Tonehammer and Microhammer® is owned by Academy Award Winning Composer, Troels Folmann (the guy with fake photoshopped beard) and TEC Award Winning Sound Designer, Mike Peaslee (the guy with a real mullet and 'stache). Tonehammer is specialized in creating unique- and powerful virtual instruments for feature, tv- and video games composers. The T in Tonehammer stands for totally awesome and we stand by all of our products with our exclusive "Thumbs-Up Guarantee"!
Troels Folmann is a multi-award winning (British Academy Award, Mix Foundation / TEC Award G.A.N.G/GDC, D3 etc) composer, specialized in epic- and emotional scoring blending orchestration and electronica in various ways. Troels also has a background as a Ph.D. scholar in interactive scoring for games specialized in creating adaptive types of interactive scores, which is a topic he can easily bore you with for several hours. Troels is also an instrument- and sound collector. Some of his latest works includes:
Selected Trailers:
- 10.000 BC (feature)
- ABC World News (TV-show)
- All My Child (TV-show)
- Americas Funniest Home Videos (TV-show)
- Americas Got Talent 2009-2010 (TV-show)
- Americas Most Wanted (TV-show)
- Assassins Creed II (game)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum (game)
- Beyond A Reasonble Doubt (feature)
- Caprica (television)
- Casino Royale (feature)
- CBS Morning (TV-show)
- Celebrity Fit Club (television)
- CBS On-Air Promos (television)
- Damages (television)
- Darksiders (game)
- Deadly Waters (television)
- Defendor (feature)
- Dr. Who (television)
- ESPN Nation Wide Year in Review (television)
- Extreme Makeover (television)
- Flash Forward (television)
- General Hospital (television)
- Good Morning America (television)
- Greys Anatomy (TV-show)
- Halloween II (feature)
- Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (feature)
- HBO Pay-Per-View Promos (television)
- Honda (commercial)
- Jimmy Kimmel (TV-show)
- Kings (television)
- Mythbusters (television)
- NBC promos (television)
- Nascar Racing / Nascar Raceday (TV-Shows)
- Nascar Promos (TV-show)
- Nightline (TV-show)
- One Life to Live (TV-show)
- Oprah (TV-show)
- Pawning History (TV-show)
- Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (feature)
- Persons Unknown (TV-show)
- PGA Tour Playoffs for Fedex Cup – Official Film (television/feature)
- Pirates of the Caribean 3 (feature)
- Saturday Night Live (television)
- Shrek The Final Chapter (feature)
- Sony Music (sound logos)
- So You Think You Can Dance (TV-show)
- Spiderman 3 (feature/game)
- Spike TV promos (television)
- Storm Stories (television)
- Tekken 6 (game)
- The Smurfs (feature)
- Tomb Raider Anniversary (game)
- Tomb Raider Legend (game)
- Tomb Raider Underworld (game)
- Transformers II Trailer (feature)
- Triangler (feature)
- The Illusionist (feature)
- True Blood (television)
- Twilight Saga: Eclipse (feature)
- The Last Mimzy (feature)
- Ultimate Factories (TV-show)
- Universal Music (sound logos)
- Valkyrie (feature)
- X-Men 3 (feature)
- X-Treme Adrenaline (television)
- WWF (television)
- WWF Smackdown (television)
- What Not to Wear (television)
Recent Game scores:
- Tomb Raider Underworld (2008)
- Tomb Raider Anniversary Edition (2007)
- Tomb Raider Legend (2006)
- Project SnowBlind (2005)
- Defender of the Crown (2004)
Click here to visit the official website of Troels Folmann
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Mike Peaslee has been working as a video game sound designer for over 8 years, specializing in original in-game content creation, cinematic sound design and mixing, trailers and other marketing-related content, composition, field recording and foley arts, voice over editing, voice directing and acting, localization, audio engineering, cross-platform content support, custom studio/equipment design and sound library management. He studied radio broadcasting, journalism and recording engineering. However, he’s a high school and community college drop-out. For awhile, he wrote for an adult magazine. Then he worked as a music journalist. His greatest journalistic achievement was interviewing Vanilla Ice. He was also originally a plumber for a number of years, which is where he gets a lot of his weirder instrument-building ideas from. Yes, it was probably from all of the lead, solvent and raw sewage fumes. His work includes:
- Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos 2008):
- Sound designer, cinematic and trailer sound design and mixing, vo editing, combat voice-over direction.
- Tomb Raider: Anniversary Edition (Eidos 2007)
Sound designer, cinematic sound design and mixing, vo editing, combat voice-over direction. - Tomb Raider: Legend (Eidos 2006):
2007 Mix Foundation Tec award winner for Sound Designer and Post Re-Recording Mixer. BAFTA, GDC Choice, GANG Nominations for Best Audio. Sound designer, cinematic sound design and mixing, vo editing, combat voice-over direction. - Battlestations Midway (2006):
Voice-over direction, vo editing - 25-To-Life (2006):
Cinematic sound design, vo editing. (One of the worst games of 2006, prompted a lawsuit by Jack Thompson and calls for retail boycotts by a number of US government officials. “This videogame is an abomination,” Sen. Charles Schumer, D – NY) - Project Snowblind (2005):
Audio lead, 2nd composer, Sound designer, cinematic sound design and mixing, audio engineer, vo editor, combat voice-over direction. - Life at Bay (Lightmotif Productions, 2004, short film):
Composition - Whiplash (2003):
In-game and cinematic sound designer and mixer, audio engineer and vo editor. (Criticized by British Parliament and various UK animal rights groups for being somehow both for and against cruel and inhumane scientific animal testing.) - Legacy of Kain: Defiance (2003):
assistant audio engineer, additional sound design - Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen II (2002):
Audio engineer, assistant sound designer, cinematic sound design and mixing, additional composition - Mad Dash (2001):
Audio engineer, sound designer, cinematic sound design and mixing, vo editor. - Soul Reaver II (2001):
Assistant audio engineer