[Superman]

Soft picks are for acoustic guitar where the strings are much stiffer. Something has to give, and with acoustic guitar, that is the pick. For many players anyway.

As near as I can remember, I have never played in a band with an electric guitarist who did not use a stiff pick. At least a medium. Those strings are so thin as to be nearly nonexistent. Everybody seems to prefer the super slinkys.

Stomachmonkey....it might very well take a skilled guitarist more than a week to really nail the timing nuances of Comfortably Numb. Many of those notes are just x milliseconds ahead of the beat or behind it. And even then, he's not going to sound like David Gilmour. And....Gilmour still sounds like Gilmour whenever he plays. Live. Studio. Acoustic. Electric.

I would be fun to watch Clapton and Gilmour try to emulate one another. For them, it would likely be hysterical. THEY will tell you then cannot do it.