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

 

DIGF 2019 Reminder

Published: 26 April 2019 26 April 2019

Hey, DFW guitar and bass players!

Don’t forget that the Dallas International Guitar Festival is next weekend, Fri, May 3 thru Sun, May 5 at Market Hall. There will be lots of bands playing all weekend, and LOTS of guitars and gear to check out. Of course, we’ll be there with a big assortment of affordable rackmount guitar effects for you to play. Stop by, grab a guitar, and plug into our Big Stack of custom effect modules to see how it all works and sounds.

While we think you’ll like both how it works and how it sounds, we think you’ll like our pricing just as much. Sure, maybe the big stars can afford custom rack effects that cost as much as a good car or a small house, but most of us can’t afford anything remotely like that. Instead, we’re making our custom rack effects available at prices comparable to what you pay for good pedalboard solutions. That puts a custom rack solution within your reach. The cost to “get in” is comparable to the cost of a good pedalboard, with a quality power supply, and a switching solution. The costs of individual effect modules (what you would normally call “guitar pedals”) is comparable to the prices of quality pedals from the best pedal companies. For the price of a decent guitar, you could have a custom rack effects solution behind you on stage, instead of a pedalboard in front of you on the floor! Presently we have over 200 different effects module configurations to choose from, not counting the hundreds of optional mods and customizations you can also consider. Of course, your current pedals and rack gear are compatible with our effects, so you can mix in your favorite pedals if you want. I’m dangerously close to diving into a hundred pages of cool detail, so I’ll leave it there and just add that we have a very flexible system with many options, and the more you learn about it, the more we think you’ll like it. Tons of detail is available at our website, but stop by our booth at the show to try it out and save yourself a lot of reading!

All of our effects are built by hand, one at a time, to your specific configuration, right here in Dallas, Texas. It’s old-school construction, meant to last generations – no flimsy, foreign-built, disposable electronics here! Check out our website www.gerlttechnologies.com to get all the details, including pricing, but stop by the show this weekend to check it out in person!

We hope to see you there!