00:00The reaction when we pull up in the Solar Sound Maze 2 is always a wow.
00:07We usually start with sound quality and just get used to that.
00:11We slam them on the bass.
00:26I'm Rafael Capone, the owner of the Solar Sound Studios Group.
00:30And here we have the Solar Sound H2.
00:44The amount of speakers in the Solar Sound 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 Solar Sound Studios.
01:07TI, Future, Justin Bieber, Rocco, Jeezy.
01:14The Solar Sound H2, we use it for marketing, promotion, brand awareness, charity, competition.
01:24Thank you, everybody, for showing up.
01:27I'm sure Jason's smiling.
01:28I missed the show.
01:29You probably already know.
01:30We average at least 100 car shows a year.
01:33That's not including meets.
01:35We average just over 250, sometimes 300 to under 300 trophies a year.
01:48I got something to say.
01:49I made the Solar Sound H2 because it isn't the first of its kind.
01:54And 1990, when I was still in the military, my first show vehicle was built.
01:55And that was my passion.
01:56Of course, I wanted to open up a recording studio, but I wanted to do both.
02:01So I built a show vehicle, it was called the Motown Soulia.
02:03It became world famous back then.
02:06So we got this in the end of 2014 and 30 days, we put all the LED lights on.
02:08It was made of the show.
02:09I didn't want to say something to say.
02:10I made the Solar Sound H2 because it isn't the first of its kind.
02:11And 1990, when I was still in the military, my first show vehicle was built.
02:15And that was my passion.
02:16Of course, I wanted to open up a recording studio, but I wanted to do both.
02:19So I built a show vehicle.
02:21It was called the Motown Soulia.
02:23It became world famous back then.
02:25So we got this in the end of 2014.
02:28of 2014. In 30 days, we put all the LED lights on it. We got a system going in it. We put
02:33the wheels on it. We put the graphics on it. Started doing shows, and it was cool. When
02:41building it, my main focus was sound quality. I wanted to be loud, but I wanted sound quality.
02:46I wanted to, what I hear in the studio, to hear on the road. All of our speakers are
02:49doing different things. Let's say we have 10 10s, 6 tweeters, 14 horns, 12 subs, 8 mid-based
03:03speakers, 8 mid-range speakers. We've been told up to 3 miles away, we've been heard.
03:10Sometimes on the weekend, I'll prepare for a show, and I'll be testing and tuning, and
03:14a cop pulled up. He was like, what are you doing? I was like, hey, I have a championship
03:20show tomorrow. I'm trying to set the system. He was like, I was two and a half miles away
03:24and just followed the sound to you. I was like, okay, I'll cut it off. He was such a nice
03:29cop. He said, I'm going to give you 15 more minutes. I'll cancel all the 911 calls, just
03:33complaining about the sound, and get your system right, and I hope you win. I took those 15
03:39minutes, and I set the system. When we did that show the next day, we came back with 12
03:44trophies, one show. Trying to get 86 speakers, 11 amplifiers, 3 miles of copper wiring, 3
03:53alternators, 7 batteries, DSP, and a vehicle this size. Everything had to be designed.
04:14Even our pillars, which are easily overlooked, are custom pillars that house tweeters. Of
04:28course, we have a red chrome wrap with the red chrome matching wheels, and then we have
04:32all of our microphone switches, so we can cut on up to five microphones and have five live
04:39mics going at the same time, because we have a studio-grade mixer. This is my favorite microphone,
04:45so it stays up here with me, but the mics we let people use are in the back. A nice iPad
04:51and a dash, and 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 Soul Asylum H2. A very diverse,
05:07multi-controlled, 86-speaker, mobile stage, sound quality, SPL build. The nice thing about the Soul Asylum H2 is,
05:17it isn't slow. It's top speed, 105 miles an hour, in this big, beautiful, heavy vehicle. I'll let you
05:25guys just think about what it could possibly cost, but we did buy the Hummer used for $40,000.
05:30And if you just take our amps and speakers in a box, unshipped from Match Pro Audio, you're looking
05:39at over $35,000 just in a box. Best I can give you on prices. If we ever sold the H2, it would
05:48definitely have to be someone that was going to use it for charity, or use it for what we're using
05:52it for. It couldn't just go and be locked up in some garage. If someone offered me money to buy the
05:57Soul Asylum H2, without hesitation, it would be for a quarter million dollars. When it gets dark,
06:02the Soul Asylum H2 is bananas. We have won world titles for our LED lighting, interior and exterior.
06:12I'm a very humble person, but we made people change up their lighting game. They're very competitive.
06:19Yes, I go to the shows to compete and to win, because I'm now representing my company at the same
06:24time. So we want them. And early.
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