One of my favorites (and you can tell by the fingerprints), Darkglass gives you a branded Dunlop Tortex Darkglass bass pick in the box with their preamps:
I sold my Microtubes X but kept the pick 
(If I still used hardware effects I would still have the Microtubes X too, it was awesome)
My two bugaboos were; having sex with old ladies for money, and bear traps. Now I’ve added using a pick. Damn, just cannot get the hang of it.
Did you ever try combining the two?
I shudder at the thought
Yeah that’s exactly the type of gimmick pick I would avoid - $78 lmao
picks vanish. don’t spend a mint on one
Reminds me of this video. Except for the pick made of ice (which shattered) and the LED pick, they all pretty much sounded the same.
Some of the mandolin picks, felt or leather, have a different sound, especially when angled; the rest are much of a muchness as far as sound I agree
I haven’t gotten to truly learning to use a pick yet. I’ve tried a couple times, but get frustrated partway through a song and go back to fingers.
But, another piece of advice I saw somewhere (might have been here) is to try learning with songs you are already super familiar and comfortable with. That way you can concentrate on the pick aspect without having to think too much about what your fretting hand is doing.
“Now where’s that bulldog with the loose tooth?”
These max-grip picks are great! The .73 is my go-to for guitar. By far the best “grippy” pick I’ve used.
Ironically, the tagua nut picks that I spent a relative mint on (not super expensive, but definitely a premium to, say, a Tortex) I’ve managed to keep for years. And play awesome!
I havent tried felt bass picks yet, but I do have a set of the rubber ones mentioned earlier in the thread. It’s great to have as an option. There’s a Clash song I play that it’s perfect for, though I’m obstinant and play it finger style. It probably sounds better with the pick. Use whatever works!
I hate playing with a pick but one of the songs in our set list needs it.
My guess is that the answer to everything technique related is… practice.
Tried thicker and thinner picks. Ended up here 
It is different, not easier. Some techniques are easier (chugging fast 1/8ths for punk, playing multiple strings), a lot are harder.
It’s a different skill that you learn separately. Chances are, you’re comparing your skill with a pick to where your skill finger style is NOW.
How much time have you put into practicing with a pick? When you’d had that much time practicing finger style, how good were you at THAT?
If you’re on Module 5 with a pick, compare yourself to when you were there playing finger style. Not to how good you are having finished the course and put in a couple hundred more hours of practice beyond.
I really like the Flow. They have a nice “clicky” or “tic-tacky” sound to them that lends a percussive element that is really nice for a lot of styles.
I’m not sure about that. It didn’t feel as hard to learn to play finger-style. When I have a pick on my right hand, the left hand suddenly forgets what to do. Songs I know so well become so difficult to follow. It is as if as the left hand were connected to the right, and the pick messes with my left hand’s skills too. Maybe it is not the same for everyone. I’m trying to learn, but it is incredibly frustrating.
I will continue trying, but at the same time it feels like I would progress so much faster in becoming a better bassist if I continued to practice plucking with my fingers, because so much time is going into trying to play with a pick and going nowhere.
You mean… like early on when trying to learn alternating plucking, and how things would get thrown off when you’d try to fret with your index finger while plucking with your middle and your brain would have none of that?
Pick playing takes time to learn. It takes active concentration while you’re learning. That means you will not be able to pay attention to your left hand. You’ve gotten used to your right hand working on auto-pilot and focusing on your left hand.
Keep practicing with a pick. It will build valuable skills that will make you a stronger player finger style in the long run.
After getting competent with a pick, slap became a LOT easier. Also learning palm muting, and even being able to apply that to fingers (which is tougher).
Palm muting and pick is now my favorite bass tone. Not right in ever situation, but soooo satisfying when it is.
This makes a lot of sense, really. My right hand seems to do it all without my active attention. Playing with a pick is not as simple as I expected it to be.
Thanks. It sounds like it might be very rewarding in the long run.
My biggest challenging when I play with a pick is spatial awareness. Fingerstyle, I know where the string is because my thumb is rooted on the pick-up or on a string, so I don’t have to think about the string I am about to pluck. I know exactly where everything is spatially because of my rooted thumb. With a pick, I feel like I am just floating out there unrooted and I need to get more comfortable where the string I am about to pluck is located. Maybe I need to root my wrist or forearm somewhere. And i have to learn how to mute with the pick hand in a different way. Once you start playing with a pick, you realize how much muting you’re doing with your plucking hand. I have been rehearsing an easy Kinks song (All Day and All the Night) with a pick at School of Rock, but now that we have a live show coming up, I started playing fingerstyle again on that one so it is one less thing to stress about for my first full live show.
I get that. I can do ok with a pick on a song where there’s not a lot of string crossing, but once there is it falls apart. Obviously if I practiced it more that would improve.
