When I try to play in the style of Al Di Meola and use a pinky heel anchor, my picking motion always ends up being USX, and I can’t seem to get it to work as DSX.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
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Troy talked to Andy Wood about this. He doesn’t palm mute on his pinky heel. It’s more like the area between his pinky and thumb heels. Whether or not Al does this I don’t know but Andy’s way works.
Hard to say without a video but it could be because your using deviation and picking down into the string more towards the body but instead, you need to follow the wrist path and pick more across the strings 
Troy talks about it here:
Yes, you need to anchor on the thumb side instead of the pinky side.
That’s not true:
I struggle with this too. I dont know if my motions are correct in the first place though. Waiting for my first technique review. :))