I have been trying to use metal fingerpicks on six-strings for several months now but the clickiness is really annoying, especially when using extra gain stages like an overdrive or wah. I have a parametric EQ and a stereo graphic EQ on my rack, but the click is quite a "global" phenomenon, throughout the whole frequency range. Since I don't have a problem with this on my (George L humbucking-equipped) pedal steel even through the exact same rig, I have started wondering - could the extreme high power of the steel pickups contribute to the relative lack of clickiness? It is a signal-to-noise issue, after all.
Are old, low-output Sho-Buds clickier than modern humbucking-equipped steels by nature, for example? The six-string electric guitarists who I know of that use fingerpicks, like Robbie Robertson, sound pretty darn clicky to me too.
(There is supposedly a thriving beauty-salon sideline in Nashville installing mutant plastic nails on the right hand only of session guitarists?)[This message was edited by David Mason on 02 October 2006 at 05:26 AM.]
