JOHN PETRUCCI PRIMETONE® 1.38mm 💎+ Guitar Pick 518R

👨‍🎤 JOHN PETRUCCI PRIMETONE® Guitar Picks 🎸 Jim Dunlop® Plectrum 518R

This pick’s custom bevel is based on the edge of John Petrucci’s own well-worn pick. It’ll glide off your strings like glass with a loud, bold sound thanks to its super durable Ultex material. The Jazz III tip provides precision and clarity, while the custom grip ensures ultimate control.

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Model: JOHN PETRUCCI PRIMETONE®.
Manufacturer SKU: 518-JPBK; 518-JPRD.
Description: This pick’s custom bevel is based on the edge of John Petrucci’s own well-worn pick. It’ll glide off your strings like glass with a loud, bold sound thanks to its super durable Ultex material. The Jazz III tip provides precision and clarity, while the custom grip ensures ultimate control.
Colour & Gauge: ⚫ 1.38mm (Black); 🔴 1.38mm (Red).
Material: Ultex®.
Quantity: 3 Genuine Jim Dunlop Picks.
Manufactured: United States of America (USA).
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The John Petrucci Primetone^® Jazz III Pick is a whole new take on one of our most popular pick designs: the Jazz III. As the man himself describes it, “this pick’s custom bevel is based on the edge of one of my own well-worn picks. It’ll glide off your strings like glass with a loud, bold sound thanks to its super durable Ultex^® material. The Jazz III tip provides precision and clarity, while the custom grip ensures ultimate control.” John’s new pick comes in two colors: tried-and-true Black and the new and appropriately badass Oxblood.

In order to to get this pick right, we had to build on John’s preferred shape and material. “I’ve always found the original black nylon Dunlop Jazz III size and shape to be perfect for getting the most clarity and articulation out of my playing,” John says. “That’s why it was important to me that we began with that proven design when creating my second signature Dunlop pick. Several years ago, I discovered that picks made from Ultex had a louder sound, a smoother attack, and a greater level of stiffness than a nylon pick, as well as a more precise pick response.”

Unique Bevel

Armed with John’s preferences, we started out by making him a black version of our Ultex Jazz III pick, but John wanted to check out our newly released Primetone Jazz III. Primetone Sculpted Plectra feature bevels sculpted onto the pick’s tip for increased speed and accuracy when playing fast rhythms and solos. We sent him some samples, and he immediately fell in love. But we wanted to take that a step further for John. We asked him to wear out a pick while on tour so that we could copy that natural bevel onto his new pick.

THIS UNIQUE BEVEL IS A RESULT OF MY FORWARD AND DOWNWARD ANGLED PICKING TECHNIQUE AND REALLY ADDS TO AN EFFORTLESS PICKING EXPERIENCE WITH NO DRAG FELT ON THE STRINGS.

It ain’t easy holding onto one pick through all the moving between hotels and venues and playing onstage for a whole tour. But John pulled it off. He used a single pick for four weeks. This provided us with exactly what we needed to make him the perfect customized pick. “This unique bevel,” he says, “is a result of my forward and downward angled picking technique and really adds to an effortless picking experience with no drag felt on the strings.”

The custom bevel is a bit steeper than that of the standard Primetone Jazz III pick. But the result is even greater speed and precision. Shredders usually hold their pick at a steeper angle in order to reduce drag as much as possible. The steeper the angle, the less drag you experience. But too much angle can trip you up, and it takes years of experience to find the right balance. Thankfully, John did all that work for us.

The next issue was the grip. John tried a variety of types, from Max Grip and Primetone to the standard raised lettering found on the Ultex Jazz III picks. After some experimentation, John felt most comfortable with the raised lettering. He feels that it’s the perfect balance between having a solid grip while being able to move the pick around if needed.

John Petrucci Primetone Jazz III Picks are available now. Go get yourself a pack. Shred on.

Sourced From: https://www.jimdunlop.com/artists/john-petrucci/

John Petrucci is a prog rock legend, renowned for his tonal taste and mastery of his guitar’s fretboard.

A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, John would go on to co-found band Dream Theater. John served as the band’s guitarist, producer, main lyricist and also backing vocalist. His side projects include the Liquid Tension Experiment with Tony Levin, and he’s a veteran of Joe Satriani’s prestigious G3 tours along with Steve Vai, Eric Johnson and Paul Gilbert.

John is a long-time Dunlop artist, and in recent years, he’s collaborated with us to design picks and a Cry Baby^® Wah for his trademark sound and playing style.

“To me the guitar pick has always been its own instrument. It’s vital to the tone, accuracy, and musical standards I strive for when I play. My signature Dunlop picks are the only ones out there that tackle and conquer all three of those elements with ease.”

John told us that he’s been using Cry Baby Wahs for as long as he can remember. “I’ve tried many different wahs over the years, all of them Dunlop Cry Baby Wahs,” he says. “It was the 535Q that really got me fine-tuning and honing my Cry Baby sound. But because of the types of venues we play, I try to put any front end pedals in the rig & then manage them onstage with a controller. That way, the audio signal only travels a short distance.

That’s how I got turned on to the Cry Baby Rack Wah. It has so many options, and that allowed me to dial in the same sound I was getting with the 535Q. For my signature wah, we designed it to have the same boost level, the same tonality, the same sweep as I use with my rack wah, right out of the box. It sounds huge and badass like an angry, screaming monster with the ultimate expressive range.”