In the modern age I stumbled on some guy on YouTube doing a review of an frightful guitar pick. It was big in size and was 1 cm thick!!! Unbelievable, who would even think about playing with such a monster. The guy meant that after just playing some weeks with this pick the right hand technique would really improve. The pick was the Insanity pick from V-Pick. After looking at several other YouTube-videos reviewing the V-Picks which came in many different sizes and thicknesses i got really curious. The reviews mentioned that the V-picks was made of a special glass material that reacted with the heat of the fingers and thus stayed firmly between the fingers without twisting. That alone sounded really good since I sometimes had really big problems with twisting picks. They also talked about a much more distinct sound that with regular picks. So I had to try it out. I bought a set of different picks and to my surprise they were right. They stayed in place between the fingers much better than any other picks I have tried and the they also produced a louder pick sound. I ended up using the Dimension V-pick as a standard pick for all my guitar playing for years. It is about 4 mm thick so I though playing funky rhythm stuff would be hard, but to my surprise it was not at all.
The only thing that was disturbing was that playing without distortion produced a clicking sound that I did not like. Since I do not play that much without distortion I lived with that problem. I tried normal Dunlop picks every now and then and now I really did not like the feel of them.
I read on internet that someone compared V-Picks with Gravity Picks and he thought that the Gravity Picks was almost the same as V-Picks, with the difference that the Gravity Picks did not create the clicking sound. I bought a couple of different picks to try them out. The clicking was not there, but they did not stick to the fingers as good as the V-picks. After playing a while they did, but not in the beginning of playing sessions so that was not really a problem. I have now used Gravity Picks for about a year. I tend to change between a 4 mm and a 3 mm thick pick.
I saw that John Petrucci had discoverd the power of the thicker pic and released a signature pick with Dunlop. It is a special version of the Flow Picks from Dunlop. I ordered a set of John's picks (2 mm) and also a thicker Flow Pick (3 mm) since 2 mm sounded really thin with my standards ;-)
The Petrucci pick was really too thin for me and it was too slippery. I cannot play with it at all.
But the Dunlop Flow 3.00 pick was really amazing. The grip was just amazing. The logo is 3D and that makes the grip really good. It has no clicking either. This pick became my default just after playing 10 minutes with it. Let's see if I still have the same opinion after a year.
