Techpicks
NEXT TO GUITAR strings, the type of pick you use is your most fundamental choice as a guitarist. You can mull over the materials, shapes and sizes of the myriad picks that are available, but in the end, it’s all about which one best matches your “feel.” Knowing this hasn’t stopped me from discovering a variety of recently developed picks that aim to improve tone, control and articulation. Case in point: Techpicks is an Italian company made up of musicians and music fans who also happen to be material engineers with backgrounds in thermoplastics. Lately, they’ve been burning up social media with their advanced picks, which seemingly fuse materials used in the aerospace, sports and textile industries. Techpicks stand out because they have a different material makeup that’s tangibly perceived in stiffness and how each pick details nuances of attack, tonal response, low pick noise and dynamics.