Marcel Van Limbeek - Freelance Live Sound & Studio Sound Tutor

MARCEL VAN LIMBEEK: Freelance Live Sound & Studio Sound Tutor

Marcel van Limbeek started his career in 1987 as a live engineer for Dutch punk rock band Tröckener Kecks. In 1991 he moved to London to tour with Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, The Temptations, Big Country, The Beautiful South, Terrorvision and Tori Amos.

In 1995, after completing a year long world tour as monitor engineer for Tori Amos, Marcel was asked to engineer and mix Tori’s following album “Boys for Pele”. It was the start of a long, successful and ongoing partnership with Tori and her engineer/husband Mark Hawley.

In 1997 Marcel designed Martian Engineering, Amos’ and Hawley’s top-flight recording studio in Cornwall, where he and Mark engineered and mixed all of Tori’s subsequent albums and projects.

Together they have had numerous Billboard hits and Gold and Platinum records, plus several of Tori’s records have received Grammy nominations.

In between the making of Tori’s records, Marcel has continued to work as her monitor engineer. In 1999 he was awarded “Monitor Engineer of the Year” by Live! Magazine.

More recently as well as continuing to work with Tori Amos, Marcel has been continually in demand as the monitor engineer of choice for the following artists, Natalie Imbruglia, Jamelia, Estelle, Lucy Silvas, RyanDan and for the popular TV productions Last Choir Standing and Saturday Night Divas where he was on monitors for Leona Lewis, Celine Dion, Girls Aloud, Chaka Khan and Natasha Bedingfield.

Marcel has also been teaching for over 2 years on Alchemeas’ Audio Engineering Diploma program and is looking forward to extending that experience onto our new Live Sound Course.