Marcel Van Limbeek – Studio & Live 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. Marcel has been teaching our Studio Sound Diploma students for over 4 years and is now involved in the ongoing development and delivery of our Live Sound Diploma.

About Marcel

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 artists including Natalie Imbruglia, Jamelia, Estelle, Lucy Silvas, RyanDan. Popular TV productions he has worked on include Last Choir Standing and Saturday Night Divas, where he was on monitors for Leona Lewis, Celine Dion, Girls Aloud, Chaka Khan and Natasha Bedingfield.