World’s Loudest Hummer Boasts 86 Speakers
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.
03:09He was like, what are you doing? I was like, heck, I have a championship show tomorrow.
03:13I'm trying to set the system. He 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. He was such a nice cop.
03:21He said, I'm gonna give you 15 more minutes.
03:23I'll cancel all the 911 calls, just complaining about the sound, and get your system right, and I hope you win.
03:29I was like, that's great.
03:31So I'm like, okay, I'll cut it off.
03:33calls just complaining about the sound and get your system right and I hope you
03:37win and I took those 15 minutes and I set the system and we did that show the
03:42next day we came back with 12 trophies one show. Trying to get 86 speakers, 11
03:49amplifiers, 3 miles of copper wiring, 3 alternators, 7 batteries, DSP and a
03:57vehicle this size. Everything had to be designed.
04:03So even our pillars which are easily overlooked are custom pillars that house
04:27tweeters. Of course we have a red chrome wrap with the red chrome matching wheels
04:31and then we have all of our microphone switches so we can cut on up to five
04:35microphones and have five live mics going at the same time because we have a
04:41studio grade mixer. This is my favorite microphone so it stays up here with me
04:46but the mics we let people use are in the back. A nice iPad in the dash and all
04:54our switches have been moved but the coolest thing we pull our iPad out we
04:59still have our radio controls. On a quick glance that's the Soul Asylum H2.
05:04A very diverse multi control 86 speaker mobile stage sound quality SPL build. A
05:15nice thing about the Soul Asylum H2 is it isn't slow. It's top speed 105 miles
05:20an hour in this big beautiful heavy vehicle. I'll let you guys just think
05:26about what it could possibly cost but we did buy the Hummer used for $40,000
05:31and if you just take our amps and speakers in a box unshipped from Match
05:38Pro Audio you're looking at over $35,000 just in a box. Best I can give you on
05:45prices. If we ever sold the H2 it would definitely had to be someone that was
05:49gonna use it for charity or use it for what we're using it for. It couldn't just
05:53go and be locked up in some garage. If someone offered me money to buy the Soul
05:57Asylum H2 without hesitation it would be for a quarter million dollars. When it gets dark the Soul
06:03Asylum H2 is bananas. We have won world titles for our LED lighting interior and
06:11exterior. I'm a very humble person but we made people change up their lighting
06:17game. We're very competitive. Yes I go to the shows to compete and to win because
06:22I'm there representing my company at the same time. So we want the win. And earn it.