *weren't* all around 1.0mm. The nylon and tortex picks were thin; hell, the nylon was 0.6mm, which is thin even for the nylon picks. The difference between nylon 0.60mm and 0.88mm is huge. So how much of what we were hearing was the different pick material/design, and how much was the pick thicknesses?
I worked in a guitar shop for quite a while and had my pick of Picks (pun intended) but my favourite is still the Jim Dunlop 0.73 Nylon!
I've tried all the brands, and thicknesses, but personally I just prefer the 0.73 Nylon. Each person will have different favourites, so this video shouldn't be taken as an answer to which pick is best, just which ones Jeremy prefers.
@@Ken_James_SV i agree, my favorite pick.
My thoughts exactly. I love an 0.88mm nylon for acoustic rhythm. Nice strum, still reasonable stiffness for clean passages. Electic I tend to go heavier 1.3-1.5mm.
Exactly what I said lol
I just cut off a corner of my credit card- It's useless anyway, I bought too much gear.
I recommend everyone check out the Dunlop Ultex picks, especially for lead guitar. I used Fender mediums for decades until I was playing with a friend who thought that was crazy and said "the heavier, the better" for him. So I bought the two Dunlop variety packs (light/medium and medium/heavy) and tried them all. I ended up liking the .90 mm Ultex Sharp for its stiffness and its pointed tip, which improved my picking accuracy for leads.
I’ve tried scores of picks but keep coming back to the Dunlop Nylon .73mm …I totally disagree about the lack of low end …I love bass response as well as articulation and this pick does it all for me.
Wow...I seriously had no idea about how different pics made guitars sounds. For real, I've used the Dunlop (grey nylon) pics for at least 10 or more years & simply would not use anything different. I use the darker grey (78 I believe is the #)
Seriously going to have to try some different ones now. Won't be the $25 one tho cause I ain't rich 😂
Adam Jones of Tool uses 0.73 to 0.88 Dunlop nylon picks…and we all know what a no-low-end, Christian worship tone he has. If the sarcasm is lost on you, while I prefer Tortex, Ultem/Ultex, and Celluloid picks, I have learned to appreciate Nylon picks, and you couldn’t be more wrong about them.
Also: Examples are far too long for a good comparison.
I've used a lot of different picks. Favorite is Dunlop Nylon .60 (grey).
Fair winds and following seas to all.
I go with 1.5 max grip. I beat the strings up.
You really need to try the thicker Dunlop nylon pics. I have the 1.0 and the 1.14 nulons and they are excellent!
Yea I like the 1.0 nylon Dunlop
what a crappy comparison. I love the nylon picks and you can't crap on it if you're not comparing it equally with the other picks. Any sub.66 pick is going to sound floppy and thinner. I use the.88 nylons.
"Does this sound better and can you PICK it out?" Nice. Well done. To me, the 4th pick (Stupid expensive one) sounded a lot more quiet requiring deeper picking to get the same volume which is not good at all. They can keep those as far as I am concerned.
Har har har, I love the puns you pirate you.
the absolute most useful pick I ever used is the Swedish 'Sharkfin'. It's like 4 picks in one.
Any of those picks in the paper thin sizes would suck! Jim Dunlop nylons are best in dark grey or black and they last forever!
$25 for a guitar pick? Man, have I got a bridge to sell you!
I'm with you Jeremy, PrimeTone 0.73mm is my absolute favorite, even over BlueChip TD-40. My second pick is yellow Dunlop Tortex 0.73, just a great all-rounder.
Having said that, I'm curious about a Gravity pick. How did it feel and sound compare to PrimeTone? I guess they've used the same material as BlueChip, maybe I'm wrong. Anyways, thanks for a really helpful review!!
Dunlop Prime Tone are great picks, Best part is that you can file out the string gouges with a basic finger nail board. Super great pick for about 80 cents per pick and they last a long time.
play shorter samples to compare. like 15 to 20 second samples.
Jim Dunlop .73 nylon all day for me. Never found anything else close.
Me too! Been using them for many years and I've tried lots of picks.
Call me crazy...I honestly didn't know what pick ANY of the picks were as you played. Due to your breakdown of the Dunlop I figured that was the one at first or second, which both sounded worst to my ears. At the five spot I thought it sounded bright, and was generally a better sound up and down..I was hedging the bet of that being the Gravity...but it was the Dunlop. Yep. I said it. The Dunlop sounded best to me. Looked like you were going smooth as a babies powdered butt. IMO - Dunlop won this.
Get a $50 bluechip pick and redo the test... also consistency is the only way this test is valid.. same guitar, same song, same pick thickness
Got my Blue Chip for 40 bucks and free engraving. Also use a Blue Chip for my dobro.
buz butler now yer talkin
Fender celluloid mediums in red tort is all I need.
I've tried about 12 different medium picks, but celluloid Fender medium is always winner! Tortex Flex 0.73 is close second, little bit brighter sound, I start using it when the strings start to get older and start to sound dull ;)
If you’re buying picks for more than 50 cents, I think you just need to get good at playing.
Agree! I bought many picks and I still suck at guitar!!!
bluechips are 40$
I'm glad he admitted that he was playing with NO extra picks taped somewhere just in case. That clinched my 'credibility' doubts and it's where I stopped the video and wrote this comment. Just think ahead further than the length of your nose, and all's well no matter what kind of pick you like.
Also i reccomend that next time you do a comparison like this do multiple shorter demos with each so there isnt as much time inbetween. Like 10/15 seconds of each then cycle back through again
I recently switched to the Primetone. I mostly strum, not a lot of single notes. I am a fan of the .88 for my J-45.
The .88 Primetone is my favorite strumming pick (at the moment).
@@theonlyrobot My new favorite for electric is a 1.0. Beefy yet subtle
Try using your fingers
I think that the Fender medium is always reliable.
Been using them for 30 years.
Too slippery for me
Thats what I started with recently then bought a dunlop variety pack and fell in love with the tortex and jazz pick medium fenders I was using jusy seemed to flimsy and the tine on the tortex made me happy and i didnt get that flapoy noise like I did with the medium fenders but to each their own. Guess they are reliable tho. :)
I did a giant pick challenge a few weeks ago.....thanks to Phil McKnight....I had one of every pick possible.....I ended up switching to the Jazz3 then I tried every type of Jazz 3 possible. Ended up settling on the Jazz 3 Carbon Fibre for Acoustic and the Jazz 3 Ultex for electric.....I could not believe how different the sounds were from the various types of Jazz 3 picks
I like the Jazz 3 picks too. Maybe I'm a weirdo (ok I'm weird) but I really like the heavy nylon Jazz 3, especially for flatpicking.
Thousands of picks over 60 years. I can not part with them. A love / hate relationship. Thanks Jeremy. Great insight and entertaining.
Thanks Warren "G".😎🏖🏖
nylon by far my favourite to use..... yours is just too thin. they are the smoothest and give me the best dynamic control
I have use many pick. I found I prefer the dunlop standard nylon .88mm pick. I agree the thinner nylon is horrible. That just me.
My mother gave me a bone pic or it maybe it's made out of stone. I would not want to have a $25 pic unless it has a homing device cuz I always lose them
They all sounded the same.
What works for me... I've used Fender 351 thins for 30+ years, and I use the side instead of the tip, and I also use two sided tape for better balance, control, and hold. Jeremy, have you ever tried a thin stone?
#1 sounded best to me, with #4 coming in second.
Hi Jeremy, I've done a similar video myself.
Firstly, I'd say that no pick under 1 m/m is worth using for a player who is past the windscreen wiping strum.
Secondly, as you mentioned, the 346 large triangle is far easier to control accuracy and tone that the 351 teardrop style.
Thirdly - When it comes to choosing picks/plectra (I'm a Brit) -I believe that
the choice is as personal as underpants!
1. Primetone 1/5 m/m (yours was thinner) - (I believe they are Tortex or Ultex). Obvious copy of Bluechips but nowhere near. At least Dunlop learnt to add bevels.
2. Tortex yellow (.73m/m?) For learners only. Thin - flappy energy sapping.
3. D'andrea PLEC 1/5 m/m celluloid. (Same as Fender extra heavy) right shape wrong material - Celluloid wears and tends to break. (Tried to add bevels - they melted!)
4. Gravity Picks - Dunno, not tried them - can't comment.
5. Dunlop - ultra thin nylon - Nylon is not a bad material, I used Martin Naturaltone 1.2 m/m Nylons for years - but sample too thin to be taken seriously.
Here is my video : ruclips.net/video/CCVSEv2GrEE/видео.html
Jeremy, I don't expect you to respond, but it would be nice if you did.
nice playing, i used to like Jim dunlop nylon medium picks, for rock good for harmonics, then I joined a blue grass bands friend put me onto harder tortoise picks, your absolutely right I had to change the way I used my wrist, but I got more speed and control,i have been playing blues for the last 40 years, and use medium picks synthetic tortoise,and fingers' think you can be trusted, and you're advice to me is exactly what I have found, good honest review, by good musician,
I don't agree that ALL Nylon Dunlop picks would be bad. It all depends on how thick and how hard (or soft) they are.
The plain red JAZZ III (without the grip) are amazing picks for jazz solo's and for mandolin playing. (The ones WITH the grip are too soft). The BLACK nylon JAZZ II (yes: 2) is also a very nice pick for mandolin playing.
What I saw in this test is that you compared apples with oranges. You should have taken more gauges of each or just equal gauges of different materials.1.3mm Primetone vs 0.60mm nylon just isn't a fair comparison. Btw, Bruce Welsh, rhythm guitarist of the Shadows uses .060mm nylon all the time, so it all depends on what you are planning to DO with your pick. Hank Marvin used Jazz III green Tortex 0.88mm.
Btw, very thin celluloid picks from China will also feel flimsy, sound thin and break easily. They smell like burnt ping-pong balls and can get you high as a kite if you sniff a bowl of them.
Two materials that I recommend for testing: acrylic (plexiglass) and acetate.
Dugain picks made of these two materials cost €5-€10.
brb gonna search the house and try to find my disappearing guitar picks
The laundry! Check the laundry! Haha
Gravity 1.5mm Acrylic picks are phenomenal. Try the Polished and the Unpolished.
Technical answer is "it depends" because I like a light nylon for a cedar topped Koa backed 12 fret, not a dreadnought.
I received a Gravity pick from JHS as a gift with my pedal purchase, and it's BY FAR my favorite pick. I have been searching for something similar from other brands, but nothing comes close
Without knowing the answer pick three sounded best to my ears. Now I'm watching the rest of the video to see what was what.
Personally I think that plectrums make a massive difference to sound and how you play
*Try Snarling Dogs Brain Picks... While they have a stupid and silly name, they have the absolute best grip that I have found from any manufacturer... Another bonus is that they're relatively inexpensive as well... I use the heaviest gauge that they offer, 1.14mm...*
Try the Primestone Standard Grips (not the smooth grip). I used Snarling Dogs for years and loved them until I found the Primestone Standard grips. I've never dropped one while playing and I love them.
@@crcox12 Will do... And thanks for the tip...
Meh, lets be honest. It doesn't matter what it sounds like. Many of us probably really the idea of playing guitar and the idea of picks that can change our sound to better. But really its about the finger and resistance comfort. Doesn't matter what the sound coming out is.
Personally, I love the thin nylon.
As an electric guitar player, I have really started trying out a plethora of different picks. Even going as far as making my own custom picks out various different materials like resin, acrylic, and carbon fiber.
What I've learned in the last year is that I like to warm up and practice lead with my custom, thicker picks based on the Dunlop Flow shape. But, when it's time to play, I always fall back to the black Tortex 1.14mm Jazz III. Thin enough to be super articulate, hard enough for fast downpicking or tremolo picking, and the tortex doesn't get too "chirpy" with high output pickups.
TUSQ makes an interesting sounding pick. Probably better for individually picked notes. But maybe not as ideal for strumming.
I hate the way that plastic picks sound.
Hardness is one factor of a material......Micro texture is another.... Sand a 1 mm nylon pick (for example... Nylon works better with thicker pics) with the right grit of sandpaper (we're talking fine to ultra fine sandpaper) to match your guitar, strings and playing style and it will be like you have a pic made of some completely different material. Microtexture alone will make totally dead pics much more lively.
Don’t complain about $25 picks! Blue Chips run $40-55.
The nylon Dunlop is the best by far...smooth, no sound of the pick hitting the strings....88mm
You can visibly see the yellow tortuga pick in the no.1 videos, yet you say it wasnt that one? Did you get them mixed up? Or just the video editing wrong?
I guess my ears aren't 'tuned' to hearing differences among pics. They basically sounded the same to me!. But I don't even use a pic. Your playing was very impressive. 😊
I typically use the yellow Tortex as well, for both electric and acoustic.
I enjoyed your video, but a pick shootout is a pointless endeavor for a multitude of reasons.
No two people hold the pick in the exact same position with exactly the same amount of squeeze pressure and the same vertical and horizontal pick angle and play with the same touch and attack digging in with the same depth.
Even the thickness of your fingers affects your tone.
In other words, two people playing with the exact same pick trading off the same guitar through the same amp with identical settings in the same room will sound different doing it.
So the pick you like has no bearing on what another person likes.
"You probably don't need to buy another guitar" - oh, I don't need this toxicity in my life and am I lucky my spouse didn't hear your blasphemous statements...
My "blindfold"choice was definitely the Gravity pick (no, REALLY!) Just my luck, my favourite is the most expensive!
What somebody else hears is only a fraction of what matters with a pick. It's how a pick interacts with your brain as your playing that matters. If a dried dog turd sounded great, it still wouldn't be an experience most players would enjoy. This thickness and flexibility not only effect tone, but how quickly the pick reacts when deflected by the string, which in turn effects the nanosecond response your brain has when playing, regardless of how it sounds. If $30 is what it takes to make the best connection between your picking hand and your brain, it's money well spent.
Dunlop nylon .88 max-grips for life! And I always have one with broken edge (take a sharp knife and chop up the edges) taped to the top of my amp when I need a pick with some serious attack
I can't be doing with nylon plectrums either. They just don't feel right.
Over the decades I have settled on different types: Big Stubby and Clayton in particular. Recently, though, I bought some cheap Alice brand picks and they are just fine.
Petrucci jazz III. probably my favorite affordable ones.
My experience is that Tortex is the best pick for electrics. Celluloid is best for acoustics.
You got the pick sequence wrong. No1 was the yellow one, and number 2 was the brown one so they are back to front. You can see the picks in your fingers.
I prefer V-Picks,Ed King model to be exact,works great.Somewhat expensive,but worth it too me.
Jeremy, stating that you hate a pick is not helpful in any way. I wouldn't use such floppy picks either, but my favorite picks are Dunlop nylon Jazz lll picks and they are about 1.14mm. I also use Ultex 1.14 and 2.0 mm picks. I considered expensive picks and will purchase some if there are none to try out conveniently.
Another suggestion: playing for a period of time on one pick doesn't adequately contrast the difference in picks. So, for example, strum with 1, 2, 3, etc.; single note runs with 1, 2, 3, and so forth.
The audio recording did not capture the differences all that clearly. Perhaps a good set of high-quality headphones would help me make the distinction though my speakers are good quality. The choice of recording microphone and placement also hindered the definition of pick differences.
I use a big stubby 2mm. It is the best pick I have ever used. Its thick! Tear drop shaped with sculpting for grip.
Put a dab of gorilla snot on there and rip it all night long.
So I use a custom made 6mm pick from Purple Plectrums. It is the only pick I use, I can’t recommend them enough
I’m not too choosy on picks, I have a new gravity 1.5 classic I’m trying to jive with. Honestly a Dunlop 1mm nylon sounds great on my J-45, but so do gator grips and ultex materials. All pretty close to 1-1.5mm. All subjective I guess
To be honest, my 60 year old ears couldn't hear a huge difference in most of them (using headphones)! I liked #1 and #4 the best...given the fact that you don't like nylon picks, it's a testimony to your abilities that you got such a good sound out of it.
what about horn or hoof picks,,, you’re only reviewing synthetics.....
Guys please what song was he playing at 13:04
“Dust in a baggy” by Billy Stings!
The Tortuga was the only pick to not make the strings have an extra buzz. I think it sounded the best.
Top of my ‘pick’ for sound was no.4 .... Would I pay $25 for a pick..? Probably not.
I'm in this video at the beginning and I don't like it. Thanks for doing something like this. I hate this random .60 nylon I got... somewhere. I'm not sure where XD Right now my favorite is this ebony jazz-style pick I got, and I only have one of them *risky* I do like Clayton picks a lot, though. They don't seem super popular.
Used fender tortex jim dunlop for a lot of rock n metal. Big stubby 2.0mm nowadays
best new picks EVER! the 3d pick from Anatomy of sound, with asses or boobs to hold them lol what else could you need? lol you will thank me latter. the white ones, heart attacks they are pointy and hard. great company. it plays so great for shredding omg!!
SHUT YOUR MOUTH, DON'T SAY I DON'T NEED ANOTHER GUITAR 😤😠. Now onto the pick game, I found a Primetone Jazz. 73 on the floor and man i am really liking it. I play pop punk and skate punk so there's a lot of raking, palm muting, and chugg-a chugging and that primetone with the angled edges works really well. Outside of that I was using the one with the rhino on it.
This needed to be same thickness throughout...every strum identical. Oh well.
I’ve been using those things that come on loaf’s of bread, there free have a hole for grip. Dave’s Killer Bread is my preference! 🤪 kidding of course but did use them as a poor kid way back.
I’m interested in knowing what the mic your using is, I’m looking for one & am a bit lost. That would make a great video, Single Mics for recording acoustic guitar & voice.
Jr Bondy Same, would love to see a video on mics!
Love Dave’s!
“You probably don’t need to buy another guitar” .....okay but does that new pick bring my guitar half a step down?? 🤦♂️
Thicker Dunlop nylons are nice IMHO, especially the max grips.
Dunlop tortex .5mm for me. $25 for a pick? That'll be the day.
Picks actually do make a difference on electric guitars! The shape of the end also makes a difference.