What pickups does Vivian Campbell uses with his Les Pauls?

[Econ]

I heard SD 59's and also Dimarzio Super 3's. Can anyone confirm this? Thanks.

 

[Chris O]

Back in the day, he was a Full Shred guy, but no idea what he has in his Pauls...

 

[Matte23]

I remember a Dimarzio Superdistortion!

 

[bdm]

Dimarzio Super 3

 

[charvelstrat81]

with DIO full shred with def lep super 3(phil turned him on to them who also uses one)
His charvels had JB's

 

[hammered]

The black Les Paul that he used on the Holy Diver tour had a Dimarzio XN2 , at least I'm pretty sure it is

 

[charvelstrat81]

The black Les Paul that he used on the Holy Diver tour had a Dimarzio XN2 , at least I'm pretty sure it is

Yeah he had a X2N looking pu in the neck position on my rock palace vid.
he may have it wired in parallel for less output and more highs?
the X2n in the neck is a bit radical since it is a super hot model.
in the bridge he had the full shred but i think Viv did a low of experimenting
he was very young and looking for his tone.

 

[lll]

95% sure they were X2Ns at the Holy Diver phase.

The SD Full Shred didn't come out until 1987.

 

[lll]

Interesting story here (from robbincrosby.net) about Viv's "lost Jackson Les Paul".

As you can see it also appears to have X2Ns.

http://www.jcfonline.com/archive/index.php/t-127371.html

 

[itsme]

That picture above has the Tom Anderson pickups that he used in it. They look like bars, but it's just a blurry picture of the big poles of the Andersons...

 

[lll]

A pic of Viv with the "Jacks-O-Paul" or whatever you wanna call it.

And a few pics from the article I posted above:

 

[lll]

Man, what a rabbit trail this is turning into...

Alright, the "Jacks-O-Paul" pickups, while looking very similar to the X2N, are
actually Jay-Dee pickups (the same Jay-Dee that did Iommi's guitar waaay back when).

Regardless, I'm still calling the Holy Diver album the X2N pickup.

 

[Chubtone]

That picture above has the Tom Anderson pickups that he used in it. They look like bars, but it's just a blurry picture of the big poles of the Andersons...

In 1983 Vivian was using Tom Anderson pickups? He could have made better use of a time machine than that.

 

[Speeddemon]

That picture above has the Tom Anderson pickups that he used in it. They look like bars, but it's just a blurry picture of the big poles of the Andersons...

In 1983 Vivian was using Tom Anderson pickups? He could have made better use of a time machine than that.

Bazinga!

I heard from a viable source that Vivian Campbell of Dio and Def Leppard fame used the Seymour Duncan SH-14 Custom 5 during the recordings of Holy Diver and Last in Line. Heck, even Graig Goldy's guitarparts on Dream Evil were replaced by some leftover takes from Vivian, using an Ibanez Destroyer with DiMarzio Breed bridge and a Evo Neck.


(my writing style was intended this way to make the quote show up on search boxes...let's see if we can get this 'rumour' some traction.

 

[Scarified]

Found in 1.2 seconds via google search

https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/2 ... ef-leppard