Plectrums that don’t chirp

longshins

I was laying down some tracks today and the lead sections have lots of ‘chirp’ on the attack. I use a red jazz III and was wondering what a good non rip off version might be that will get rid of the noise. I know technique adjustments help but in this case it was a particularly silly shreddy thing and there was no way round it.

brooom

The picks that lollar (that's right the pickup maker) sells are made from the same paper celulose material as the bottom of a vintage strat pickup. They are most excellent as a pick material,  no chirp.

danishbacon

I’m happy with Blue Chip

Kurtis

Nylon? 

Jetfire

In my experience, I found thick picks chirp. I went from 2mm ultex sharp to 0.88mm and the chirping stopped.  If the edge isn't bevelled or shaped, you don't get that kind of noise I found.

fretmeister

Hard plastic against roundwound strings = chirp.

Not sure it can be got rid of completely unless you want flatwounds.

StuartMac290

Blue Chips don't chirp. Or wear out, for that matter.

crunchman

StuartMac290 said:

Blue Chips don't chirp. Or wear out, for that matter.

Expensive if you lose them though.

ToneControl

I switched to 3mm stubby in the 80s or 90s, to slow me down and get more control
I recently decided that on the metal patches, they make quite a bit of noise, so I have switched to using normal picks for that.
So far just cheap ones that just about bend

Danielsguitars

I was trying thicker picks recently and stopped because I hated the chirp, I'm now back on ultex .73 and I'll stick with these, I'm now trying to improve my terrible picking 

digitalscream

I use brass or wooden picks, for exactly this reason. Thin brass picks don't chirp, and they last a lot longer than even the hardest (ebony or lignum vitae) wooden ones.

digitalkettle

crunchman said:

StuartMac290 said:

Blue Chips don't chirp. Or wear out, for that matter.

Expensive if you lose them though.

You lose 50p plectrums…you don’t lose £30 plectrums

TeleMaster

That's so weird, I was just trying to EQ out my chirps on something today, with little success. 

digitalscream

digitalkettle said:

crunchman said:

StuartMac290 said:

Blue Chips don't chirp. Or wear out, for that matter.

Expensive if you lose them though.

You lose 50p plectrums…you don’t lose £30 plectrums

As it happens, that's a great side-effect of the brass picks I use - you can hear them when they hit the floor. Wife bought me five of them three years ago, and I've still got all five.

nero1701

I generally don't lose them, I also find that after you've used them for a while and you loose the sharp angle on them, they become a bit quieter

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ToneControl

btw do any of you intentionally use the edge of the pick to select higher harmonics whilst doing an OD solo?
I used to do that a lot

timmypix

longshins said:

I was laying down some tracks today and the lead sections have lots of ‘chirp’ on the attack. I use a red jazz III and was wondering what a good non rip off version might be that will get rid of the noise. I know technique adjustments help but in this case it was a particularly silly shreddy thing and there was no way round it.

I find the black ones chirp less - can't remember which is which material but I have noticed the red ones sound different. So that could be a starting point for familiar feel and then go from there?

goldtop

I don't mind it sometimes, but it can get a bit OTT:

mgaw

Blue chip for the win

nacnudnai

I've recently moved to thin picks (0.50 and 0.60mm small teardrop tortex) from about 12 years of almost exclusive use of Jazz IIIs. One thing I noticed almost immediately was the significant lack of chirp on the high strings. Low strings do the "cello" thing that Paul Gilbert talks about 

Stevepage

I’d recommend the Dunlop H3 picks. Same shape as the Jazz III but made of Tortex. Never had an issue with pick chirp with those