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!

In my last update I was excited after finding some small quantities of critical components that are needed to build our effects. I hoped that to be a sign that perhaps some of our supply chain problems were easing. But it seems those were just one-off lucky finds. I haven’t found any more since then. On top of all the other problems, we now have the ripple effect of the conflict in the Ukraine, which has caused even more parts to become unavailable and/or very expensive.

It’s one thing to be optimistic, but another to be unrealistic. This is no longer a time for simple optimism. It is a time for handling unpleasant realities. Our reality is that it seems very unlikely that enough positive changes will occur quickly enough for us to re-open in 2022. While the corporation is in a good position to weather a continued lengthy shutdown, the people are not able to. We need to take some time to go do “other stuff” for a while.

We still have several new modules to announce. The work is complete on almost all of them, so I’ll try to get those announcements out in April and May. Other than that, I’m afraid it is going to be pretty quiet here until we are able to reliably source parts at reasonable prices again. I probably won’t have another update until late summer or into autumn.

The good news is that Gerlt Technologies is still here and alive. We haven’t “lost” anything. We still have the largest selection of rack effects available, getting close to 400. Our effects still sound great. And we still want to make them available to you. We’re just going to have to continue our break for a while until the business and economic conditions improve to the point that we can provide outstanding products and support at affordable prices.

I apologize for the continued delay and will do everything I can to get us going again as soon as it becomes feasible.

 

Cheers,

Bill Gerlt

President, Gerlt Technologies

Dallas, Texas

11 April, 2022

 

November 2019 Update

Published: 09 November 2019 09 November 2019

Whazzup effects fans?!

I’m psyched! It has been a little quiet around here while I was finishing up several new module designs that had been piling up. I just received a shipment of new boards for a bunch of new effects including an OD, two great chorus circuits, a flanger, a cool “utility” module for powering third party stuff, a popular phaser, and an original design secret weapon for bass players. Also just received a shipment of new custom metalwork to support those new module designs. Lots of building and testing coming up, one of my favorite parts of the R&D process.

After so many modules over the years, the odds of getting boards right the first time are getting pretty good. But those boards will still get turned every which way to shake out any bugs. Sometimes a fix or improvement is needed, requiring updated boards before we’re willing to announce and release them as products. Once we get these boards sorted out, we’ll have about 12 new module configurations that we should be able to release in the upcoming weeks. Another flanger and a preamp/boost are following right behind them. These should take us to over 250 different module configurations, comparable to a similar number of pedals. I’m not sure any other company has that many effects to choose from, particularly rack effects designed for players, but equally at home in a studio. Check out the Compares To page to see the current list.

Keep an eye out for announcements of some of these new modules as we head into the holidays! Now, gotta go heat up the soldering iron!