Dolphinado
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About a year ago I started experimenting with some of Dunlop's new Flow picks, made from Ultex, and landed on their ridiculous 4.20mm jumbo picks as my go-to pick for everything. Up until trying those out, I used to use 4mm Gravity Razer picks almost exclusively, but I wanted to find a replacement for them because even though they feel and sound great, guitar strings shred them into acrylic dust surprisingly easily.
Since switching to the Dunlop Flow picks, I haven't been super satisfied with my guitar tone, no matter what amp models I used or how I tweaked them. I thought it must've been me being bad at dialing in tones on the amp models, or that my guitar has a weird midrange response, or my cables, and that was why other folks' presets that sounded great with their guitars sounded really off with mine. But it never occurred to me that it might've been my change in picks.
Anyway, fast forward to the other day - I found one of my old Gravity Razer picks, and on a whim decided to use it, playing on an FM3 preset I thought I knew really well. It was a night and day difference - everything I hated about my guitar tone, the weird, dull high-end roll off, the midrange honk, the boomy bass, was suddenly balanced. I touched no parameters in the preset - the only thing I changed was my pick. My PRS CE 24 Semi-Hollow finally sounded like what it was - a bright, but balanced, percussive guitar with great sustain. It finally sounded alive. I just never realized how much this fat, dead pick was sucking my tone.
Since switching to the Dunlop Flow picks, I haven't been super satisfied with my guitar tone, no matter what amp models I used or how I tweaked them. I thought it must've been me being bad at dialing in tones on the amp models, or that my guitar has a weird midrange response, or my cables, and that was why other folks' presets that sounded great with their guitars sounded really off with mine. But it never occurred to me that it might've been my change in picks.
Anyway, fast forward to the other day - I found one of my old Gravity Razer picks, and on a whim decided to use it, playing on an FM3 preset I thought I knew really well. It was a night and day difference - everything I hated about my guitar tone, the weird, dull high-end roll off, the midrange honk, the boomy bass, was suddenly balanced. I touched no parameters in the preset - the only thing I changed was my pick. My PRS CE 24 Semi-Hollow finally sounded like what it was - a bright, but balanced, percussive guitar with great sustain. It finally sounded alive. I just never realized how much this fat, dead pick was sucking my tone.