Re: Dunlop Jazz III pick imprssions
I used orange tortex for years and bought a ton of them so I could put about 20 in every case.. Then, I discovered jazz IIIs.. So, used the reds for last couple of years till I found the new carbon fiber ones.. Those have such a killer grip, I LOVE em!!!
Sweetwater is the only place Ive found that carries em
Was waiting for the best Jazz III Dunlop make to be mentionned.
The maxgrip series was a revelation to me - all that stuff that Mick Thomson mentions in the development of the carbon fiber one is spot on.
I moved from the standard black jazz 3 to the carbon fiber maxgrip - oh my.
On a practical level - the pick literally sticks to your fingers- you would have to sweat an obscene amount to cause it to slide aorund.
The grip means you exert less effort holding the pick, so for fast downtuned metal a la Fear factory, despised icon, some slipknot stuff, whitechapel etc, where you're playing at over 190bpm - you don't fatigue your wrist as much.
Also - so hard wearing - they last about 3-4 longer than a nylon jazz 3 does, more than justifying the slightly raised price.
Then finally the tone - what the carbon fiber material has over the nylon used in the red and black jazz 3s is perfect for guitars tuned to C or lower - the treble detail is amazing - playing thick strings under high gain and low tunings can often accentuate how a pick makes the strings sound.
I realized that nylon's attack was too slow - swallowed up a lot more of the string's initial vibration.
Carbon fiber solved all of that - you get pure string sound - no treble loss
The attack sounds almost instant - when blasting out those dino cazares style machine gun riffs, you can hear every note without feeling like those PM'd triplets are bleeding into each other because of the slow attack that, imo. nylon, tortex, ultex and delrin all have, when compared to carbon fiber.
Carbon Fibre max grips are the bottom line for fast downtuned modern metal -end of.
Like him/slipknot or not, Mick Thomson is a tone freak and the fact that he road tested and approved these picks says a lot.
If you want to put these to the test, buy this pick alongside some tortex, ultex and nylon jazz 3s, play the same riff with the different picks and you will hear the superiority of Carbon fiber for the type of riffing i mentionned earlier.
