[tsp217]

in the guitar mags they say that they make ure guitar sound like 12 different instruments. I was just wondering if they really worked befor i buy a $13 dollar pick.
thx

[MakoMako]

I've never heard of 'em before, but quite frankly, I don't think I'd ever pay that much for a pick. All the picks I grab are either free from trade-offs and pick-ups with my friends (they do the same to me) or I get 4-6 for a dollar.

I wouldn't put the money on it, just because it SOUNDS nuts.

[simonlewis07]

I've never heard of 'em before, but quite frankly, I don't think I'd ever pay that much for a pick. All the picks I grab are either free from trade-offs and pick-ups with my friends (they do the same to me) or I get 4-6 for a dollar.

I wouldn't put the money on it, just because it SOUNDS nuts.

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[mantra]

I've heard that they don't live up to whatever they are hyped up to be.

[Will_Wood]

They sound all right.

[sixgunsound]

I asked a bloke at Long and McQuade a few months ago and he told me they were great for scratching your guitar, and that was about it.

[SmoothD]

Put your $13.00 into something more usefull! I got one for a Christmas present and the other day I tossed it into the garbage after the third tine broke off! The sound wasn't that great either! IMO.

[stuartmerenbloom]

Looks like an expensive version of a very old product that was out in the mid 60's. It was a plastic pick with 2 tines at the end that was advertised to sound like a 12 string. They did work if you kept your wrist at that angle all the time. $13.00??? no way!

[dadfad]

Looks like an expensive version of a very old product that was out in the mid 60's. It was a plastic pick with 2 tines at the end that was advertised to sound like a 12 string. They did work if you kept your wrist at that angle all the time. $13.00??? no way!

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Stu is referring to, in all probability, the Strum Rose © (although that had six picks/tines). I myself was ripped off on this one. As soon as each "pick" left a string to go on to the next string, the "pick" behind it muted that string the previous "pick" had just left. It made my guitar sound like it was being strummed (thunked) by a chunk of 2x4 pine. Use the money for another capo or a couple of packs of strings.

[stuartmerenbloom]

I am sure this one had only 2 and was plastic and worked pretty well if you kept your writst at the correct angel. I never heard of the 6 tined one....that'll never work

[stuartmerenbloom]

I am sure this one had only 2 and was plastic and worked pretty well if you kept your writst at the correct angel. I never heard of the 6 tined one....that'll never work

[dadfad]

I am sure this one had only 2 and was plastic and worked pretty well if you kept your writst at the correct angel. I never heard of the 6 tined one....that'll never work

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The "new and improved" model I got (like most "new and improved" things) with six (7) picks was pure crap. I tried every way, every angle, every direction, every everything... to give it a chance to work (or even suggest that it might be able to do something vaguely close to what it said it would do), but no luck... thunka-thunka-thunka... ! I can see how only two (if separated enough, and your wrist was perfect, and your stokes executed perfectly ( say... ohhh... plus or minus .00156" ) it could work. A little!

Yeah, PT Barnum was right, and I bought one!


Edit:

This is the only picture I could find. Apparently now (according to one advertisement) they have "improved" it even more! Seven picks!




Make your 6-string sound like a 12-string!

[tsp217]

thanx guys i was pretty sure of that, but the possibilitys of un needed scrathes that just dropped that right there especially on my new baby.




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[tsp217]

and i know there gonna get scratched and it already is i just dont want anything to act like im taking a knife to the finish u know

[imadique]

I got one for christmas also, and they are disappointing. However, to present an alternative argument:

- Most of the effects they're supposed to give you seem to be subtle movements (ie not strumming), so the jellifish never goes far from the strings. I fail to see how this can scratch your guitar unless you're doing something silly, like windmill strumming etc. I had no instances of contact with the guitar body.

- I may be stating the obvious here, but you are posting in acoustic discussion :
Absolutely useless for an acoustic guitar. You can get some results on an electric though.

- Of the 4 examples on the pack of "effects" you can get out of them, the only one that I managed to get that was convincing was a chorus sound, and even then it's quite limited because you can only strum downwards, gently. I couldn't get a violin bow sound (as suggested on the pack) that was even close to sounding right. I'm guessing you have to turn up with a lot of gain for that one, never got a chance to try it with the amp cranked.

- They are quite good for chunky riffing, they give a thick sound which is perfect for that. That's not really my thing though, so I got bored with the jellifish pretty quickly.

So yeah, they're not totally useless, and I'm sure someone can figure out clever things to do with them but they really don't do what the packet says. Definitely not worth your while if you want to use them on an acoustic.

[SmoothD]

I got one for christmas also, and they are disappointing. However, to present an alternative argument:

- Most of the effects they're supposed to give you  seem to be subtle movements (ie not strumming), so the jellifish never goes far from the strings. I fail to see how this can scratch your guitar unless you're doing something silly, like windmill strumming etc. I had no instances of contact with the guitar body.

- I may be stating the obvious here, but you are posting in acoustic discussion :
Absolutely useless for an acoustic guitar. You can get  some results on an electric though.

- Of the 4 examples on the pack of "effects" you can get out of them, the only one that I managed to get that was convincing was a chorus sound, and even then it's quite limited because you can only strum downwards, gently. I couldn't get a violin bow sound (as suggested on the pack) that was even close to sounding right. I'm guessing you have to turn up with a lot of gain for that one, never got a chance to try it with the amp cranked.

- They are quite good for chunky riffing, they give a thick sound which is perfect for that. That's not really my thing though, so I got bored with the jellifish pretty quickly.

So yeah, they're not totally useless, and I'm sure someone can figure out clever things to do with them but they really don't do what the packet says. Definitely not worth your while if you want to use them on an acoustic.

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I think that if you thrown one, really hard at a cork board, it might stick!
There, I've found one use for them!
And I disagree about not using them with an acoustic! Although I did not achieve a "violin" sound it did change the sound of the strings, just not in a pleasing way for me!