Wayne Sermon's Effects Pedals

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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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In this second photo of Wayne Sermon's other pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, the Vibrato sits just above the Superego.

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Wayne Sermon uses the Aion Refractor Professional Overdrive, as detailed in the Aion Electronics Build Reports. Kevin, the owner of Aion Electronics, custom-built this overdrive pedal for him, inspired by the Klon Centaur design.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In this second photo of Wayne Sermon's other pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, the Sampson Hightop pedal sits directly at the center of his board.

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In this last photo of Wayne Sermon's third pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, he has an multi-effects pedal made by Eventide on the bottom-right corner.

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In this photo of Wayne Sermon's live board, taken from the article of the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, he has three expression pedals by Mission Engineering at the bottom-right side.

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In this Instagram photo of Wayne Sermon, some of his pedals can be seen. Amongst them is the Electro-Harmonix Bass MicroSynth Effects Pedal.

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"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

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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.

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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.

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In this second photo of Wayne Sermon's other pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, the Ego Compressor sits just above the Hightop pedal.

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In this second photo of Wayne Sermon's other pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, the Superego lies on the bottom-left corner.

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"The second drawer houses everything that’s routed before the volume pedal. It includes an Electro-Harmonix POG 2, Voodoo Lab Micro Vibe, J. Rockett Mark Sampson Hightop, Wampler Ego Compressor, Electro-Harmonix Superego Synth Engine, and a Malekko Vibrato (which is in the effects loop of the Superego). All of the effects are run through a RJM Mini Effects Gizmo and powered by another Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus."

-Premier Guitar; Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons

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In this last photo of Wayne Sermon's third pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, Wayne uses a Pedal Power Digital to power the effects on this board.

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In this last photo of Wayne Sermon's third pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, a Whammy pedal is seen at the bottom-left corner.

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In this last photo of Wayne Sermon's third pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, a Programmable EQ sits at the top-left corner.

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In this photo of Wayne Sermon's live board, taken from the article of the Rig Rundown with Imagine Dragons, a Boss TU-3 sits at the top of the board.

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Wayne says: "They put a Z.Vex Fuzz Factory inside the guitar."

I'm also sat with his guitar tech right now and he confirmed this and if you listen to the last album you can hear this pedal in some of the tracks if you know how it sounds. (According to Shane).

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In a photo of Wayne Sermon's rig from a Melbourne show, the Pete Cornish SS-3 v1 is prominently featured as the "Pedal du Jour."

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In the Tape Notes Podcast at 24:12, Wayne Sermon says that he used the Marshall ShredMaster Pedal for the guitar solo in the song 'Dull Knives'.

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In this interview, Wayne Sermon mentions the use of Analog Man Sun Face for the guitar solo in "Dull Knives".

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