"My job as a recording engineer is basically to make things sound pretty so the producer doesn't get fired."

• King was first nominated for a GRAMMY Award for 1997 for Best Engineered Album, Classical for his work on Herrmann: The Film Scores. He was nominated in the same category the following year for Mahler: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor.
   
• King received his first GRAMMY win for Best Classical Crossover Album for 2000 for Appalachian Journey, beginning a consecutive four-year streak of GRAMMY wins.
   
• In addition to his impressive work as an engineer, King is also an associate professor at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montreal.
   
• King has been a presenter and panelist at the AES Audio Engineering Society Convention, and he speaks at various university level recording programs on a regular basis.