{"id":19498,"date":"2026-01-08T12:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/?p=19498"},"modified":"2026-01-09T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T09:38:06","slug":"creed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/de\/creed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Gerhart chooses DirectOut for Creed and InPhase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><section class=\"ffb-id-5qf5oeb0 fg-section fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"fg-container container fg-container-large fg-container-lvl--1\"><div class=\"fg-row row\" ><div class=\"ffb-id-5qf5oeb1 fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-12 fg-text-dark\"><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-8nnffpfr fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-6 fg-text-dark\"><a class=\"ffb-id-8nnfg9pl  responsive-image-wrapper freshframework-lightbox-image fg-text-dark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/067C2591-BD1F-4969-9782-8E013BEDC00C-1-scaled.jpeg\" title=\"FOH engineer Kyle Gerhart in his FOH workstation during a Creed live performance.\"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"fg-image  img-responsive full-width\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/067C2591-BD1F-4969-9782-8E013BEDC00C-1-scaled.jpeg\"  alt=\"FOH engineer Kyle Gerhart in his FOH workstation during a Creed live performance.\"  title=\"\"   ><\/a><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-7j6q65ud fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-6 fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"ffb-id-7j6q65ue fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>DirectOut&nbsp;manufactures&nbsp;high-end&nbsp;audio solutions that are the product of choice for many live sound engineers. This&nbsp;includes&nbsp;Kyle&nbsp;Gerhart, front of house engineer for Creed and owner&nbsp;of&nbsp;InPhase&nbsp;Productions LLC.&nbsp;Gerhart made the change to&nbsp;DirectOut&nbsp;PRODIGY and MAVEN&nbsp;after&nbsp;technical&nbsp;difficulties in 2024. There was some&nbsp;initial&nbsp;skeptatsism&nbsp;from&nbsp;Creed&rsquo;s&nbsp;system engineer, Andy&nbsp;Bongardt, but&nbsp;he&nbsp;soon&nbsp;realized the potential of the PRODIGY.MP&nbsp;and&nbsp;neither engineer has looked back.&nbsp;DirectOut&nbsp;Smart&nbsp;Platforms&nbsp;have provided the backbone to their audio systems ever since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Creed have enjoyed huge success over their long career, selling over 53 million albums worldwide. After a ten-year hiatus, the band reformed in 2023, taking part in the<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><style>@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-5qf5oeb0{ padding-bottom: 0px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-7j6q65ud{ padding-bottom: 10px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-8nnfg9pl{ padding-top: 0px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><div class=\"ffb-id-96hecjn1 fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>Summer of &rsquo;99 Cruise and announcing their 2024 tour of the same name. The band continued to tour prolifically in 2025 with Are you Ready? and have a quieter year planned for 2026. After their success, rumors of an even larger 2027 worldwide tour are already circulating.&nbsp; &ldquo;<em>I used a different system processor for many, many years, but about three years ago, I went&nbsp;to go&nbsp;visit my&nbsp;buddy&nbsp;Curtis, who mixes 3 Doors Down. Michael Mordente was&nbsp;the&nbsp;system engineer at the&nbsp;time&nbsp;and they&nbsp;were&nbsp;using PRODIGYs,&rdquo;<\/em> he recalls.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><style>@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-5qf5oeb0{ \npadding-bottom: 0px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-7j6q65ud{ \npadding-bottom: 10px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-8nnfg9pl{ \npadding-top: 0px;\n\n}\n}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><section class=\"ffb-id-94rot45b fg-section fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"fg-container container fg-container-large fg-container-lvl--1\"><div class=\"fg-row row\" ><div class=\"ffb-id-94rot45d fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-8 fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"ffb-id-94rot45f fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>They&nbsp;were the&nbsp;first people to&nbsp;introduce&nbsp;me to&nbsp;the benefits of&nbsp;DirectOut&nbsp;solutions.&nbsp;We&rsquo;d&nbsp;been having issues, some of&nbsp;which&nbsp;were down to our devices, but it was also our&nbsp;configuration.&nbsp;So, for 2025 I let our supplier, Clair Global, know that I wanted to run&nbsp;our&nbsp;new amplifiers&nbsp;with a full Milan network and I wanted&nbsp;DirectOut&nbsp;as the core of my&nbsp;whole system.<\/em>&rdquo;&nbsp;<br \/>Gerhart was so impressed with&nbsp;DirectOut&nbsp;solutions that he&nbsp;also&nbsp;purchased&nbsp;a rig&nbsp;for his company,&nbsp;InPhase, which he uses at&nbsp;the&nbsp;front of house&nbsp;position&nbsp;for Creed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>I bought a MAVEN.A, so I have my personal rig&nbsp;in addition to&nbsp;what I specify for the touring side of things,<\/em>&rdquo;&nbsp;he&nbsp;continues. &ldquo;<em>For me, me&nbsp;putting the MAVEN.A&nbsp;in my rack has allowed me to get rid of a&nbsp;Smaart&nbsp;interface, so it saved rack space. I was also able to incorporate a whole Dante network into my system&nbsp;and&nbsp;use it as my playback unit. <br \/><\/em><em>That amount of versatility in a single&nbsp;device&nbsp;was&nbsp;pretty powerful.&nbsp;Another&nbsp;big&nbsp;advantage&nbsp;was the filter set;&nbsp;having the all-pass filters, as well as the notch filters is great, the tilt filters are&nbsp;fantastic,&nbsp;too!<\/em>&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-94rot45g fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-4 fg-text-dark\"><a class=\"ffb-id-94rot45i  responsive-image-wrapper freshframework-lightbox-image fg-text-dark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0431-1-scaled.jpeg\" title=\"Andy\u00a0Bongardt (Creed\u2019s\u00a0system engineer) and  Kyle\u00a0Gerhart (Creed&#039;s front of house engineer\u00a0and owner\u00a0of\u00a0InPhase\u00a0Productions LLC). \"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"fg-image  img-responsive full-width\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_0431-1-scaled.jpeg\"  alt=\"Andy\u00a0Bongardt (Creed\u2019s\u00a0system engineer) and  Kyle\u00a0Gerhart (Creed&#039;s front of house engineer\u00a0and owner\u00a0of\u00a0InPhase\u00a0Productions LLC).\"  title=\"\"   ><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><style>@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rot45b{ padding-top: 5px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rot45i{ padding-top: 2px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rot45d{ padding-bottom: 10px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rot45f{ padding-top: 0px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><section class=\"ffb-id-94rp7gv3 fg-section fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"fg-container container fg-container-large fg-container-lvl--1\"><div class=\"fg-row row\" ><div class=\"ffb-id-96hf66cn fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-5 fg-text-dark\"><a class=\"ffb-id-96hf6bip  responsive-image-wrapper freshframework-lightbox-image fg-text-dark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2070-1-scaled.jpeg\" title=\"A detailed view of the front-of-house drive rack featuring the PRODIGY.MP and the globcon control platform.\"><img decoding=\"async\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2070-1-scaled.jpeg 2551w, https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/freshizer\/433c6f30a4b52dffe50b1bb8a781a6d1_IMG_2070-1-scaled-320-c-100.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/freshizer\/433c6f30a4b52dffe50b1bb8a781a6d1_IMG_2070-1-scaled-768-c-100.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/freshizer\/433c6f30a4b52dffe50b1bb8a781a6d1_IMG_2070-1-scaled-992-c-100.jpeg 992w, https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/freshizer\/433c6f30a4b52dffe50b1bb8a781a6d1_IMG_2070-1-scaled-1200-c-100.jpeg 1200w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 2551px) 100vw, 2551px\"  class=\"fg-image  img-responsive full-width\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2070-1-scaled.jpeg\"  alt=\"A detailed view of the front-of-house drive rack featuring the PRODIGY.MP and the globcon control platform.\"  title=\"\"   ><\/a><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-94rp7gv7 fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-7 fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"ffb-id-94rp7gv9 fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>System engineer,&nbsp;Bongardt,&nbsp;has been a Clair Global employee for 14 years. He started as an intern and has worked his way up,&nbsp;first as a PA tech, then&nbsp;monitor&nbsp;tech,&nbsp;monitor&nbsp;engineer and front of house engineer. During the pandemic, he made the switch to&nbsp;system engineering&nbsp;and has been with Creed for&nbsp;the last two&nbsp;years.&nbsp;To begin with,&nbsp;DirectOut&nbsp;solutions&nbsp;felt too&nbsp;unfamiliar and&nbsp;expansive, but once he had narrowed down exactly what the system needed, he realized it was&nbsp;a very&nbsp;manageable to work with.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>Historically,&nbsp;I'm&nbsp;more of an&nbsp;old school analog guy,&nbsp;so starting out it felt like a lot&nbsp;-&nbsp;so many possibilities!&nbsp;Once I did the first tour, I&nbsp;got&nbsp;accustomed to&nbsp;it&nbsp;and&nbsp;I've&nbsp;toured with PRODIGY about four times since then,<\/em>&rdquo; he explains. <em>&ldquo;The PRODIGYs have a lot of capability. Initially, I started looking through the possibilities and workflow; the FIR filters, the IIR filters, and all the different parameters were really useful.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><style>@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rot45b{ \npadding-top: 5px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rot45i{ \npadding-top: 2px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rot45d{ \npadding-bottom: 10px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rot45f{ \npadding-top: 0px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rp7gv3{ padding-top: 10px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rp7gv7{ padding-bottom: 0px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rp7gv9{ padding-top: 10px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><div class=\"ffb-id-96hftgrm fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p><em>We were mixing and matching PA hangs on tour, so we used the full toy box. Having the offline capability to program, then draw out the processing signal flow was great, I still don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;ve managed to max one out.<\/em>&rdquo;&nbsp;<br \/>The&nbsp;Creed&nbsp;audio system is built around the&nbsp;PRODIGY.MP&nbsp;managing&nbsp;console matrixing and driving the PA.&nbsp;The filters are one part of the workflow, but&nbsp;it&nbsp;is also taking care of network conversions, switching between analog, AVB Milan and AES signals&nbsp;so that&nbsp;data&nbsp;can flow seamlessly between&nbsp;stage,&nbsp;tech&nbsp;and front of house&nbsp;systems.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><style>@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rp7gv3{ \npadding-top: 10px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rp7gv7{ \npadding-bottom: 0px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rp7gv9{ \npadding-top: 10px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-96hftgrm{ padding-top: 15px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><section class=\"ffb-id-94rpsdmh fg-section fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"fg-container container fg-container-large fg-container-lvl--1\"><div class=\"fg-row row\" ><div class=\"ffb-id-94rpsdmi fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-7 fg-text-dark\"><div class=\"ffb-id-94rpsdmk fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/p>\n<p>The PRODIGY.MP is fully loaded with two analog input cards, two analog output cards, an AES card, AVB and&nbsp;Dante cards. This ensures that&nbsp;Bongardt&nbsp;can time and tune the entire loudspeaker&nbsp;system&nbsp;and&nbsp;can&nbsp;consolidate&nbsp;the separate matrix&nbsp;devices&nbsp;he was using previously.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>As&nbsp;Bongardt&nbsp;and Gerhart conclude, the efficiency of this system,&nbsp;coupled with the versality,&nbsp;flexibility&nbsp;and reliability of the PRODIGY&nbsp;Smart&nbsp;Platform&nbsp;has ensured they have&nbsp;earnt&nbsp;their place in the Creed touring package.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<em>The PRODIGYs&nbsp;are&nbsp;great.&nbsp;Having everything within one box&nbsp;and&nbsp;figuring&nbsp;out ways to do&nbsp;really cool&nbsp;things with my&nbsp;Stream&nbsp;Decks&nbsp;was super,<\/em>&rdquo;&nbsp;Bongardt&nbsp;says. &ldquo;<em>I started out making OSC commands for it, just having fun. Now I&rsquo;ve got the Companion Plugin, it is way easier. I&rsquo;ve actually bought a bigger Stream Deck so I can have more buttons! The PRODIGY.MP is the centerpiece of the drive rack and does most of the processing. It won me over on that tour.&nbsp;I was not a fan initially, but now&nbsp;I want one on all the shows I do.&nbsp;For PRODIGY to change my mind like that is&nbsp;a&nbsp;very rare&nbsp;thing.<\/em>&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gerhart&nbsp;finishes,&nbsp;&ldquo;<em>I really like the gain&nbsp;and tone&nbsp;matching for&nbsp;analog to AES&nbsp;and the fact that&nbsp;I've&nbsp;been able to&nbsp;get&nbsp;creative with it.&nbsp;It takes&nbsp;the product to a higher level and makes it superior. There's reliability, big space&nbsp;savings&nbsp;and I am constantly finding new ways to use it. The value is&nbsp;definitely there.<\/em>&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ffb-id-94rpsdml fg-col col-xs-12 col-md-5 fg-text-dark\"><a class=\"ffb-id-94rpsdmn  responsive-image-wrapper freshframework-lightbox-image fg-text-dark\" href=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251219_CREED-TBROWN-71-1.jpeg\" title=\"Kyle Gerhart at FOH station \"><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"fg-image  img-responsive full-width\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.directout.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20251219_CREED-TBROWN-71-1.jpeg\"  alt=\"Kyle Gerhart at FOH station\"  title=\"\"   ><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><style>@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-96hftgrm{ \npadding-top: 15px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rpsdmh{ padding-top: 15px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rpsdmn{ padding-top: 2px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rpsdmi{ padding-bottom: 10px;}}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-94rpsdmk{ padding-top: 0px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><div class=\"ffb-id-96hg79ff fg-paragraph ff-richtext text-left    fg-text-dark\"><\/div><style>@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rpsdmh{ \npadding-top: 15px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rpsdmn{ \npadding-top: 2px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rpsdmi{ \npadding-bottom: 10px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { \n.ffb-id-94rpsdmk{ \npadding-top: 0px;\n\n}\n}@media (min-width:992px) { .ffb-id-96hg79ff{ padding-top: 0px;}}<\/style><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DirectOut manufactures high-end audio solutions that are the product of choice for many live sound engineers. This includes Kyle Gerhart, front of house engineer for Creed and owner of InPhase Productions LLC. Gerhart made the change to DirectOut PRODIGY and MAVEN after technical difficulties in 2024. There was some initial skeptatsism from Creed\u2019s system engineer, Andy Bongardt, but he soon realized the potential of the PRODIGY.MP and neither engineer has looked back. DirectOut Smart Platforms have provided the backbone to their audio systems ever since. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,97,190,105],"tags":[213,206,89,68],"class_list":["post-19498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live","category-live-ref","category-prodigy-ref","category-references","tag-live","tag-maven","tag-prodigy","tag-references","post-wrapper"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kyle Gerhart chooses DirectOut for Creed and InPhase - DirectOut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"DirectOut\u00a0manufactures\u00a0high-end\u00a0audio solutions that are the product of choice for many live sound engineers. 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