DAS Audio on the Capital One Music Stage at the Orange Bowl

	"We needed high SPL, strong vocal clarity over crowd noise, even front-to-back coverage to avoid dead zones, and to be able to cover a large open area," says Betancourt.

The Capital One Music Stage at the Orange Bowl is a high-traffic, open-air environment built around energy, crowd noise, sponsor expectations, and the experience for college football fans supporting their team at this annual event. As a cornerstone of the postseason and a nationally recognized tradition, the Orange Bowl draws massive crowds, passionate fan bases, and significant media attention year after year. The production goal for this event was simple: deliver polished, intelligible sound that feels premium and consistent across a wide audience area, without sacrificing deployment speed or reliability.

Audio for the Capital One Music Stage was provided by Interface Sound and Production, the long-standing Orange Bowl audio provider, deploying DAS Audio ARA Series MARA for the January 2026 audience experience. The effort was coordinated with Illuminate Production Services, who have historically supported lighting and video for the FanFest area and Capital One Stage. For this year's event, Illuminate partnered with Interface on audio, supplying the DAS system that Interface deployed for the stage.

The sound package for the Capital One Music Stage featured DAS Audio's ARA Series, including:

*MARA line array speakers
*MARA-SUB cardioid subwoofers
*ARA-P28 front fills

"As the PA provider, I'm tasked with specifying and providing a PA that fills the band's rider requirements and works within the scope of the job: weight, performance, ease of deployment, and budget," says Michael Betancourt, of Illuminate. "The DAS Audio MARA system checked off all the requirements, and then some."

With Orange Bowl and Capital One branding on the stage, the audio had to support the experience in a very intentional way.

"The system had to feel powerful, polished, and premium, not just 'festival loud'," Betancourt says. "We needed high SPL, strong vocal clarity over crowd noise, even front-to-back coverage to avoid dead zones, and to be able to cover a large open area. This meant prioritizing intelligibility and tonal balance, not just output. All of that is what MARA delivers."

From a system design perspective, the team leaned on MARA's even coverage and onboard tools to keep results predictable and tuning efficient.

"By design, the waveguides of the MARA system keep the audio consistent horizontally across the entire audience area," says Carlos Henao, senior sales engineer for DAS Audio. "Not only because it's a line array, but thanks in large part to features like Atmospheric Correction, HOS EQs, and DASaim, all found onboard the boxes themselves, without external processing. Perfect sound and perfect coverage for the entire audience is made possible by these features."

On the ground, that translated into a system the crew could deploy quickly and confidently. Daniel Fernandez, Lead System Tech, shared feedback after deployment:

"The system is awesome, it sounds so good. Thank you for organizing everything and preparing it so the cabling and the whole setup were easy."

Interface Sound and Production has deployed DAS Audio at the Orange Bowl for two decades, evolving through multiple product generations as event needs and expectations have grown.

"We have had amazing support from DAS since day one," says Ralph Alavaez, Interface Sound and Production. "The technology gets better every year and the software gets friendlier...As I've been spearheading the annual show, I will always go to DAS Audio as my first choice."