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Perfect position holding the pick. It is like I hold too. Imagine, instead of squeezing the pick to hold it, try and touch the pick with as little skin as possible touching the pick. Imagine only one square mm of skin on both your index and thumb touching the pick. It is more but the mental exercise is that. It forces you to jettison absolutely all of your tension…you cant touch it that lightly and make sound if you have tension. I think @Skyman911 makes an excellent point about too much digging in with the tip. The stiffer pick does not allow for that. It flips out of your fingers. The thin pick bend forgivingly but give you that sound. The sound of the thin pick is not softer but rather it is more forgiving causing what you described as the chain saw on metal post sound. (love that BTW : ) ) I know exactly what you mean too. To get rid of that effect, less tip contact. To produce that sweet sound with a thin pick you ultimately give way to some of the volume the guitar is capable of producing or use amplification were volume can be controlled with electronics. Speaking of the chainsaw…there is a cool effect where you intentionally use that thin pick to get the snaredrum sound, kinda?