Description

Epiphone Vivian Campbell “Holy Diver” Les Paul Black Aged Gloss marks the first collaboration between the legendary Dio guitarist, Vivian Campbell, and Epiphone. The instrument is a loving recreation of the Gibson™ Les Paul™ Vivian played on Dio’s classic albums “Holy Diver” and “The Last in Line.” Featuring a mahogany body with a maple cap, DiMarzio® X2N open-coil humbuckers, brass nut, and EpiLite™ case. Available for a limited time.

DiMarzio X2N
The X2N® is a “take-no-prisoners, in-your-face” humbucker. Twin, wide-bar pole pieces give the X2N® a nasty, dangerous look — and rightly so. Our highest gain pickup was created to push tube amps into total overdrive. Put one in the bridge position for a powerful jolt to the voltage the amp sees from your guitar. The result is a sound that can only be described as blistering. The magnetic field of the X2N® is very powerful and focused. It captures the character of whichever guitar it’s in. If your guitar is warm sounding, the X2N® will act like a sledgehammer. A bright-sounding guitar will go into total scream mode. And the X2N® still has versatility: single-coil and series-parallel modes are particularly effective, because the X2N® pickup’s power gives these sounds more authority than is possible with weaker humbuckers.

VIVIAN CAMPBELL
Vivian Campbell is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as a member of Dio, and has been a member of Def Leppard since 1992 (replacing Steve Clark after his death). Campbell has also worked with Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, Sweet Savage, Trinity, Riverdogs, and Shadow King. In 2005 Campbell released a solo album which features cover versions of his favourite blues tunes and one original blues song.

ABOUT EPIPHONE:
Epiphone is one of American’s oldest and most revered instrument makers. Since 1873, Epiphone has made instruments for every style of popular music and celebrated its 140th anniversary in 2013. The story of Epiphone begins in the mountains of Greece and threads its way to Turkey, across the Atlantic to the immigrant gateway of Ellis Island, and into the nightclubs, recording studios, and coast-to-coast radio broadcasts of Manhattan in the 1920s and 30s. www.epiphone.com