Douglas McKinnie
Assistant Professor
Techniques of Recording
Applied Digital Audio
Office: Ezell 109A
Phone: 615.904-8554
Email: mckinnie@mtsu.edu
Until coming to MTSU in the summer of 2006, Dr. McKinnie split his time between Guildford, England and the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he is in charge of live sound for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer season. Douglas completed his PhD at the University of Surrey (UK), where his research at the Institute of Sound Recording included study of the influence of factors such as Spatial Envelopment and Localisation Accuracy on the perceived sound quality of surround-sound playback. Prior to this at McGill University he researched techniques for selecting critical audio materials for use in listening tests of low-bit-rate audio. Douglas was part of the panel that selected the critical materials used in tests of digital radio sound quality that were carried out for the (U.S.) Electronic Industries Association/National Radio Standards Committee and reported in 1997. This research was carried out at Canada’s Communications Research Centre in Ottawa and formed part of his thesis for the M.Mus degree from McGill’s Graduate Program in Sound Recording. Between the above activities and completion of a B.A. degree in Music from Case Western Reserve University he fit in three years as assistant audio engineer at the Cleveland Institute of Music, employment at Cleveland’s Commercial Recording Studios, and a summer as technical director for a music and drama troupe touring Mediterranean islands.
Douglas has engineering credits on CD’s from Telarc International and McGill records, and has been sound engineer for countless radio broadcasts of classical music. His surround mix for the BBC’s HDTV production of the ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream was used for BBC technology demonstrations.
