I'm exploring the difference between these connections to help you understand why these connections are not always interchangable.
PRODUCTION NOTES
Recording Mic: Samson Q2U (USB connection) and pop filter.
Recording device : Dell G7 Windows 10 Laptop with Audacity.
Recording location: Dining table. No pillowfort
Recording format: WAV (24 bit stereo - mixed down to mono)
Editing app (and EQ) : Audacity
Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com
Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz
I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock.
Episode art: Canva
Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file
