Marcel Van Limbeek - Audio & Mix Engineer

"No Matter how experienced and established you are in the music industry, you can never afford to stop learning as technology progresses at an ever faster pace.

Alchemea is a great place where you learn the latest production technologies. The staff are very qualified and have a lot of "real world"experience. Because the students come from various disiplines of audio engineering, I found I learned a lot from them too. This place keeps you on your toes! Very refreshing. I am able to directly introduce new learned skills into my current project which makes me look better. I can't wait to come back and do another course."

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.

As can be seen in his discography, they have had numerous Billboard hits and Gold and Platinum records, plus several of Tori’s records 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.

Other artists Marcel has worked with in the studio include The Devlins, on their critically acclaimed records “Consent” and “Waves”, Damien Rice, Pet, Layla Astley and Leonna Naess.

Marcel is driven by his passion for music, technology, high-quality audio and attention to detail. Altough an established audio engineer in more than one field, Marcel is now gaining recognition as a world-class mixing engineer.

Using his ears and dealing with people are his strengths. Mixing music is his love and speciality. Marcel owns a large collection of high-end studio equipment.

DISCOGRAPHY

- 1996 Tori Amos - Boys for Pele Atlantic - platinum - billboard peak#2 - 1 grammy nomination

- 1996 Pet - Pet Atlantic Records

- 1998 Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel Atlantic - platinum - billboard peak#5 - 2 grammy nominations

- 1999 Tori Amos - To Venus and Back Atlantic - platinum - billboard peak#12 - 2 grammy nominations

- 2001 Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls Atlantic - billboard peak#4 - 2 grammy nominations

- 2002 The Devlins - Consent Nettwerk Records - gold

- 2002 Tori Amos - Scarlet’s Walk Epic - gold - billboard peak#7

- 2003 Tori Amos - Tales of a Librarian Atlantic - billboard peak#40

- 2004 The Devlins - Waves Nettwerk Records

- 2004 Tori Amos - Welcome to Sunny Florida concert dvd Epic

- 2004 Tori Amos - The Beekeeper Epic - gold - billboard peak#5

- 2006 Tori Amos - Fade to Red video collection dvd


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