Bass guitar picks, fat or thin?

Hi there,


I know folk will say something about the attack & resulting tone of a heavy pick being more desirable and such like, for electric six string and bass alike I think.



I play a Fender American Special Jazz Bass, been using a 1.14 mm pick and 73mm for my bad ol’ U. S. of A. Tele. Just tried the 73mm on the bass and I really like it, especially strumming bass binary chords mid-neck and down at the 12th fret and beyond with open ringing strings, it’s easier to strum too.



The thin 73mm pick seems to give a wider more expansive sound? Weaker you’ll say?



The thick 1.14 pick seems to have more body, rounder maybe?



What might be missing wiv the thin pick could be added in the DAW, only if needed though?



Are the implications of this already known?



I suppose you’re gonna say a weaker, perhaps less defined signal with the thin ‘un, considering wot I’m trying to achieve I’m figuring it don’t matter?



I noticed it first when I was playing, strumming through Boss flanger into Auto Wah so I thought it might be cos of that, so I recorded two quick DRY bass riffs to cassette tape, I kinda prefer the thin pick, something about it I can’t quite pin down.



Not just strumming I should mention, the above a b test was a simple standard basic rock riff one string at a time at 5th fret.



I don’t ‘ear all the freaking freq’s but I ‘ear enough to detect a desirable change & experience helps a lot in these matters.



I ask cos I’m trying to ‘synth-up’ elements of my bass sound.



Also, when playing bass through those same pedals, I back off the bridge pick to a quarter to 12, with neck on full and those pedals seem to ‘hug’ the string tone more, wider or more expansive, softer perhaps?



In fact for now, I leave it with the bridge at a quarter to for the basic dry tone as I prefer that?



When I add Boss Turbo distortion between the above two pedals, it’s the reverse, I back off same amount for neck and have bridge on full, anything in that?










I didn't find the right solution from the internet.

References:

www.soundonsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=58544&p=526363&hilit=

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