TCC Radio is broadcast on 105.9 GRACE FM in London, Ont and is available as streamed content at www.tccradio.com Right now I’m working on getting the show setup for Podcast. I’m HOPEFUL that we’ll be able to do this shortly and that it will work. That will surely make it easier for people accross the country to keep up to date with the show.

Here are some technical tidbits about how the show is produced each week.

Research and writing are carried out from my computer running the Kubuntu distribution of Linux, using the KDE4.1 desktop. Yes I’m a lover of Linux. Every episode of TCC Radio is written in Open Office .

Up until April of this year all the audio development and production was carried out in Linux using the Audacity Multitrack Recording software package.  For the most part we have moved away from Audacity although Cory’s commentary is recorded in Audacity under WinXP in London Ont, and if you ever hear a tell-tale "BEEP!" on the show that was done in Audacity on Linux in Halifax NS.

Starting with the Absolute Truth series we began to use the Digital Audio Workstation software package SONAR 7 Producer Edition under the dreaded Windows Vista Home Premium.  My experience with Vista was at first VERY frustrating but after many many patches I have found it to be adequet for the purpose of recording the show.

The newest segment of TCC Radio is the Prayer Segment where we tell the listeners who we’re praying for this week. The musical backing track is currently being produced in Sony’s ACID but I hope to be shown how to do it inside of SONAR this week.

We have truly gone out of our way to spend money wisely. The advantages that Linux and Linux derived software is the incredible stability and customization possibilities along with an unbeatable price – free.  There are Digital Audio Workstations that are more comparable to SONAR available for Linux but the decision was made to use it because of the ease of production and the availability of local friendly support. So far it has been money well spent. There are things that just plain cost money and that it makes no sense to skimp on.

The computer the show is produced on is not top of the line but it is fairly beefy.  It’s an AMD 5600 X2 with 4GB of RAM and a TON of Harddrive space. It needs a faster Harddrive. The soundcard that does all the hard work of the show is a M-Audio 24/96 Audiophile, it’s a high quality card but is a few generations old.  The monitor speakers are very high quality (read expensive) but I can not remeber the name or model and I’m in an other location right now. 

Hopefully what you see here is that we have sought to build quality and not worried about bragging rights.  I am constantly learning about Audio Production and I can tell you it’s not as easy as you might think. 

I hope this was interesting!