Maybe I am completely tone deaf, however in my experience I’ve noticed that once you lay on the gain/distortion the pick material and thickness doesn’t make much of a difference in tone. It’s more about how the pick feels on the strings and in your hand.
With a very clean sound I can hear the difference between thicknesses and materials without a problem. However, once you turn on a fair bit of distortion or especially fuzz it’s all out the window unless you’re flipping through extremes but I don’t hear a difference really with those settings between let’s say a Tortex or celluloid of the same gauge with distortion or fuzz. Add more effects and it’s worse still.
Acoustic is a completely different animal.
With a very clean sound I can hear the difference between thicknesses and materials without a problem. However, once you turn on a fair bit of distortion or especially fuzz it’s all out the window unless you’re flipping through extremes but I don’t hear a difference really with those settings between let’s say a Tortex or celluloid of the same gauge with distortion or fuzz. Add more effects and it’s worse still.
Acoustic is a completely different animal.
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