Dava Picks, anyone use 'em?

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Recently an aquaintance of mine was over for a late night jam and he went on and on about this pick and then i set up my rig to get his opinion on it and he ended up forgetting one of these dava picks and i've been playing with it and i have to say it's been the most comfortable/playable pick i've ever used.
I almost want to believe my aquaintance when he said his technique was shit before these picks because i feel mine has stepped up since playing with it...
 
I've never heard of the Dava picks.

Lately I've become very fond of Dunlop Jazz III picks, particularly the EJ version which is a bit less slippery.
 
I tried them when they first came out. I really didn't like them - they felt gimmicky to me, and all of the supposed "benefits" seemed like more trouble than it was worth.

For those unfamiliar with the design, the idea is they're a pretty "heavy" pick (I forget, probably in the 2.0mm range), but the middle of the pick, halfway up the point, gets quite a bit thinner, up to maybe Fender medium territory. So, their marketing spin is, it's like having multiple picks in one - you can hold it near the base and have it respond like a thinner pick, or choke up and have it respond like a heavier pick.

In practice, it works quite a bit less well - constantly choking up on or releasing the pick is sort of a hassle of you're trying to play fairly fast lines, and my personal experience was that the tonal change wasn't really there - most of the difference in sound between a thin pick or a thick pick, for me, really seems to come from the point, where most of the pick's "flex" occurs.
 
haven't tried those, but I swore by Jazz III's for years until I discovered V-Picks. Now I have trouble playing with anything else-- they feel flimsy by comparison. I use "screamers", "medium rounded" and "psychos"
 
MatchBookNotes said:
they have multiple designs and i don't think the one i'm using matches your description but i think its their jazzgrip one. http://www.davapick.com/
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Ahh, weird. I was thinking of the Control picks, which I was seriously underimpressed by.

I guess my next question would be, have you spent much time playing with "jazz" sized picks, previously? They're pretty much all I've used for about the last, geez, maybe 8 years...? I remember having a similar reaction when I first switched - the sharper point and smaller shape seemed to help my control.

I've been using Dunlop Tortex "pure black" or "black gold" or some such name picks for the few years - they're like regular Tortex picks, just black, and thus cooler. :D I go back and forth between the guages that are normally red and green.
 
I gotta agree with Drew about the Dava Control picks. I had a couple and the solid color versions were better than the later dual color versions which just seemed flimsy to me.

I've never really found a "gimmick" pick I like. The Star picks (picks with a star hole in the middle) felt really weird. Like using a bread bag fastener. My fav's are Fender Red Clears Heavy and Fender White Logo Extra Heavy for bass.
 
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