Golden Gate MP-14 Deluxe Tortoise Style Flat Pick Pick - Sideman - Dozen

I've played rythum acoustic for 50 years and gone thru almost every brand of pick. Saying that, I can swear by Golden Gate. I like the "stiff" model, for it's sound enhancement and size for my hand. Highly recommend.

Good quality, approximately1.3 mm thick thought it might be about 1.5 mm still produces a good quality tone overall a nice woody thick tone

Would purchase again

Bought for a friend who uses these on a silent guitar. He loves the stiffer smooth performance. Gives a great sound. Slides off the strings effortlessly. More folks should try these out on regular guitars.

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I have used all sorts of picks in the year or so that I have been playing the mandolin, some of which cost a fortune and some of which are dirt cheap. And right now, this is the pick that is creating the sound I love. I am lucky enough to have a Gibson F-9 so it sounds good more or less whatever I do, but this pick really brings out its deep, warm tones, and my mandolin teacher, who has a Gibson F-5 says this pick seems to have opened up the sweet spot on his mandolin. Also I have noticed that this pick helps the mandolin warm up very quickly. However, as my instructor showed me, you need to experiment with slight changes of angle on the unwound strings to get the warmth and volume. He taught me to pick a string while changing the angle forward to back until I get the sound I want.So because things like this are personal, these are my thoughts on other nice picks I have:V-Pick Tremelo: light, really fast and a great beginner's pick. It creates a light, bright sound and is great for learning tremolo as the name suggests. I am still trying to develop my tremolo, but I do feel the V-Pick Tremelo has helped. It has also helped me play faster. Comparatively the Golden Gate pick is louder, stronger, bolder and warmer but not as fast or as sweet in the unwound strings.Wegen TF 120: the pick I started on. It is easy to hold, solid and a good all rounder - the V-Pick Tremelo is not as good on the wound strings but much better on the unwound strings and the Golden Gate is richer on both.BlueChip TAD 1R 50: yes, I splashed out a fortune on the cream of picks, and guess what, I prefer my Golden Gate at the moment! The BlueChip is fast and strong and a good all rounder but doesn't have the woodiness or warmth of the Golden Gate and the sound just isn't as rich for what I am doing (intermediate bluegrass). Maybe if I had been playing longer I would feel differently, and I am not going to give up on the BlueChip, but right now it is sitting at the back of my pick box.

Right off the bat, let me say that these are very well-made picks and that they helped me significantly improve my mandolin technique.Now, if you want to read on, I'll give you more details. First, I started playing mandolin over 40 years ago. Back then, there was no internet of course, and as a kid in suburban NJ, I knew of no one else who played mandolin so my only sources of information were Mel Bay chord books and Oak Publication collections of fiddle tunes. Since I played guitar, I just naturally used guitar picks for mandolin with no thought as to whether they were the best choice or not. People thought I played pretty well, but after a few years I dropped mandolin to concentrate on my guitar work.Fast forward 30 years and I decided to get back into the mandolin. After going through a few cheapo models, I finally bought myself a Godin A8 which I like very much. And again, I used guitar picks for my mando work as well.However, in the meantime, this wonderful thing called the internet had come along and suddenly I had all kinds of new info about mandolins, and specifically, mandolin picks. Lo and behold, I learned that what I liked in a guitar pick was exactly the opposite of what most good mando players looked for in a pick. I use Dunlop tortex .88 picks for playing electric guitar and regularly replace them as they grow rounded. But I read that a good mando pick is thick and very rounded. This facilitates rapid tremelo picking.So I looked around and found you can spend a lot more for a single "good" mando pick than what I pay for a dozen guitar picks. Then I came across these picks and, while they cost more than guitar picks, they seemed pretty reasonable, so I bought them.Right off the bat I noticed that it was much easier to tremelo pick on demand, and the rounded tips did not prohibit me from accurately hitting single notes. And after a month or so of playing pretty much daily, I see no discernable wear on the first pick, so I'm guessing this dozen picks are gonna last me a long time.Bottomline: if you're learning to play mandolin AND you're using a guitar pick THEN immediately throw away that guitar pick and treat yourself to a dozen of these picks. Like me, you'll be glad you did.

I watched "Belltower Lesson 11 - Picking" on YouTube before buying this pick and was intrigued by the possibilities (no financial interest). It was worth it. The complaints against the pick are probably due to improper technique, as I found it to be almost an ideal jazz guitar pick, capable of considerable speed and beautiful tone. Advice: hold it loosely and incline the forward edge (toward the tuners) slightly upward about 15 degrees, George Benson-style, to make it work. Don't dig in while playing. Stay on the surface of the strings and keep the dynamic range in reserve. When doing scale passages you will encounter almost zero resistance, as long as you grip it lightly. Don't worry --- it will stay in place. I am not familiar with the material, but it sounds and looks like natural tortoise shell and has a "sticky" feel in spite of its glassy smoothness. There is almost zero string noise. It is extremely strong and will last a long time. You can incline the rear edge of the pick slightly more downward on downstrokes to reduce the traveling distance to the next string. Incline it slightly upward for an upstroke. Makes it easy to do economy picking. It is NOT a shredder's pick. If you want a hornlike, Wes Montgomery sound, go for it. Give yourself a little time to adjust and watch the Belltower video. I'm pretty sure you'll like it.

There is nothing to dislike about these picks . They are fantastic. Highly recommend

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Ben fatti, molto spessi e stondati, molto scorrevoli sulle corde e ottimi per il tremolo. Ma lasciano un suono mediano, tagliando completamente le sonorità acute...ho fatto il reso perché non adatti allo staccato, ma solo al tremolo...

J'ai repris la mandoline il y a deux mois, après un abandon de nombreuses années suite au vol de ma mandoline de l'époque.Je me suis procuré une Eastman qui a un son très correct que je compte bien encore améliorer avec mes réglages et surtout ma maîtrise de l'instrument, je l'utilise surtout en folk celtique et jusqu'à présent j'ai utilisé les médiators de ma guitares, principalement un Tortex .88 mais je bloque un peu sur la vitesse d'exécution et le son ne me convient pas totalement, et comme j'aime bien accélérer un max (trop ?) je me sens un peu frustré."On" m'a affirmé que ce médiator Goldengate comblerait mes besoins, alors j'ai tenté le coup. Immédiatement il apparait que le son est plus riche et que le clinquant de l'attaque du médiator est oubliée, et en bonus la puissance émise gagne en puissance - Mais question vitesse, au départ c'est plutôt la cata, les triolets ne passent pas avec une bonne définition et si je m'excite un peu des notes disparaissent, semblant être oubliées - Comme des meilleurs que moi semblent trouver ce médiator à leur goût et affirment même qu'il facilite un jeu rapide je me suis obstiné. Et de fait il "suffit" de trouver la "bonne" orientation pour le médiator pour que ça change tout ! Cela m'a pris une journée pour trouver le "truc", mais ça valait la peine. Ceux qui comme moi utilisaient des médiators de guitare devront donc faire un effort pour s'habituer à l'épaisseur de 1,3 mm, à la rigidité et au bord arrondi pour déterminer si ce médiator leur convient.Finalement je trouve que c'est un bon médiator pour la mandoline, il faut juste s'y habituer pour profiter de ses qualités - essayez le, vous risquez seulement de ne pas être déçu …

Great for tone /ideal pick