Gerlt Technologies makes hundreds of customizable rack effects, at prices comparable to guitar pedals.  It's time to dump that pedal board and get Your Tone off the floor!

 

 What We Do

You know them as guitar pedals

We build them as rack effect modules you can customize to get Your Tone

Put several rack effect modules into a 3U rack enclosure

Connect power and audio on the back like guitar pedals, adding connections for remote switching

Add a remote footswitch unit to turn rack effects on and off

Add as many rack effect modules, enclosures, and third-party products as you like. Plug in your guitar and amp. Rock it! It's that simple.

 

Quick Hits:

  • Check out our GT Effects Overview to see why we do this

  • Check out our Compares To charts to see the full list of effects we offer

  • Follow the menus from Products, to Modules, to Modules By Type to get a list of our effect types.  Select any effect type to get a list of all our effects of that type.  Select any effect to get full information including pricing.

 

 

Hello Effects Fans!

Today the message is unpleasant.  After figuring how to deal with some of our government’s policy decisions for the past several years, I must finally admit defeat.  It is not feasible to continue operations with the latest round of policy changes.  As recently as a few days ago, I thought it might work out.  Then I was hit with business-ending tariff charges, with more to come.  To be clear, it isn’t just these new Trump tariffs that have beaten me.  Biden-era tariff changes and policies were also difficult to survive.  The cumulative effect is too much.  

As an entrepreneur I take calculated and managed risks.  Sometimes it works out, and sometimes I seem to be shooting at my own feet.  But I can’t survive an economic nuking from my own government.  It’s not just a political disagreement, or differing opinions, theories, or expectations.  It’s a matter of undisputed facts, real dollars.  Gerlt Technologies’ “Game Over” criteria were met this week as those facts became crystal-clear.  I don’t like politics and refuse to take part in it, so I’ll just leave it at that.

Gerlt Technologies will no longer take new orders for our effects.  We do still have our popular 3U Pedal Racks available until our inventory is depleted.  New tariffs on metals will make them too expensive to restock, so get ‘em while we’ve got ‘em!  I have a handful of new modules that I’ll be completing soon.  I’ll still announce them when they are finished, just ‘cause.  We were already contemplating thinning out some of our guitars, amps, pedals, and maybe some components and other gear that have somehow quietly filled up all our available space over the past several years.  We may add some listings for those on the site or perhaps on Reverb in the coming months.  Keep an eye on us if you are interested in some lightly used gear in great condition.  I expect and plan this shutdown to be permanent, but maybe I’ll pop up and take a look around in a couple of years if enough major changes take place in government policy after the mid-term elections.   

It has been a lot of fun!  I enjoyed meeting thousands of you along the way – always the best part of any adventure.  Thank you all, and all the best to you and yours!

Bill Gerlt

President, Gerlt Technologies

26 August, 2025

 

New Footswitch Option: Buddy Board

Published: 25 November 2018 25 November 2018

 

Buddy Board and power port

 

Buddy Board with wah and tuner pedals

 

Buddy Board and Korg Pitchblack Pro rack tuner

 

We are happy to announce a couple of new options based on feedback from gigging players.  While it is nice to be able to use rack tuners, looking for your rack tuner off stage or somewhere behind you might not always be the best option.  You may prefer to have your tuner right up front with you so you can keep your attention focused on your fans!  To that end, we are announcing the availability of an auxiliary 9V DC power jack on our 12-Button Footswitch.  It is not intended to provide enough power for a bunch of pedals, but it does provide enough power for most tuners.  It will also power most wah pedals, along with your tuner.  Since tuners and wah pedals tend to be near the beginning of your chain, that makes this a no-brainer add-on to our footswitch.  In addition to the power jack, we also offer a “Buddy Board”, a very small pedal board that bolts onto either side of our footswitch.  It gives you enough room for your tuner and a wah, or maybe a volume pedal.

It’s nice to get your tuner pedal up front where you can easily see it.  But while we were experimenting, we came across another “elegant solution”, sometimes also called a “hack”, that we liked so well that we’re going to embarrass ourselves a little bit and share it.  If you’ve seen our rack configs online or at a show, you’ve no doubt noticed we like the Korg Pitchblack Pro rack tuner.  It is an accurate tuner that is very easy to see and use, and it is affordable.  Well, it turns out that if you have an ABY or loop routing pedal, you can easily mount this great rack tuner to our footswitch.  You need the routing pedal because this rack tuner has no footswitching capabilities.  With a couple dollars’ worth of hardware, a custom power cable, a routing pedal, and a Buddy Board, you can have a killer tuner mounted on your footswitch.  Check out the pictures – doesn’t it look like it was meant to be?  Yeah, we know.  It’s a little like when your significant other maybe isn’t the greatest looking, sometimes burps and dresses a bit out of style, but is a great conversationalist, a gourmet cook, and a good dancer...

So check out the Buddy Board and our “significant other” Pitchblack Pro tuner option for the 12-Button Footswitch.  You can also find them from the Search box at www.gerlttechnologies.com or from the menus, Products – Footswitches – 12 Button Footswitch.

We’re going to be heads down on some builds going into the holidays, so we’re going to be quiet for a while.  We’ll be watching email and FB over the holidays, so don’t hesitate to contact us.  We’ll be on reduced hours the second half of December, so our responses may be delayed.  We’ll be back 110% in January, and should have some more new product and event announcements for you sometime around then.  As always, stay tuned for more updates as we continue to add more custom rack effects to our product line in the New Year!

Happy and Safe Holidays to You and Yours!!!

The Staff at Gerlt Technologies