Yes, it’s correct that it’s a totally different sound system in the chapel than in the conference room. And in the chapel there is only one place to put the red cable and one place to put the white cable!
I guess I could do my own experiment here:
Plug the cord into AUX 1, turn on the system, say a few words into the microphone while recording on the MyCorder, put it onto the computer, convert to a WAV file, put it on a flash drive, and take it to the other computer to see if it sounds normal.
Do the same thing plugging it into AUX 2.
Anyway, I will now silence one track on all the conferences already done in Audacity and burn my CDs.
Thanks for all your help. I will let you know how my experiment turns out.
One more question. As I’ve been re-doing the conference editing, I’ve noticed that I only have one blue wave form until after the step to “normalize”, when two wave forms then appear. Is it possible to skip the “normalize” step? Or is that a second experiment that I should try? I only use “normalize” because that’s what the directions from the manual on-line said to do when editing…
Results of my two experiments:
It didn’t matter if I used AUX 1 or AUX 2 for the cable in the conference room stereo system. I used both (separately), recorded about 30 seconds, edited it in Audacity, and then converted each one to WAV, first without “normalizing” it and then “normalizing” it. The only difference was that the normalized ones were a bit louder.
I also used Audacity to edit two previously recorded conferences, and without normalizing them, exported them as a WAV file and burned a CD.
I used the same edited conferences, normalized them (and ended up then with two blue wave forms), deleted one wave form, copied and pasted the second wave into the former first wave’s spot, exported as WAV and burned a CD. The only difference in the CDs is that the normalized one is louder (as you’d expect). And it just takes the extra step that it didn’t USED to take.
I am still befuddled about what went wrong, but so glad that you folks came up with the answer for me. And maybe my “patron saint” came home from her sojourn in southern France!
Thanks so much for your help!! God bless you!!