Keeping mono channels separated to their respective (L) & (R) channels

[EverStaR]

It appears that Windows 10 likes to Mix a little of the Left Channel into the right channel and visa versa and not easily let you keep each track confined to one ear.

I need a soundcard or way to distinctly keep windows from doing this. Apparently if you have the ability to select 2 Channel speaker for the out put it will allow the output to left and right speakers to truly remain separated. The problem though is if you want to record anything, even with a pro audio interface, it's going to mix the channels together.

This blurb here speaks a little more to the problem, however again it only addresses Output.
https://superuser.com/questions/1118839/pc-not-differen...

HELP please!

Windows 10 Pro
Using Camtasia Pro
Same situation with Audigy

Two distinct mono channels via hardware routed to a stereo jack via an RCA cable with one radios audio on the red plug and the others on the white plug

Surround has been turned Off
Card has been set to Direct
There is not a two channel option

I have tried 3 sound cards
Soundblaster Z
Soundblaster XFi USB
Soundblaster 5G USG
They all seem to only have Dolby 5 and Direct as minimums, but again this is only for the output.

I have a situation where I compare Ham radios, one on the left channel and one on the right so the people of watch and listen to my recordings can hear the difference in various situations and how each radio handles that situation and thus need to be able to keep the channels separated.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Globulator]

Have you tried recording?
I'd be surprised it it mixed on the way in.

Looks to me like you'll have to tell (the) Win10 (audio driver) that you are not using headphones, I don't think there's anything special about the OS, it will be some product manager overseeing the sound driver code at Cypress, Intel or somewhere deciding that's just what you needed.

Sorry to not be any more help, I'd categorise this as a sound driver issue.
Obviously a USB sound card will be different: and hopefully free of the issue.

 

[wwenze]

I would have pointed my finger at Windows, however Creative soundcards are also full of "features" and they like to have some of them enabled by default upon driver installation. Have you tried onboard sound?

 

[EverStaR]

The onboard audio is noisy and has been disabled, I don't disagree that sound blaster may be particularly or entirely at fault. But I have gone through and disabled everything in their control panel.

 

[Globulator]

Have you experimented with a cheap test option like this?

USB2.0 Audio Headset Headphone Earphone Mic Microphone Jack Converter Adapter HT

just to try a generic solution?

 

[jiiteepee]

Have you tried with ASIO or WASAPI Exclusive Mode?
I'm using VB-Audio's Voicemeeter Banana (VAC) for all audio I/O (WDM, KS, WASAPI or ASIO mode selected there for playback). There are two versions of Voicemeeter software available:
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter Banana

 

[EverStaR]

Have you tried with ASIO or WASAPI Exclusive Mode?
I'm using VB-Audio's Voicemeeter Banana (VAC) for all audio I/O (WDM, KS, WASAPI or ASIO mode selected there for playback). There are two versions of Voicemeeter software available:
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter
VB-Audio VoiceMeeter Banana

I did setup Banna yesterday, however, it's still appears to mix the channels. Each radio feeds a seperate USB Sound Blaster Card and I but each sound blaster as its own input in Banna and a VB Cable as the output, but still mixed. Voicemeter does give me a little more control and for now I am manually using it to turn off one card and then the other so user can compare, but, it's not really what I wanted which is one source in one ear and the other in the other ear at the same time.

To answer someone else's question, yes I have tried recording with audacity and even with one sound card off, there is audio on both channels despite it being a mono source.

Driver, ASIO or other matters not as well.

So very frustrating... thanks for the help everyone, really appreciate it! Perhaps I just need a soundcard that allows for the channels to remain split.. I am trying a DAC today, maybe that will work.

 

[vburel]

Voicemeter does give me a little more control and for now I am manually using it to turn off one card and then the other so user can compare, but, it's not really what I wanted which is one source in one ear and the other in the other ear at the same time.

On Voicemeeter, there is a PANORAMIC control to set a source on the left or on the right channel. This is possible on HARDWARE INPUT by the 3D Postion Panel (right click on INTELLIPAN to get other panels), and on VIRTUAL INPUT by the 5.1 PAN POT.