How do you get rid of pick attack

[capdoogie]

So I get some pick attack/squeak noise on some presets. Is there any way to get rid of this? Using normal nylon Dunlop picks. Les Paul guitar.

[GlennDeLaune]

Don't get rid of too much of that. You can use a parametric EQ and use the highest band and back it down a bit. That should take that sound out if you don't like it.

[amsdenj]

Try using a compressor with a very fast attack.

 

But try different picks too. Thicker picks with rounder points will provide warmer, darker tones and more control. Thin sharp picks are very bright and floppy. I never use them. I really like V picks.

 

The key to good guitar tone starts and ends with things that touch the air - your fingers, string, picks and pickups on the source end, and the speaker, cabinet and mic on the destination end. If these aren't right, there's not a lot you can do between them to recover.

[capdoogie]

Yeah I use 1.0 dunlops round side edge. Just get a squeak here and there and wasn't sure if there was something I was missing in getting rid of that high pitch attack pick noise.

[capdoogie]

My bad, after hours of agony with the pick squeak noise I found my neck pickup micro phonic. All is good except I have yo get a new pickup.

[amsdenj]

If you have nothing to loose, take the pickup out of the guitar, remove the cover and coat the windings with wax. That might fix the pickup. I've done this in the past with good success.

[fukuri]

You can send it away to be done but I have a few guitars so I bought a cheap heated Waz melting pot used for beauty treatments

A glass thermometer and a mixture of 80%paraffin wax to 20 % beeswax

Heat to 150 drop the pick up in and jiggle to get the air out

Leave for ten minutes then remove and wipe down with kitchen paper

Jobs a good un and re-useable

[efunkelist]

Waxing might help BUT if you have to negotiate about guitar-related investments with someone you share your household with, you might concider using this flaw of the pickup for reasoning buying NEW PICKUPS! ;)

[jdbunda]

I just got a Helix LT, and ran into this issue with one of my guitars, which caused me to look here.   I have a mix of the usual Fenders and Gibsons, and was pretty happy with the sounds I was getting until I plugged in my Fender Lead III, and I hear this horrible pop-pop pick attack noise.    I mean really obnoxious.   I knew it wasn't my pick or technique, because my other guitars all sound just fine with no pick pops.  A fast-attack compressor as suggested above sounded like a good idea, but it didn't do the trick - the pops were quieter, but definitely still there.    I fooled with the amp tone settings and the Helix global EQ, but getting rid of the pop required killing way too much of the good stuff.   Which told me maybe I needed to deal with the issue earlier in the signal chain.

 

I noticed that by turning down the volume knob of the guitar down to 6-7, I was able to get an acceptable pop-free signal, which clued me that maybe the guitar output was simply too high or too bright.  The guitar tone control didn't help nearly as much, and had other side effects.   But, I found that by inserting a Low-High Cut EQ as the first block in my signal chain, I was able to effectively get rid of the pops before they were picked up by my downstream effects.   What worked best with my Lead III was a high-cut at 9kHz and -10db on the level.    I can now turn the guitar volume pot to 10 with no pops.    It does reduce the signal volume, but that's easy to deal with in other ways downstream that don't color the tone.