Wayne Sermon

In this photo of Wayne Sermon playing with Imagine Dragons at SXSW music festival in 2012, he's wielding a Fender Big Block 66 Jazzmaster in 3-tone sunburst. The block inlays on the neck give it away as this particular model. The pickguard looks to have been swapped out for a Gold Anodized Jazzmaster Pickguard.

In this Instagram picture, you can see Wayne Sermon using the submitted item, but ith Block Inlays and in another finish.

In this Instagram picture, you can see Wayne Sermon using the submitted item.

In this video of Imagine Dragons performing "Stand By Me" in a tribute to Ben E. King, Wayne Sermon is seen using a Gibson L-5 with a double cutaway, which can be clearly seen throughout most of the video, especially during the solo starting at 2:10

"Wayne Sermon plays several different BiLT guitars throughout the set. These offset beauties are highly customized with features Sermon specifically needs to create certain sounds from ID albums. His No. 1 is a gold-plated Volaré loaded with a pair of Lindy Fralin Twangmaster humbuckers. Each guitar is strung up with Elixir .011–.052 strings and Sermon uses Dunlop 88 mm 50th Anniversary Gold nylon picks."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

For the acoustic tunes, Sermon grabs either his Gibson J-35 or Gibson LG-2 American Eagle (shown here), both flattops have LR Baggs M1 pickups. The LG-2 is kept in standard tuning and used on “Trouble,” “Thief,” and “Release,” while the J-35 is tuned a half-step down and is featured on the bridge to “I Bet My Life.”

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

For the acoustic tunes, Sermon grabs either his Gibson J-35 or Gibson LG-2 American Eagle (shown here), both flattops have LR Baggs M1 pickups. The LG-2 is kept in standard tuning and used on “Trouble,” “Thief,” and “Release,” while the J-35 is tuned a half-step down and is featured on the bridge to “I Bet My Life.”

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

Wayne uses this guitar live on the song I'm so sorry.

At 1:19 in the video you can see Wayne playing a black Fender Strat.

He used a golden version of this guitar at Glastonbury in 2014. It can be seen best at 2:32 and 2:55.

In this Facebook photo posted by Matchless Amplifiers, Wayne Sermon can be seen using a Matchless 30/15 Combo Amp (Night Vision Tour 2013).

From a photo on Matchless Amplifiers' Facebook page: "Wayne Sermon of Imagine Dragons, Night Vision Tour 2013. 30/15 and a Chieftain."

The Matchless Amplifiers Facebook page points out that Wayne is posing next to his "Gold #spitfire heads with #ess cabs" right before his show. The photo was posted September 2013.

"The backline for Sermon’s chimey brand of pop-rock is full of classic British tones. His wet/dry/wet setup revolves around a quartet of vintage Vox AC30 amps—two from ’64, a ’66, and a ’67."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

"Along with the vintage Voxes, Sermon runs an angry Friedman Smallbox 50. "

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

"Friedman Smallbox 50 is plugged into a 65 Amps 2x12 Whiskey cabinet."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

A blog article explains how Wayne Sermon uses a custom built Centaur pedal:

"It’s a long story as to how I got hooked up with Imagine Dragons, but last year I got the opportunity to build a custom Centaur clone for their guitarist, Wayne Sermon. He was putting together a new live rig from the ground up and wanted to include a Centaur, but didn’t want to give up the pedalboard real estate for his original unit. I designed a PCB that would fit into a 1590B-sized enclosure and then built the pedal with an almost antique-looking distressed finish. "

"After I built the first one, he tested it against his real Centaur. He couldn’t hear any difference between them, and this one is about 1/3 the size, so the real Centaur got the boot. He then asked for another one for his secondary rig. So he actually has two of these now."

The original blog article can be found here.

In this Instagram photo of Wayne Sermon, some of his pedals can be seen. Amongst them is the Malekko B:Assmaster Distortion Pedal.

In this article, the builder says that Wayne is using an Aion Compressor. There's a photo (used as the source) of the pedalboard taken in December 2013 during a rehearsal which shows the Aion Compressor along the top row.

Also, in the video for "Radioactive" on SNL (February 2014), you can see a good top shot of the pedalboard at around 2:38 where the light-up knobs are pretty clear.

Lastly, in this Premier Guitar interview from March 2015, there's a list of gear used which includes the Aion Compressor as well.

"Sermon’s BiLT Relevator is finished in shoreline gold and features both an MXR Carbon Copy and BiLT’s own fuzz circuit built into the body along with a Sustainiac in the neck position. Sermon can control the parameters of the effects via a wealth of buttons, switches, and controls that are accessible on the front of the guitar. There’s a Pedaltrain Volto on his strap that supplies power to the pedals via the stereo cable. He keeps this guitar tuned a half-step down from standard."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

"Sermon’s BiLT Relevator is finished in shoreline gold and features both an MXR Carbon Copy and BiLT’s own fuzz circuit built into the body along with a Sustainiac in the neck position."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

As such, it should be understood that it is built into his guitar, not on his pedal board.

In this photo of Wayne Sermon's pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown of Imagine Dragons, a Pedal Power 2 Plus powers his board.

In this photo of Wayne Sermon's pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown of Imagine Dragons, a Timmy overdrive pedal sits on the top-left corner.

In this photo of Wayne Sermon's pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown of Imagine Dragons, A noise suppressor by ISP is seen on the bottom-left corner.

In this photo of Wayne Sermon's pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown of Imagine Dragons, the King of Tone overdrive sits to the right of the noise reduction pedal.

In this second photo of Wayne Sermon's other pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, a Micro Vibe by Voodoo Lab sits on the far right side of the board.

In this second photo of Wayne Sermon's other pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, a POG2 sits below the Micro Vibe.