RAFAEL CAPONE: The reaction when we pull up in a Soul Asylum H2 is always a “wow”. We are using
sound quality and they just get used to that. We wham them on with the bass.
RAFAEL CAPONE: I’m Rafael Capone, the owner of the Soul Asylum Studios group and here we have
the Soul Asylum H2.
RAFAEL CAPONE: The amount of speakers in the Soul Asylum H2 is 86. We want sound quality at loud
natural volumes versus just blaring, hurting your ears loud.
RAFAEL CAPONE: We have had many clients that use Soul Asylum Studios; Tia, Future, Justin Bieber, Rocco,
Jay Z. The Soul Asylum H2, we use it for marketing, promotion, brand awareness, charity, competition.
RAFAEL CAPONE: We average at least 100 car shows a year - that’s not including meets. We average just over
250, sometimes 300 to under 300 trophies a year.
RAFAEL CAPONE: I made the Soul Asylum H2 because it isn’t the first of its kind. And 1991, when I was still in the
military, my first show vehicle was built and that was my passion. Of course I wanted to open up a recording
studio but I wanted to do both. So I built a show vehicle, it was called the Motown Souljah. It became world
famous back then. So we got this and at the end of 2014, in 30 days we put all the LED lights on it. We got
a system going in it, we put the wheels on it, we put the graphics on it. Started doing shows and it was cool.
When building it, my main focus was sound quality, I wanted it to be loud, but I wanted sound quality, I wanted
what I hear in the studio, to hear on the road. All of our speakers are doing different things. So let's say we have
ten tens, 36 tweeters, 14 horns, 12 subs, six, eight mid-bass speakers, eight midrange speakers.
We have been told up to three miles away, we have been heard because sometimes on the weekend I’ll prepare for
a show and I’ll be testing and tuning and a cop pulled up and he was like, “What are you doing?” And I was like,
“Hey, I have a championship show tomorrow, I am trying to set the system.” He was like, “I was two and a half
miles away and just followed the sound to you.” I said, “Okay I will cut it off,” and he was such a nice cop.
He said, “I’m going to give you 15 more minutes, I will cancel all the 911 calls just complaining about the sound
and get your system right and I hope you win.” And I took those 15 minutes and I set the system and we did that
show the next day, we came back with 12 trophies - one show!
RAFAEL CAPONE: Trying to get 86 speakers, 11 amplifiers, three miles of copper wiring, three alternators,
seven batteries, DSP and a vehicle this size, everything had to be designed.
RAFAEL CAPONE: Even our pillars, which are easily overlooked are custom pillars that house tweeters. Of
course we have a red chrome wrap with a red chrome matching wheels and then we have all of our microphone
switches. So 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.
RAFAEL CAPONE: This is my favorite microphone. So it stays up here with me but the mics we let people use are
in the back. A 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. On a quick glance, that's the Soul Asylum H2, a very diverse multi control 86
speaker, mobile stage, sound quality SPO build. A nice thing about the Soul Asylum H2 is it isn't slow. Its top
speed 105 miles an hour and this big beautiful heavy vehicle. I will let you guys just think about what it could
possibly cost but we did buy the Hummer used for $40,000. And if you just take our amps and speakers in a
box unship from MMATS Pro Audio, you look at over $35,000 just in a box. That's all I can give you on prices.
If we ever sold H2, definitely it would have to be someone that was going to use it for charity or use it
for what we are using it for, couldn’t just go and be locked up in some garage. If someone offered me money
to buy the Soul Asylum H2, without a hesitation it would be for a quarter million dollars.
RAFAEL CAPONE: When it gets dark, the Soul Asylum H2 is bananas. We have won world titles for our LED lighting,
interior and exterior. I am a very humble person but we made people change up their lighting game. We are very
competitive. Yes I go to the shows to compete and to win because I’m there representing my company at the
same time. So we want those trophies and earn those wins.