Premier Guitar | 9 years ago
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Premier Guitar hung with guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, and tech Shane Johnson of Imagine Dragons before their sold-out show at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Sermon showed off a bevy of golden guitars and vintage Vox amps while McKee gets down with Lulls, Sadowskys, and a custom Stambaugh.
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.
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.
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