Easiest way to sync 2 audio tracks - detect beats?

I record bands using a camcorder and simultaneously record hi quality audio using a multi-track recorder.  My previous software automatically recognized that the audio tracks were similar and sync'ed them for me.  So far...  trying to sync my hi fidelity MP3 with the camcorder audio/video has been difficult.  I tried using "beat detect" but I don't see how to use that on 2 different audio tracks to sync them.  Once they are synched, I delete the camcorder audio and I am left with the same video with awesome audio.  What is the easiest/fastest way to sync 2 virtually identical audio tracks? 

Thanks for the WAV file tip.  I zoom in as far as I can (unless I'm missing something) and I rarely see the waveform.  The attached graphic shows one of the tracks as a very "low resolution" waveform (I see no way to accurately line up tracks using this waveform).  I hoped to use "detect beats" on both tracks to, at least, get close.  Is there a way to expand the waveforms vertically so I can actually see the waves and align them?  I'm trying to align Audio 1 and Audio 2.  This is what I see:

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