Wegen Big City Question

Jazzaferri

I take it you are withdrawing your remark that I wasted my money.

I certainly think that a pick will not alter my note choice but my blue chip does sound different from any other I use.

To me it's similar to my choice of sax mouthpiece. Helps me get the sound I want.

DragonPL

Sure I know I wasted some $$ on pick experimentation. One other alternative is modifying picks oneself. I've done that to the Dunlop Primetone (sending the edges) and they're pretty much like a Wegan.

Buco

You could argue the money I spent on picks is waisted.
Until I got the blue chip SR60.
That's the best $40 I spent on a guitar accessory.
I found picks that are 90% as good as the blue chip for 10th of a price, like these water buffalo horn ones I got from eBay, but I'm still glad I have the blue chip and wouldn't return it or sell it if offered. If lost I'd get another one.

I'm the same player with any pick.

To my ear it sounds better, that's all, and it makes it more enjoyable to pick up the guitar.

Maybe the best compliment I got in this style is when the guy told me I have a good tone when I said my playing sucked after a jam.
He said : "you developed a good tone, there are people playing their whole life without ever finding a good tone". I credit the blue chip for at least a fraction of that.

It's all from person to person.

DragonPL

I feel the same way about the Jazz lll (red)

jonpowl

I alternate between a Wegen 3.5 Gypsyjazz pick and a Dunlop Primetone 3.0 round tip. Of course I am a total amateur, but I notice the Wegen is louder for lead and rhythm, the round tip Primetone may be faster for picking and both offer nice tone. Dunlop Gator 2.0 picks recommended by @Wimm in a previous post didn't work for me as I have grown accustomed to the sculpted ease of gripping for both the Wegen and Primetone picks. I do like the Gators whenever I pick up the Les Paul or Tele.

Chiefbigeasy

And so we continue with the great pick conversations!

Seriously, ever since I got my new guitar I've had to rethink my pick again because, although I'd settled on the 1.4 Big City pick while playing my Altamira M10D, the same pick sounds different on my new petit bouche style guitar. So, now I'm back and forth between the Big City and the 3mm or 1.5 mm Wegen Gypsy Jazz. My understanding, by the way, is that they are the same material. However, the 1.5mm sounds different from the 3mm Gypsy Jazz Wegen. My next experiment will be the 2.2mm Big City in an attempt to warm the sound a bit on the petit bouche.

As to the slippery pick problem, I've found an interesting solution. Check out Amazon or Google "Monster Grips." For $10, you get 12 little 3/4" circles of plastic stick-ons with a pebble-grip surface on the finger side. They are very thin and you forget they are on the pick. You can put them on one or both sides (l like them on both). This has pretty much solved my slippery pick problem forever.

Jehu

Interesting solution, Chief. It's not a slippery pick problem in general, just with the Wegen material. The Wegen isn't really my Holy Grail Pick, so I think I'd prefer to just use something else rather than find ways to fit round pegs into square holes.

Chiefbigeasy

Just sayin--those little Monster Grips work well on any pick on which I've applied them with, importantly, no change in tone.

pickitjohn

@Chiefbigeasy

Hope your enjoying your New Guitar.
Have you tried the Violin Rosin Dust?
A little scrape with a file to the Rosin then get the dust on your thumb and index finger.
Cheap and works Great.
It's been posted here often.
:peace:

Chiefbigeasy

Yeah, Pickitjohn, having big fun with my new axe, but I really have to rethink the whole string and pick thing again. The Altamira and the giant D hole have a much different sound than the petit bouche of the Alves the Puga. The Bosset 11's that I put on when I got it sounded much better than the Argentine 10's that it came with. I'm about to experiment with the Fisoma Silk and steels that I have lying around.

As to my slippery pick solution, I really do stand by the Monster Grips that I've attached to every pick that I have experimented with. I really don't have to think about it anymore; the pick just stays between my fingers. It's amazing!