about picks, and mostly V-Picks
Last year, I started a new quest for the perfect pick. Or something like this. With my first batch, the winners were a mix of Dunlop Jazz III and Dunlop Ultex Sharp. With the second batch, the winners were (surprise) the Dunlop Ultex Jazz III, which combined the size and form factor of the Jazz III, with the robustness of the Ultex, and (even more suprisingly, somehow), the Planet Waves Black Ice. But soon the latter lost its crown, because I only had medium gauge picks of this kind while I, not long after that, got ride of “light” (9-42) strings in favor of regular (10-46) on (almost) all my instruments, and those picks were a bit too thin with this setting.
So, I recently had the opportunity to get heavy gauge Black Ice picks and I thought they would be the clear winners, except for one thing: V-Picks.
So, I heard of the V-Picks on a few blogs, and every now and then I used to see videos on youtube relating the V-Picks experience. And the way I see it, most of those were kind of, no offense, cheesy. I mean, that’s just a pick, right? Add to that the fact that they are quite expensive (you can get 1 V-Pick for the price of 6-12 picks from almost any other company). But I wanted to give them a try (and I couldn’t find any Red bear to try). So I got myself a small pointed V-Pick. And damned, I don’t know if there’s some kind of placebo effect going, but it’s really that amazing. I won’t say that the sound or the grip is better, but it really helps and brings an easier (alternate) picking experience.
Now, time will tell if they’re also strong enough to warrant buying one against a dozen from the competition.