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.
02:10That was my passion.
02:12Of course, I wanted to open up a recording studio, but I wanted to do both.
02:16I 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.
02:25In 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.
03:06A cop pulled up.
03:08He said,
03:11Sometimes on the weekend, I'll prepare for a show, and I'll be testing and tuning.
03:14A cop pulled up.
03:17He was like,
03:19I have a championship show tomorrow. I'm trying to set the system.
03:23He was like,
03:25I was two and a half miles away and just followed the sound to you.
03:27I was like, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:29He was such a nice cop. He said,
03:31I'm going to give you 15 more minutes.
03:33I'll cancel all the 911 calls, just complaining about the sound.
03:36Get your system right, and I hope you win.
03:39I took those 15 minutes, and I set the system.
03:42When we did that show the next day, we came back with 12 trophies.
03:45One show.
03:47Trying to get 86 speakers,
03:4911 amplifiers,
03:51three miles of copper wiring,
03:53three alternators, seven batteries,
03:55DSP,
03:57and a vehicle this size.
04:00Everything had to be designed.
04:09We had to design everything.
04:23Even our pillars, which are easily overlooked,
04:26are custom pillars that house tweeters.
04:29Of course, we have a red chrome wrap with the red chrome matching wheels.
04:32Then we have all of our microphone switches.
04:34We can cut on up to five microphones
04:37and have five live mics going at the same time
04:40because we have a studio grade mixer.
04:44This is my favorite microphone, so it stays up here with me,
04:46but the mics we let people use are in the back.
04:50A nice iPad in the dash.
04:54All our switches have been moved,
04:56but the coolest thing,
04:58we 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,
05:07multi-control,
05:0986-speaker,
05:11mobile stage,
05:13sound quality, SPL built.
05:15The nice thing about the Soul Asylum H2 is it isn't slow.
05:18It's top speed, 105 miles an hour,
05:21in this big, beautiful, heavy vehicle.
05:24I'll let you guys just think about what it could possibly cost,
05:27but we did buy the Hummer used for $40,000.
05:32And if you just take our amps and speakers in a box,
05:36unshipped from Match Pro Audio,
05:39you're looking at over $35,000 just in a box.
05:44Best I can give you on prices.
05:46If we ever sold the H2,
05:48it would definitely have to be someone that was going to use it for charity
05:51or use it for what we're using it for.
05:53It couldn't just go and be locked up in some garage.
05:55If someone offered me money to buy the Soul Asylum H2 without hesitation,
05:58it would be for a quarter million dollars.
06:01When it gets dark,
06:03the Soul Asylum H2 is bananas.
06:05We have won world titles for our LED lighting,
06:10interior and exterior.
06:12I'm a very humble person,
06:14but 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
06:22because I'm there representing my company at the same time.
06:25So we want them.
06:27And earn them for it.
06:31Soul Asylum H2