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

 

A Note From Bill - March, 2020

Published: 13 March 2020 13 March 2020

Hello, Effects Fans!

Chances are good that you are doing what we are doing – replanning your work and social life while the world deals with a new health concern.  You can get better info about all of that elsewhere, so I’m not going to rehash it here to provide information that will be outdated by the time I get it posted.  “Be cautious, but not fearful” is my approach, mixing in a good deal of “be flexible” and “be mindful of others” as we adjust.  I imagine many of you have adopted similar approaches.  While I expect we are all sharing similar constraints and inconveniences, those changes can impact us in different ways.  Hopefully normalcy will return quickly, leaving us all a little wiser and a bit more thoughtful as a result.

At GT, some of our activities have been affected and some not so much.  And not all the impacts are bad. 

First, we also just announced that the 2020 Dallas International Guitar Festival we plan to attend has been postponed.  The Nashville Amigo Guitar Show was also cancelled, although we had schedule conflicts for that show and probably weren’t going to be able to attend.  The Nashville show is being replaced by a show in Arlington, TX this summer.  We’re evaluating whether we can attend that show.  We’ll have to wait and see as other scheduling challenges get resolved.

There’s also a bit of “slow down” in the business community as more employers reduce hours and/or ask their employees to work from home.  In an industry where physical parts, equipment, and supplies need to get from Point A to Point B, things don’t move too quickly if there are no people there to move them.  We expect those challenges to continue for a while.

Previously I had explained that we were going to be slowing R&D activities for a while to do some work on our website and some related activities.  That work has been progressing nicely and the first stage of it is nearly complete.  Much remains to be done, but we have a “breather” in those activities planned for the next couple of months or so.  Those activities included some third-party support.  Since most of that is online work, it is probably less subject to disruption since everyone involved can do most of this work from home or alternate locations across the Internet.  If that unplanned disruption with the online work doesn’t occur, then our planned disruption to R&D may start again in a couple of months when we resume our website work.

With postponements and general slowing, along with the planned break in our website work, we find we actually have more time than expected for R&D activities.  We have one more module that is completed and should be announced very soon.  We also have our first boards back for another 4 modules.  We are in the process of building and testing those, which if all goes as planned should give us more modules to announce in April and May when we were expecting to not have any new product announcements.  We also have another very large batch of modules with designs that are complete, or very nearly so, and we’ll be getting boards for those soon.  I’ve lost track at the moment, but there are about 20 of them, which will “Compare To” around 30-50 well-known pedals.  Again, if all goes as planned, we could begin releasing those around the beginning of summer.

Or something else may happen to disrupt all of our disrupted plans!  Whatever it is, you can be sure that we’ll still be here adjusting our work of designing and building the largest offering of the best rack effects available in our solar system!

Cheers!

Bill Gerlt

President, Gerlt Technologies

Dallas, Texas