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.
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, and a cop pulled up.
03:09He was like, what are you doing?
03:11I was like, hey, I have a championship show tomorrow. I'm trying to set the system.
03:15He was like, I was two and a half miles away and just followed the sound to you.
03:19I was like, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:21He was such a nice cop. He said, I'm going to give you 15 more minutes.
03:24I'll cancel all the 9-1-1 calls that's complaining about the sound, and get your system right, and I hope you win.
03:30I was like, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:32He was such a nice cop. He said, I'm going to give you 15 more minutes.
03:35I was like, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:36He was such a nice cop. He said, I'll cancel all the 9-1-1 calls that's complaining about the sound, and get 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, one show.
03:47Trying to get 86 speakers, 11 amplifiers, three miles of copper wiring, three alternators, seven batteries, DSP, and a vehicle this size.
04:00Everything had to be designed.
04:06This is S325001.
04:21This is S325001.
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.
04:31wheels and then we have all of our microphone switches so we can cut on up
04:35to five microphones and have five live mics going at the same time because we
04:41have a studio-grade mixer. This is my favorite microphone so it stays up here
04:46with me but the mics we let people use are in the back. A nice iPad in the dash
04:51and all our switches have been moved but the coolest thing we pull our iPad out
04:59we still have our radio controls. On a quick glance that's the Sol Asylum H2 a
05:05very diverse multi control 86 speaker mobile stage sound quality SPL build. A
05:15nice thing about the Sol Asylum H2 is it isn't slow. It's top speed 105 miles an
05:21hour in this big beautiful heavy vehicle. I'll let you guys just think about what
05:26it could possibly cost but we did buy the Hummer used for $40,000 and if you
05:33just take our amps and speakers in a box unshipped from Match Pro Audio you're
05:39looking at over $35,000 just in a box. Best I can give you on prices. If we ever
05:47sold the H2 it would definitely had to be someone that was gonna use it for
05:50charity or use it for what we're using it for it couldn't just go and be locked
05:54up in some garage. If someone offered me money to buy the Sol Asylum H2 without
05:58hesitation it would be for a quarter million dollars. When it gets dark the Sol Asylum H2 is
06:04bananas. We have won world titles for our LED lighting interior and exterior. I'm a
06:12very humble person but we made people change up their lighting game. We're very
06:17competitive. Yes I go to the shows to compete and to win because I'm there
06:22representing my company at the same time. So we want the money. And earn it.