The Stonewall Pickups Alternate Dimension line comes from a different version of earth where tone is the primary focus in pickup construction, instead of aesthetics or making something different just to be different. The concept, in its most basic form, is to get the most amount of tone out of the pickup routs in our guitars. Most of these pickups don’t use traditional pickup covers: the bobbins a
re made the same size as traditional covers which allows me to wind an extra 1/8” into the coils. Wider coils means wider aperture (length of vibrating string sensed by the coil) which means bigger tone. In lieu of traditional pickup covers, I’m making tops out of pickguard material for custom aesthetics. Some Alternate Dimension pickups have multiple magnets or polepiece screws per string. This helps to open up the core of the coil to widen the aperture but also makes the pickup more responsive. All of these pickups sound better than the traditional construction versions we’ve been using since the 1950s. If you had the option to make your instrument more responsive and sound fuller, with better clarity, string-to-string definition, and dynamics, wouldn’t you want that?? Welcome to the Alternate Dimension.
