86 SPEAKERS, 11 amplifiers, and more than a mile of LED light wiring have been crammed into an H2 Hummer to create a deafening party-mobile. Rafael Capone has modified cars all his life, but his ‘Soul Asylum H2’ Hummer, built to promote his recording studio of the same name, has taken things to a new level. The speaker-packed behemoth has been dominating car show competitions around Rafael’s native Atlanta, wowing crowds with its all-custom interior and LED light set-up. Rafael told FutureStudiosCars: “No piece of this car was left factory. The reaction when we pull up is always a, ‘Wow, I love your car’.
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00:00The reaction when we pull up in the Solosound H2, it's always a wow.
00:07We usually start with sound quality and just get used to that.
00:11We just blam them on the bass.
00:13I'm Raphael Capone, the owner of the Solosound Studios Group, and here we have the Solosound H2.
00:44The amount of speakers in the Solosound H2 is 86.
00:50We want sound quality at loud, natural volumes versus just blaring, hurting your ears loud.
01:01We've had many clients that use Solosound Studios.
01:06T.I., Future, Justin Bieber, Rocco, Jeezy.
01:16The Solosound H2, we use it for marketing, promotion, brand awareness, charity, competition.
01:25Thank you everybody for showing up. I'm sure Jason's smiling.
01:35We average at least 100 car shows a year. That's not including meets.
01:48We average just over 250, sometimes 300 to under 300 trophies a year.
01:57I got something to say.
01:59I made the Solosound H2 because it isn't the first of its kind.
02:03In 1990, when I was still in the military, my first show vehicle was built, and that was my passion.
02:12Of course, I wanted to open up a recording studio, but I wanted to do both.
02:16So I built a show vehicle. It was called the Motown Soldier.
02:20It became world famous back then.
02:23We got this in the end of 2014. In 30 days, we put all the LED lights on it.
02:28We got a system going in it. We put the wheels on it. We put the graphics on it.
02:33Started doing shows, and it was cool.
02:37When building it, my main focus was sound quality.
02:40I wanted to be loud, but I wanted sound quality.
02:42I wanted to what I hear in the studio to hear on the road.
02:44All of our speakers are doing different things.
02:48We have six tweeters, 14 horns, 12 subs, eight mid-bass speakers, eight mid-range speakers.
02:57We've been told up to three miles away, we've been heard.
03:02Sometimes on the weekend, I'll prepare for a show, and I'll be testing and tuning, and a cop pulled up.
03:09I was like, I have a championship show tomorrow. I'm trying to set the system.
03:13He was like, I was two and a half miles away and just followed the sound to you.
03:17I was like, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:19He was such a nice cop. He said, I'm going to give you 15 more minutes.
03:22I'll cancel all the 911 calls, just complaining about the sound, and get your system right, and I hope you win.
03:28I said, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:30He said, I'm going to give you 15 more minutes.
03:32I'll cancel all the 911 calls, just complaining about the sound, and get your system right, and I hope you win.
03:38I took those 15 minutes, and I set the system.
03:41When we did that show the next day, we came back with 12 trophies, one show.
03:46Trying to get 86 speakers, 11 amplifiers, three miles of copper wiring, three alternators, seven batteries, DSP, and a vehicle this size.
03:59Everything had to be designed.
04:07We had to design everything.
04:23Even our pillars, which are easily overlooked, are custom pillars that house tweeters.
04:28Of course, we have a red chrome wrap with the red chrome matching wheels, and then we have all of our microphone switches.
04:34We can cut on up to five microphones, and have five live mics going at the same time, because we have a studio grade mixer.
04:44This is my favorite microphone, so it stays up here with me, but the mics we let people use are in the back.
04:50A nice iPad in the dash, and all our switches have been moved, but the coolest thing, we pull our iPad out, we still have our radio controls.
05:01On a quick glance, that's the Soul Asylum H2.
05:05A very diverse, multi-control, 86 speaker, mobile stage, sound quality, SPL build.
05:16The nice thing about the Soul Asylum H2 is it isn't slow.
05:19It's top speed, 105 miles an hour, in this big, beautiful, heavy vehicle.
05:24I'll let you guys just think about what it could possibly cost, but we did buy the Hummer used for $40,000.
05:32And if you just take our amps and speakers in a box, unshipped from Match Pro Audio, you're looking at over $35,000, just in a box.
05:44Best I can give you on prices.
05:47If we ever sold the H2, it would definitely have to be someone that was going to use it for charity, or use it for what we're using it for.
05:52It couldn't just go and be locked up in some garage.
05:56If someone offered me money to buy the Soul Asylum H2 without hesitation, it would be for a quarter million dollars.
06:01When it gets dark, the Soul Asylum H2 is bananas.
06:06We have won world titles for our LED lighting, interior and exterior.
06:13I'm a very humble person, but we made people change up their lighting game.
06:17We're very competitive.
06:19Yes, I go to the shows to compete and to win, because I'm there representing my company at the same time.
06:25So, we're going through.
06:27And earning it.