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

 

New Module Configurations: Double Looper

Published: 26 August 2021 26 August 2021

 

   

Hello, Effects Fans!

Today we announce our new Double Looper.  The Double Looper is actually a set of 4 different configurations of our Bypass Looper module.  As you might guess, the Double Looper is two Bypass Loopers in a single module.  These configurations take up the same amount of space, giving you two loops in the same space one loop requires.  That’s nice, but even nicer is that the price is much less than two separate Bypass Loopers!

Loopers give you the ability to control third party rack effects and pedals with the Gerlt Technologies rack switching modules and footswitches.  You can use them to turn on and off those nice, easy-to-see rack tuners (for example), using the same footswitch unit that controls your Gerlt Technologies rack effect modules.  You can also use a Looper to turn third party pedals on/off using your Gerlt Technologies switching and footswitch.  Utilizing our new 3U Pedal Rack that we just announced earlier today, you can conveniently mount your pedals in a rack and control them remotely using Looper modules and our switching technology.  This provides a way to continue mixing in third party pedals and effects, as well as giving you options to get started on a rack solution without having to replace everything all at once.

Gerlt Technologies rack effects are affordable and easy to use.  With the introduction of our Double Looper configurations and 3U Pedal Rack, you can combine the best rack effects with the best pedals, providing a world of options for your custom rack effects configuration!

You can see the details about our Looper configurations at: Bypass Looper.