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!

 

I hope all is going well for you!

I’m back in the USA now, after a lengthy time away.  I’ve taken a bit of time to survey the post-post-COVID business climate and think about our next steps.   As is often the case, there are conflicting signals to sort through.  I won’t bore you with all the details.  The result is that I think the time is still not right to resume normal operations. 

One of the primary reasons is personal.  About a year ago I jumped into a really fun, non-work opportunity that took me out of the USA for most of the past year.  I will be out of the country again most of the coming year before things settle down to a new normal for me.  It’s a lot of fun, but wasn’t really part of any plan I had, so I need to adjust my plans.  I’m not able to operate Gerlt Technologies while I’m away, so the shutdown will continue for probably another year due to that until I can get my personal and professional plans realigned. 

Beyond that, the post- post-COVID situation is still unsettled.  I expected a period of ripple effects from COVID shutdowns, supply chain problems, and other world economic and political events that impact our business.  I’m starting to think those ripples aren’t going to die away and return us to something similar to the world we knew before 2020.  If some of those changes become permanent, much work and difficult decisions may be necessary.  At the moment, the parts I couldn’t obtain are now available, but some others are now unavailable.  Costs are both up and down for components, but shipping costs are now a large and growing portion of component cost and would probably force a general price increase, an action I’m very reluctant to take.  In a market that is difficult to read, it is difficult to justify additional investment.  As long as we remain cautious, we can continue to wait for time and change to bring about a better situation, even if it takes a while.

In the meantime, I will have some time to work on the less exciting “internal stuff” that is necessary to the process of building and delivering our products.  Our internal processes are a bit messy as a result of rapid product line growth, shutdown of some suppliers and vendors, and other reasons.  If we were to resume taking orders, these problems would quickly tangle up our operations.  So while we have “quiet time”, I’ll work to clean up some of those issues so we’ll be better positioned for the future.

I hope to also be doing some of the fun work, such as completing some new products, or at least moving them further along, and possibly some marketing events.  So keep an eye on us while we work through some of the issues that are holding us up at present.  I’m not sure exactly when I’ll return from my next sojourn, but it will likely be about this time next year when I pop up and take another look around to see how it looks.

Until next time,

Bill Gerlt

President, Gerlt Technologies

Dallas, Texas

21 June, 2023

 


 

   

OK, all you metalheads out there, this one’s for you!

Our new FlatTop module compares to the Wampler Triple Wreck, which is designed to give you those killer high-gain tones you might normally find in a Peavey 5150 or Mesa, which are cousin tones to the EVH Brown Sound and Marshall high-gain tones. All a bit different, but all a bit similar, too. The FlatTop is a high-gain, metal monster. If you dime the Level, Gain, and/or some of the Bass/Mids/Treble tone stack, you will undoubtedly overload the front-end of your amp and get a squealing out-of-control mess of feedback and amplified noise. Start backing off from that point, and you’ll find your metal tones. Screaming leads, no problem. Chugging chunkin’ palm-muted power cords, no problem. Super-sensitivity and harmonics – yep. When it comes to gain, this module has more than you can safely use. First time we tried it out, all our fire alarms went off – really! Turned out not to be related. Yeah, sure it wasn’t – this thing is hot. Plus it weighs *a lot* less than our 5150 combo and our Mesa and Marshall half-stacks.

This module is about the gain. But if you dial the gain down, you actually end up with some reasonably clean low-gain tones. It does not clean up with your guitar volume – only with the effect Level control. The Bass/Mids/Treble tone stack gives you opportunities for scooping the mids, boosting the bass and/or treble, or whatever you need to do to create your own sonic mayhem. And if that isn’t enough, there is, wait for it... a boost. It’s a funky boost. It does give you a bit more volume, but it is actually more like a second tone stack, or a “contour” or “voice” control. It has a bigger impact on the tone than the gain and volume. Some may not care for that boost, since it takes a while to adapt to it. In that case, we offer a couple of our other boosts as built-in options. You would likely only find a normal boost usable at lower gain and level settings, since the main circuit has such high gain.

These is also a Vintage/Modern switch that changes between full highs and trimmed highs so you can choose how brutal you want to treat your speaker cones.

Stop by our booth at the Amigo Ft Worth Guitar Show on Oct 5 and Oct 6 to give the FlatTop a try, along with some of our other new modules. You can see more details about the FlatTop at FlatTop. Also take a look in our Amp Sim modules to get info about some other high-gain modules we offer for when it is time to get brutal and melt some faces.