Windows 10: Any way to pan audio left or right by app?

Is there any native Windows 10 function that would allow me to select which channel (Left and Right) that audio is sent to, on an app-by-app basis? For example, Youtube in the Left channel only and Discord in the Right?

If Windows 10 can't do this natively, is there a third party app that allows this?

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Audio keeps panning to the right

Hello Banaanilo,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that you are facing an issue with audio panning towards right in your headset. The issue could be occurring due to the Sound settings that might have got altered. We will look into this for you. Kindly check with the steps listed below and see
if it works:

Method 1

When the speaker levels are not Balanced, this issue could occur. Hence, I suggest you to check with the Left and Right balance of Speakers in Levels tab. To do that;

• Right click on the Speaker
  icon on the Taskbar and choose Sounds.
• In Playback tab, choose your Headphones and
  right click on it to select Properties.
  
• In there, click on Levels tab, and hit on Balance option.
  
• Make sure both L and R levels are balanced.
  

Once after making the changes, check if the issue persists. If it doesn't, kindly follow method 2.

Method 2

The issue could be occurring due to the outdated drivers that are installed on your machine. Hence we will try updating the drivers and check if the issue persists. To do that;

• Right click on the Start menu and click on
  Device Manager.
• Narrow down to Audio inputs and outputs and expand it.
• Right click on the driver and choose
  Update driver and proceed with the onscreen prompts.

Here's an article for your reference:
Update drivers in Windows 10


If you already have the best drivers installed on your device, kindly visit your PC manufacturer's website and install the latest drivers.

Please get back to us with the results, we are looking into this for you and we will be glad to assist you if the issue persists.

Regards,

Mala S

Microsoft Community - Moderator

 

Audio Panning to the left, I think it's Realtek HD Audio Manger?

Hey I'm new here so I hope this is the right place to be posting this?

I'm using Windows 10 and have been since it was released, my issue is audio is being panned to the left or the volume from the right is lower than the left. This is an issue that's been going on for a long while, I think it may be something to do with my Realtek HD audio manager. I know it isn't a hardware problem because it affects my speakers and headphones, when I rolled back the driver it replaced it with a HD Audio Driver and the panning issue was gone so I know it's not the audio jack itself. I have reinstalled Realtek HD Audio manager and made sure it's on the latest version. It does this through my rear audio ports as well as my from headphone jack, but not through my Blue Yeti's audio output, but Realtek doesn't recognise that as an audio output. I have also checked the balancing on everything in Playback Devices. I can pan the audio to the right by about half and the volume balances but it loses some of the quality and causes it to sound really muddy.

I was wondering if anyone knows a fix? The only thing I haven't tried is a Windows reinstall, which I'd really rather not right now as I have a lot of data and no real way to safely back it up.

 

Windows panning headphones to the right slightly when using USB Audio Interfaces

I have a huge issues in windows where it pans my audio very slightly to the right (20% or so) ear.

I was using my Hyper X cloud 2's until last week where I decided to get my condenser Mic and interface out.

I noticed immediately that the right ear was louder, or about 20% panned right.

I thought it was because i was using a headset so I tried my Beyer 770's. Same

I bought a new interface TWICE and the audio is still panned slightly right. This isn't an issues with My hyper X plugged into it's own usb contoller, no panning.

I tried

1. Asio drivers, No drivers, DDU'ing Realtek drivers
   
2. Different ports, motherboard options
   
3. 3 Pairs of Headphones
   
4. Tweaking windows settings, making sure balance was correct etc
   
5. 3 Different audio interfaces, UMC22, UMC204HD, Lexicon Alpha
   

Nothing works and it makes no sense. I'm using 1903