Mono Anyone?

Thursday, May 24, 2007

No, not that Mono…

I’m no audio guru but it seems strange that Windows supports stereophonic, quadraphonic, etc but doesn’t support a monophonic speaker configuration. I know it sounds lame. Why on earth would you not want stereo? Well I have kids sleeping upstairs and I’m working in the basement trying to listen to Third Day in one ear and I’m losing half the song, so to speak.

Am I missing something?

8 Comments

You should be able to bring up "Speakers" in your audio control panel, click the "Balance" button, and pull it all the way to one side. That'll mix the stereo into one channel.

Ben Hollis - Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:02:58 AM
Ben: thanks for the comment. I assume you’re referring to XP. I’m using Vista and it doesn’t have the “balance” trackbar found on the “Volume Control” window on Windows XP nor have I found a similar setting...

Kenny Kerr - Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:22:08 AM
Right-click on the volume icon in the taskbar and choose Playback Devices, locate the appropriate entry and click Properties, then on the Levels tab click Balance.

jon - Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:03:26 AM
Jon is right, I was referring to Vista.

Ben Hollis - Thursday, May 24, 2007 9:08:34 AM
you could use a pair of good headphones...

otsdr - Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:10:46 PM
The Level tab for my speaker device doesn’t have anything related to balance. Perhaps my audio drivers aren’t up to the task... On different systems the Levels tab has different properties but none of my systems have a Balance option.

Kenny Kerr - Thursday, May 24, 2007 2:05:27 PM
jon: Nope. Check this out: http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/kennykerr/NoBalance.png

KennyKerr - Friday, May 25, 2007 2:33:53 PM
I give up then, sorry :)
Maybe uninstall/reinstall sound card, etc?

jon - Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:58:34 AM

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