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Post by bellyshere on Apr 8, 2024 14:08:42 GMT
It’s hideous. Dave’s squarish one was nice though.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 17:21:30 GMT
We’ve opened a can here. Basic cables against slightly better have a difference yes. Paying £2000 for speaker cables and you need your lid looking at. Hifi heads are worse than guitar tone heads. To be fair, I didn't realise £2000 cables even exist, I suppose I must be thinking about the slightly better ones. There’s ones even more than that.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 13:22:01 GMT
I smell snake oil, like fancy speaker wire making your hifi sound better. They are excellent picks, made from a very expensive material, whether they are worth it to you is a personal matter. I prefer a heavy Wegen pick or a caesin pick, but I do have a Blue Chip and would never use a cheap pick now. Doc Watson and Norman Blake probably used tortoise shell picks which are now unavailable. Also, as you mention it, hi quality speaker cables and headphone cables do make a huge difference to sound quality. I think perhaps you are having a bad day. 😀 We’ve opened a can here. Basic cables against slightly better have a difference yes. Paying £2000 for speaker cables and you need your lid looking at. Hifi heads are worse than guitar tone heads.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 12:33:22 GMT
Ah that wouldn’t be me then. How come Norman Blake and Doc Watson were such great flatpickers without a £50 pick then? Norman Blake liked to use tortoise shell picks which were readily available at that time, nowadays buying a vintage tortoiseshell pick would cost you far more than a Bluechip if you could even find one for sale. Most of the new expensive picks are man-made versions of tortoise shell. I have a couple of the faux-tortoise Papa's Picks. I'm no great player but there is a noticeable warmer, richer difference in the tone when using one of the Papa's picks over my usual Ultex or Brain picks. I much prefer using the Papa's picks but rarely take them out of the house because I couldn't afford to replace them if lost. I just can’t hear a slightest difference. They might feel better to hold or use but I doubt most people could hear a difference against a cheap pick. Maybe I’m just on one today. Somebody was on about rubbing oil on your strings to make them sound better earlier as well and I got a bit triggered about the picks as well.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 11:19:23 GMT
Over in the bluegrass / flat-picking world a lot of very good players swear by them. I suspect you have to be of a pretty good standard to be able to benefit from what these picks offer (although I've no idea what that is). Ah that wouldn’t be me then. How come Norman Blake and Doc Watson were such great flatpickers without a £50 pick then?
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 10:46:16 GMT
There was a thread on here a while back and, IIRC, some of our esteemed colleagues were tempted, and were going to report back. I wonder if Blue Chip do a thumb-pick? Although, at the rate I get through thumb-picks (they become loose, and thus no good) I wouldn't want to pay more than a pound or so for a pick. :-) When I used to use picks I’d always lose them. Just watched a few videos about them. I’m not having it.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 10:43:03 GMT
If you put Blue Chip into the search facility there'll likely be a few threads on these and similar premium priced picks - I'm sure I remember a few folk having experience of them. keith I smell snake oil, like fancy speaker wire making your hifi sound better.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 10:34:16 GMT
They were probably Blue Chip picks? That’s the ones.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 27, 2024 7:54:12 GMT
So I saw on another forum people banging on about £50 plus guitar picks and how it makes your tone next level. Can’t remember the particular brand. Surely this is utter nonsense? Thoughts?
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 12, 2024 22:52:17 GMT
Congrats on the new Tele, and v best wishes on the health front. Have just this evening been discussing with Glyn how shitty it is getting old - you aren't alone Sean. We found that whisky and songs helped a lot this evening - hope your fab looking bacon mac and cheese worked the same way for you. Keith Yeah man. Mac N Cheese and guitars helped.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 12, 2024 21:08:09 GMT
Can't beat a Telecaster! Hope all is improving on the health front. I only got the cherry one recently and despite having shed loads of guitar over the years have never had a telecaster. Health still crap. They can’t find out what’s up with me. Getting old is shit.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 12, 2024 20:34:58 GMT
And a bacon Mac n Cheese to go with it.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 12, 2024 20:30:34 GMT
I’ve been I’ll recently and had more scans than I’d care for. Thought I’d cheer myself up with a new telecaster to go with the cherry one.
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Post by bellyshere on Mar 4, 2024 19:23:22 GMT
What a lovely idea. However, I can’t say I am that happy about the Liverpool thing being a Burnley fan. )0:
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Post by bellyshere on Feb 28, 2024 18:30:37 GMT
I’ll stick with the one I’ve had 40 years.
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