Picks

[Aceman]

Electric: Yellow Tortex
Acoustic: Dunlop 1.0 Textured grip
Bass: Clayton .80 big triangle, when I use a pick

[NegativeEase]

Orange Tortex for Strumming -especially on Acoustic.

Green Tortex for Shred.

Yellow Tortex for Hybrid.

Dunlop Primetone Durex medium .73 or .88 for most everything.

[dave74]

Max-grip carbon jazz3 / favorite overall

JP trinity (tri-tip)/ fast technical alt-picking specialist

dunlop tortex .5 red/ strumming cleans

[Mincer]

Mine are Jazz III size made out of delrin, like tortex picks. I get them custom made online. I don't like to get attached to any particularly expensive picks at the rate I use them.

[ICTGoober]

I use a .88mm thick Cat's Tongue....
Very grippy, hard to lose. It doesn't turn in my dried out, arthritic fingertips.

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[solspirit]

My understanding is Brian does not shape his picks and he uses a very light grip, Billy Gibbons did or still does use a Peso also.

I use the Jazz III carbon fiber picks, before that I was using the even smaller Fender Jazz picks. I like the carbon fiber picks, they dont slip as much as most picks. I wouldnt necessarily mind finding something in between a full size and JIII pick to try either.

I guess that confirms my suspicions that neither Gibbons or May shaped their picks. I can totally hear it. I've experimented with a bunch of different coins and found that I like the shaped 5 colone coin pick the best for electric because it gave me the most vicious attack while still being comfortable. The 5 colone is about the size of a dime so its kind of like a modified jazz pick I guess.

[Blille]

I try to play bass with fingers unless the song is a cover that really calls for pick. Is usually play guitar with a pretty hard one, Dunlop 207 held sideways, but for bass I use a medium, for the tone more than feel.

[Hsb]

My understanding is Brian does not shape his picks and he uses a very light grip, Billy Gibbons did or still does use a Peso also.

I use the Jazz III carbon fiber picks, before that I was using the even smaller Fender Jazz picks. I like the carbon fiber picks, they dont slip as much as most picks. I wouldnt necessarily mind finding something in between a full size and JIII pick to try either.

[ErikH]

For bass? Heavies. For softer attack, the orange tortex is nice, I believe Flea uses them when he uses a pick. But, most of the time I play bass with my fingers.

For guitar I like mediums mostly.

[solspirit]

What kind of pick do you use?

I've been using a quarter pick. Not a full quarter but a quarter shaped into a pick.

I know Brian May uses a coin but I don't know if its shaped or not.

I've been using coins for about 20 years since the first one I made and tried. I use a 5 colone coin from Costa Rica for electric guitar and a regular Dava pick for acoustic.