Thanks jazzyvee! I consider myself 50% pick/50% fingers, though I have actually started practicing slapping again too.
I tend to attack the strings with a fair amount of force - to me, that's part of the sound (or my sound at least). In the video I think I am using my wood pick made by "Timber Tones" - it's pretty thick but has a beveled end, and is surprisingly resistant to round wounds. Actually, when I was visiting Alembic I took 3 picks - my wooden one, a Telefunken graphite, and a "regular" one (delrin?) - Mica also had a couple of cool ones - we could definitely hear differences! The graphite one was a bit thinner, and the wood one was my favorite, though not that different than the "normal" one.
I think the Alembic filter offers a lot of opportunities with pick playing - I had a negative comment on Facebook where they said "wow that fret buzz" (I deleted the video) - but to me, that's a sound in the room that you wouldn't hear on a recording or live. I wonder if that might be part of what you're hearing?
