What pickup was Vivian Campbell using here? (Dio era)

[Reee]

I think the full shred was not developed yet at that time, and it doesn't look like an invader pickup (normal polepieces).

I also heard he used duncan distortions and dimarzio super distortions back then, but in the video it sounds more like a low output pickup, it has a lot of clarity and detail that you can't really get from high output pickups. (and it can't be a super distortion cause the polepieces look flat, unlike the dimarzio SD which has the sunken in polepieces)


curious what he used back then, killer tone!

 

[Masta' C]

Re: What pickup was Vivian Campbell using here? (Dio era)

sounds more like a low output pickup, it has a lot of clarity and detail that you can't really get from high output pickups. (and it can't be a super distortion cause the polepieces look flat, unlike the dimarzio SD which has the sunken in polepieces)

You seem to be making a lot of assumptions here.

First, 90% of that sound is the amp, not the pickups.

Second, they probably ARE high output pickups. Around that time, he was using pickups like the Super Distortion, X2N, and SD Invaders.

 

[uOpt]

Re: What pickup was Vivian Campbell using here? (Dio era)

My memory says he used a Duncan Distortion around that time.

Would fit sound and looks here, it can have good clarity, especially in a tremolo block guitar. In any case, it'll probably get the job done of reproducing this sound given the right after-pickups chain.