Managing Audio in Windows 10

I’ve been recording sound effects for the new book I’m writing (I love saying that). Today I discovered that just because everything in your signal chain is supposed to be stereo, it is not guaranteed that it actually is. I was recording sounds from my my Kaossilator and it didn’t sound right. Turns out that this was because I was only hearing the left hand channel, but played on both left and right. Much confusion. Turns out that for some reason the audio on that device had become mono. I had to use the old school Control Panel fix it. First I found the sound settings, then I chose my microphone input.

Then I went to the “Advanced” tab and made sure that the default format was stereo. And then it all worked.