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.
04:06The Roc Rap
04:23Even our pillars, which are easily overlooked, are custom pillars that house tweeters.
04:29Of course we have a red chrome wrap with the red chrome matching wheels, and then we have all of our microphone switches
04:34So we can cut on up to five microphones and have five live mics going at the same time because we have a studio-grade mixer.
04:43This is my favorite microphone, so it stays up here with me, but the mics we let people use are in the back.
04:49A nice iPad in the dash.
04:53And all our switches have been moved, but the coolest thing,
04:57we pull our iPad out, we still have our radio controls. On a quick glance, that's the Solosolom H2.
05:04A very diverse,
05:07multi-control,
05:0986 speaker,
05:11mobile stage,
05:13sound quality, SPL built. A nice thing about the Solosolom H2 is it isn't slow.
05:18It's top speed, 105 miles an hour in this big, beautiful,
05:23heavy vehicle. I'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,
05:37unshipped from Match Pro Audio, you're looking at over $35,000
05:42just in a box.
05:44Best I can give you on prices.
05:46If we ever sold the H2, it would definitely have to be someone that was gonna use it for charity or use it for what
05:51we're using it for. It couldn't just go and be locked up in some garage.
05:55If someone offered me money to buy the Solosolom H2 without hesitation, it would be for a quarter million dollars.
06:01When it gets dark, the Solosolom H2 is bananas. We have won
06:07world titles for our LED lighting, interior and exterior. I'm a very humble person, but we
06:15made people change up their lighting game. We're very competitive.
06:18Yes, I go to the shows to compete and to win because I'm there representing my company at the same time.