Altitudes guitar tone
Jason Becker · Jason Becker
Perpetual Burn (1988)
80s neo-classical shred lead
The rig Jason Becker used
Researched from interviews, production write-ups and gear histories — not guessed.
Guitar
Moridira Hurricane LTD
Amplifier
Marshall JCM800 2203 100W
Cabinet
Marshall 1960B 4x12 with Celestion G12T-75s
Microphone
Shure SM57
Signal chain
The order the original sound was built in. The exact settings get dialled for your own amp or modeller when you generate the tone.
Get this tone on your rig
Pick your amp or modeller and we’ll build Altitudes for it — with a preset file you can load, not a list of knob positions.
Why we think this is right
Jason Becker has explicitly stated in multiple interviews that for the Perpetual Burn album, he used his blue Moridira Hurricane LTD guitar equipped with a Seymour Duncan JB humbucker, plugged into a Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive, running into a 100-watt Marshall JCM800 head. Studio tracking at Prairie Sun Recording utilized standard studio rack processors like the Lexicon PCM 70 and Roland SDE-3000 for spatial delays and plate reverbs.
Sources
- Jason Becker official gear retrospective interviews
- Guitar Player Magazine archive features on Perpetual Burn
- Prairie Sun Recording Studio production logs and producer Steve Fontano interviews