Right channel headset speaker audio very feable

Recently I noticed that sometimes when I boot into my Arch linux, I find the audio very much faint in the right channel of the headset. The left channel is loud and clear. I tried with another good headset. Even with that the right channel audio is very low. My laptop has two audio jacks for headsets. The behaviour is the same in both the audio jacks.
However, there are no issues with the laptop inbuilt speakers. The problem only comes with a headset. I have done 'speakertest' to make sure that it is not the issue with the media player I am using.
The problem will disappear when I restart my machine. But will suddenly come in some random day. And I will have to restart to get that fixed. Is there a way to fix it once and for all?

... any way to "unlock" the left channel?
Head phones or external speakers.
The "latest version"
b does
provide sound to both left and right side through the head phones jack or via the USB port if you use USB speakers.
You are correct that Apple keeps one speaker quiet on the laptop to reduce speaker feedback to the microphone given the physical size of Mac laptops.

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Headset speaker very low sound

i've been using my iphone 4s for 3 months now and i don't have any problem in these 3 months. now the headset speaker is very low, whenever i spoke to somebody i turned on the loudspeaker, sound is there but it's too low, this happens after upgrading to a new software IOS 5.1. please help!

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Right channel distortion/crackling when connected to compute

Hi,
When I connect my ipod to the computer (even if its unmounted) the right channel of the audio out crackles and stuff, why?
This occurs on my iBook, and Dual MDD G4
Grounding loop?...If so, quite disappointed, could someone please confirm.
Method:
Connect iPod nano to computer using the USB cable.
Plug in headphones
(the above can be done in any order)
Place headphones in ear.
Songs don't have to be playing, just headphones need to be plugged in.
I have tried with grounded speakers and have no problem.

As you probably know that the tailpiece is grounded along with the pickups and tone and volume pots. We know that it works because when you touch the tail piece the crackle stops.
I had this crackle once when in a hurry I used a speaker cable. But seeing you tried two cables with the same result we need to look elsewhere. The only thing I can think of is interferences from a light, electric motor or cell phone or a bad ground.
Make sure your mac is plugged into a properly grounded wall outlet. If you use a power strip plug into a wall outlet and see if it goes away. Also turn off lights and cell phone. Move your interface away from your mac and powerfully speakers.

Can I playback in both channels with my audio interface?

From what I've found so far I'm afraid the answer is already "no" but I have to ask for myself.
When I record into QuickTime movie (not Pro) using my Alesis IO|14 Firewire interface, it only plays back on the left channel.
Is there ANY way to get it to play back on both channels? (Or is this a sneaky way of urging us to upgrade to QT Pro?)
I'm assuming the audio quality of my M-Audio Nova condenser mic is better than my iMac's built-in mic, which is why I'd really like to do this. I don't even need true stereo, just both channels playing back.
(QT 10.1, on Lion)
Thanks.

The mic and interface record just fine into GarageBand, either as stereo or mono, and plays back out of both channels with the same setup, so I think the problem is with QT.
I don't find any kind of switch like that in the Hardware Direct Monitoring software for the Alesis, but I'll investigate further.
As I mentioned, I've searched this and other forums and it seems like this is just how QT is set up. But I was hoping for some sort of solution.
As previously indicated, I am not familiar with your IO device, so let me ask a few questions here.
1) Is the Nova mic you mentioned mono or stereo?
2) If mono, are you using two of them?
3) If mono and you are not using a pair of mics, does the input interface hardware have the ability to blend left and right (mic 1 and mic 2) input channels?
4) If mono, you are not using a pair of mics, and the device has no ability to blend left and right channels, are you you using an adapter cable to input a split signal to both input channels of the device?
If you are using a mono mic to input a signal to only one channel of the input device and are not/cannot blend this signal to both channels before output via the Firewire cable, then its sounds like your system is working normally and correctly. Basically, the Firewire audio is sent to the QT app as received from the Firewire device and recorded as is in stereo. I.e., if the left channel is active with the mic signal and the right channel is empty, then the audio is recorded only to the left channel and the right channel records the "nil" signal/nothing. On the other hand, GarageBand is an audio editor designed specifically to blend, pan, duck, filter, and/or otherwise taylor audio content as desired by the user. (I.e., which includes the ability to re-channel a single mono audio channel to both channels of a stereo track during the recording process which the QT app can't do.) In short, both apps are doing what they are designed to do as they were designed to do it. As such and as previously noted you have three basic options here.
1) You force the IO device to send stereo or two-channel mono audio to your Mac by using two separate mics, use a single stereo mic with dual channel audio output, using an adapter cable to split the single mono mic audio output line into two separate lines to be plugged into both channels of your IO device, or you can apply/blend the active channel to left and right Firewire output channels within the device if it has this capability.
2) You can use GarageBand to do create and export audio recordings instead of the QT app, or
3) You can purchase QT 7 Pro in order to fix your left channel problem post recording by simply applying the left channel audio to both left and right channels within the audio track so it will play as you want in any media player on your computer.
(Actually, there is a fourth option if you are using an external amplifier for playback, which is to simply use the output amplifier to accomplish re-channelization during playback rather than actually fixing the media file with QT 7 Pro.)

Splitting left and right channel

I need to split the left and right channels of the audio output. I have a stereo cable from my new HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC, running Windows 7 Home Premium, to an amp that takes the channels separately. The amp allows me to control the volume for the channels separately. This does not work on my new laptop. I get both channels on both ends of the cable.
I have an older HP G60 Notebook PC, running Windows 7 Home Premium, and the same cable and same amp does just what I need.
Is there a way to configure the audio out port in my new PC so it works like the audio out port on my old PC?
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Hello - what is the best way to swap left and right channels on a master?
If I use the direction mixer and reverse the phase is that effectively what's
happening?
No, not at all. Reversing the phase will not swap anything, it'll just reverse the phase.
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Power Mac G5 Audio is outputting only the right channel

I have an audio problem with my PowerPc Audio card, I presume. It is only outputting the right channel. I have a set of computer speakers and when I go into System Preferences and move the balance slider, there is only sound coming from the right channel. Absolutely nothing from the left.
I found this problem when editing in FCP and needing to do a split track with VO on channel 1 and Nats and music on channel 2. I could see the meters showing the audio output from channel 1 but no sound coming through the Mac's left channel output.
Also, I have a DeckLink extreme card in my system and when I test the L-R channel output I get the same problem. I do not know if the decklink is somehow using the Mac audio card for help with its output. I would think that it is using its own hardware for generating the audio output from the card.
Hardware issue? Time for a Mac Genius repair? Don't know if there is any workarounds or fixes before I go that route. Any help would be appreciated.
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No I didn't but I run my Mac's output into an analog mixer and then out to my speakers.
When outputting through channel 2 only, both speakers work, yet when I pan to channel 1 the sound drops out. As I pan from full channel 2, where both speakers are up full, you can hear the sound fade out.
Also, I got the Deck Link card to work through my mixer. The L and R channels are outputting through separate inputs in the mixer and work independently and correctly. I even changed out the mini stereo cable just in case and still no left channel out of the Mac.
Very weird! I've even repaired and defragged my system disk in case it is some sort of corrupted code. Just grasping at straws before I take it to a Mac Genius.
Thanks for writing. I appreciate any and all suggestions.
Doug

Noob.. GB '08 on MBP Won't Record Right Channel Audio

Hi, I'm a noob to Macs so please forgive me if I've missed something obvious.
I wanted to do some light, goofing around with GB '08 V 4.1.2 with my Roland V-Drums. The Roland V-Drum module output uses two, 1/4" jacks (a "Left" and "Right" channel) which I have coming together in a "Y"-shaped stereo adapter, plugged into my MBP (Latest Leopard - bought new last week - 4 gigs of RAM, updated all OS & GB files 3 days ago) and for the life of me, I cannot get anything to play in the right-channel audio *but only when recording in GB* - otherwise both audio channels work fine.
My Roland V-Drum unit can do mono by simply using one of the two designated Output channels; then I use a mono plug instead of a stereo. Even then I only get my drums recorded on the left side!
I've gone into every obvious configuration setting I can find - both in System Preferences>Sounds and those within GB '08, but for the life of me, cannot find where I've set something wrong. I've swapped cables and adapters. I've also tried speaking into a microphone plugged in and the same thing happens when recording in Garageband - only the left channel gets any sound. If you pan the result to the right, all the sound just goes away.
Anyone have any suggestions to try? Is this a bug? TIA...

Snud wrote:
Thanks to all. - But Matt, I know you just solved the "built-in stuff not working problem"! You certainly win whatever Grand Prize goes along with diagnosing "Drummer Dysfunctional Disorder". Your suggestion most certainly works with the built-in stuff - Thank you!
Your welcome and... I'm pretty sure the award for curing Drummer Dysfunctional Disorder is a combination Nobel Prize + sneakers with the Nobel logo embroidered onto it, which is really great since I could use a new pair. I'm only grateful that this didn't occur last year because I would feel terribly guilty if my own award interfered with Al Gore's since, as I have read, he is also thrilled by the complementary sneakers.
Now see if Apple was really smart, they'd have the *opening screen* of GB ask: "Are you a drummer?" and if you answer "Yes", well that would take us to a much simpler version! Hmm... Perhaps I could design it for them - or be the "Test Monkey". But I digress...
I'm guessing your humility is not exactly warranted... but perhaps an even easier version could be developed and named something like, I don't know, iTunes?
I'm happy to report that, thanks to you Matt, my stream of obscenities is not only causing the LED to register but... I can *record them in stereo* too! I'll try your final suggestion after I sleep on it. Today, the built-in mic... tomorrow, the world!
Words to the wise! (particularly when recorded in stereo and including obscenities)
(I still hope it's ok to leave this as "unanswered" until I try recording my drums instead of the built-in mic, tomorrow)
I suppose there's a sort of philosophical appeal to leaving all questions unanswered: for what is knowledge, and what can we truly know? But now I digress...
So back to your Garagebanding.
The thing is, if you can get your internal mic to work just fine, stereo and everything, that lets you know that at least your system is working, and that there isn't a bug that's crawled into it and is messing things up. Knowing that, you can narrow down your search for the culprit. If the internal mic works just fine, and the software works just fine, what is it about your original setup that's broken?
I would go back to the notion that the computer never received both channels of your output (its input) to begin with, and that perhaps the physical plug is either mono or, by virtue of its shape, not able to properly seat itself in order to make contact on both channels. That's just a guess, but at least the search for the culprit has been narrowed down to likely suspects.
(One possibly helpful distinction: a mono signal can record to both channels through a stereo minijack, but perhaps if the minjack itself is mono - or not connecting to both channels of the input - the signal (stereo or otherwise) might be restricted to one side?)

Very weak Right Channel output

Looks like this is a growing hardware defect on the iPod Classics. This leaves me wondering how long Apple will ignore this before resolving the problem or do their sales level leave them unmotivated to even discuss it.
I have the 160GB model, about 15 months old. The right channel has gone VERY weak.
I am using the standard factory headset which works fine in any other device so the headset is ruled out.
The headset jack in the iPod is clean and makes good contract with the headset and persists when connected via the base connector (see below), so the headset jack is ruled out.
I can connect the iPod to a portable docking port that connects to the iPod via the connector at the base of the headset. The right channel is also weak when playing music out the portable dock speakers. So, this rules out all connectors.
Next, I tried changing the Equalizer settings across all personalities (Rock, Jazz, etc) with no change in the problem.
Next, I tried doing a master reset (Press and hold the Play/Pause and Menu buttons simultaneously until the Apple/iPod logo appears). No joy. Problem
Finally, the Factory Reset was tried using iTunes (which only seems to erase the hard disk and reload all my music).
None of this has worked. Either there was a bad firmware update from Apple, which they will never admit to by policy obviously, or there is a hardware defect in the latest design of the iPod Classic. There are far too many people posting this problem on the net for this to be an isolated case.
Has anyone found a resolution to this problem (WITHOUT armchair guessing)?
Thanks.

- If it works with other headphones the try inserting/removing the plug a dozen times or so. Also try cleaning out/blowing out the headphone jack
- Next Try the standard fixes to rule out a software problem.
- Reset. Nothing was lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iPod.
If still problem that points to a problem with the headophone jack.

I would like to transfer old reel-to-reel tapes to an iMac. There are different recordings on the left and right channel of the tapes. When I connect the tape deck to the Mac, I get one recording on the left, the other on the right speaker. What to do?

I was about to transfer some music from a reel-to-reel machione to my Mac. There are different sound recordings on the left and right channels. When I connect with RCA cables and Y-connector, I hear one recording from the left speaker, another from the right side. How do I record only one side, but hear it from both speakers?
Detlef

You don't say what end, or connectors are plugged into what. I'm assuming the RCA connectors are on the reel-to-reel end. Since the tape has two different mono recordings, one on each track, you of course only want one at a time during playback. Otherwise, the Mac (or any recording setup) can only treat it as a stereo recording with the standard Left-Right tracks.
1) There are multiple ways to connect different types of cables to get a mono signal down to a stereo output at the Mac. Here's one way.
2) Plug any RCA cable (single cable or stereo) into only the right or left RCA output of the reel-to-reel.
3) On the other end of the RCA cable, plug in an adapter like this. That will feed the single RCA output into a mono 1/8" plug.
4) Then plug that adapter into this. That turns the 1/8" mono signal into a "stereo" output with the same single track audio being fed to the Mac on both the left and right channels.
5) Record either the left or right output of the reel-to-reel. Rewind the tape and switch the RCA connector on the reel-to-reel to the right channel (if you started with the left) and record that mono signal as stereo.
Or, avoid all of this hardware mumbo-jumbo in the first place and do this:
1) Record the audio just the way you have it. Two different recordings, one on each channel.
2) Copy the audio recording to a new name and open it in your editor.
3) Highlight the left track and copy/paste it into the right track. Presto! Mono recording of the left track on both channels. Save the recording.
4) Repeat, only copy/pasting the right track into the left track and save the second recording.

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Please read the warranty paperwork that came w/your computer.
You have 14 days to return the computer w/no questions asked.
You have 90 days of FREE phone tech support on top of your standard 1 year warranty unless you also purchased AppleCare which gives you an additional 2 years of coverage plus FREE phone support.
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Audio input issue - No stereo... Right channel only.

Hi
First to thank you for taking the time to read and consider this if you do - any help in this would be hugely appreciated
Ok - I'll try to make this as concise as poss but it needs some explanation:
I'm home-recording hobbyist musician. One of the things I would very much like to use the iMac for is to back up old four-track tape recordings, recording them as wav or mp3 as the case maybe and saving them to my hdd. Easy right? Apparently not, so far... let me explain:
On the tape recorder there is only an RCA stereo out (red and white, left and right). The very first thing I did when I got the iMac was download Audacity (the audio software), hooked up a stereo lead to the RCA outs on the tape recorder, and ran it into the line-in port on the iMac, using the 1/8" jack.
Now, sound came in, but only the right channel. The left channel was completely dead (ie when I panned the audio to the left, or if there was a sound in the mix that was only in the left channel, it was absent).
Since then I've bought Logic Pro and and an audio interface and this presents the EXACT same problem... Nothing in the left channel. (please note, I am aware you can "fake" stereo by setting a channel-strip to "mono" so that there is sound on both sides, but get this - it only splits the right channel in two - so you still don't have the left channel or genuine stereo signal frustratingly)
It should be noted that stereo sound is not a general problem on the system. Stereo output is perfect (ie on itunes, cds, online etc - or if I'm using softsynths in Logic for instance) it is solely an AUDIO INPUT issue.
Needless to say I've explored all options in sys prefs to no avail.
It should also be noted that I have also tested the actual output of the tape recorder and used the same leads to line into a home stereo system no problems.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about or how this could be resolved? I am even open to suggestions for peripheral equipment, sofware additions etc - any questions at all, just ask.
Thanks again, any input would be welcome.
EDIT: I also posted this in the general iMac forum. Posting here for people w specific audio knowledge thanks!

Pancenter, thanks once again.
Sorry about delay replying - have had an internet outage here just to add to my woes haha.
Anyway, the good news is that I think I've cracked it:
After updating the OS per your suggestion, uninstalling both Audacity and the m-audio (profire 610), and lastly resetting defaults on sys audio midi prefs I was still experiencing this problem - just on a line-in to Garageband. Pure frustration.
So eventually I just elected (in lieu of chucking the hardware out the nearest window lol) to do a cold re-install of the OS (erase and install option, backup hdd done). As I bought the iMac in January the OS is 10.5.5 I think.
After install, before doing anything else at all, I opened Garageband, set up an audio track and set input prefs to Line in Stereo 1/2 etc, and hooked up the tape unit via rca and the line-in port. The result? Perfect 2-channel stereo.
My personal theory is that the problem was created by the audio interface installation - an m-audio "profire 610" - Tho Audio interfaces are a frickin minefield anyway between Macs and PCS, chipset compatabilities, dodgy beta drivers, worthless gadget-hawking etc etc... I also realised that while my first original attempt was on Audacity I had already installed the profire unit just immediately before (but didn't use it). I doubt it was Logic which is designed specifically for the mac - I feel this theory might be proven when I reinstall these.
So there you go - get the Audio interface right it seems.. And I've got stereo audio.
Thanks for your help and input Pancenter - much obliged.
Peace.

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I found a temporary solution :
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2) Go to this directory :
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Hmm. I think someone more technically-inclined with audio could help you out here. I tried recording audio on my eMac with QuickTime Player (I'm not sure if you need QuickTime Pro to do this, otherwise I would suggest you try the same thing). I have a similar experience as you. The QuickTime A/V window (control-K) informs me that the audio balance is shifted completely to the right channel (rather than left, as you observe in Sound Studio). And there is no way to adjust this, it is also "greyed out". This QuickTime recording is through the built-in microphone on my eMac. Might there exist (pricier) external microphones that are specifically capable of stereo recording? Or perhaps our eMacs aren't capable of stereo recording, at least without hardware modifications. I don't know. Clearly, I'm ignorant about this. Perhaps there is a Discussion going on somewhere else around here that is more Audio-specific?

Right channel headset speaker audio very feable

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