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 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.