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 Module: FuzzFazer

Published: 06 April 2021 06 April 2021

 

 

Hello, Effects Fans!

Today we announce our new FuzzFazer module.  Our FuzzFazer module compares to the Roland AP-7 Jet Phaser.  The Roland AP-7 Jet Phaser is a classic vintage phaser that combined a fuzz and phaser into an early multi-effect unit.  It was used to get that funky guitar sound in The Isley Brother's hit Who's That Lady?  Also works great with bass, and was used by bass slapper Larry Graham with Sly and the Family Stone and many of his other collaborations, including with Prince.  It was available around 1975 - 1978.  Funk it up!  While it wasn't used by Keith, it gives you a nice tone for the Some Girls album. 

The sound wasn't the only funky feature of the Jet Phaser.  The controls on the original unit were a bit funky.  There was a Jet Level that controlled the volume, but only when the fuzz was on.  A Resonance knob controlled feedback in the phaser portion of the circuit.  A Slow Rate knob let you adjust the rate of the phasing, when it was on the Slow setting.  There was a footswitch to turn the effect on and off.  A second footswitch changed between Fast and Slow phaser settings.  Then there was the Mode switch.  You could switch between six different modes.  The first four modes were combinations of bright/dark fuzz and two phaser presets.  The other two modes had no fuzz.  They were phaser-only settings.

Our module stays close to the original pedal design, but we changed up the controls to provide a wider array of settings than the original six modes.  The original modes are all still there in the new controls, though.  The original also had a fixed tone stack for the fuzz circuit, which offered only "dark" or "bright" settings in the four modes that had fuzz.  We've replaced that with a simple Tone control.  At the two extreme positions of the knob, you get the old tone settings, but with much finer control in between them.  Four of the original modes were fuzz plus phaser and two were phaser only.  But you couldn't get just the fuzz without the phaser.  Our controls allow that.

We offer a number of control options for our FuzzFazer.  We leave the base tone alone and just allow you to dial in more of it.  

You can see the details about our FuzzFazer module at: FuzzFazer.  Or look for it in the Phaser Modules section under Products -> Modules -> Modules By Type.