headphone panning not working

[trashlondonbeats]

so i was recently working on a track and wanted to pan the hi-hats but when i did i noticed it was being panned. the volume was lowered but it was still playing through both headphone drivers at equal volume even if i did a solo to one side. i do not believe it to be a problem with the headphones because panning works fine on spotify/etc. i noticed that in the surround tab in the preferences menu there was nothing being routed to the outputs for the left and right channels but i tested it and nothing seemed to change although i got 2 options "amp 1" and "amp 2" (amp being the full name of my amp) i just put all of them to one or the other but nothing changed

i use beyerdynamic dt990s and a fio k5 pro dac/amp

[Starship Krupa]

25 minutes ago, trashlondonbeats said:

i was recently working on a track and wanted to pan the hi-hats but when i did i noticed it was being panned. the volume was lowered but it was still playing through both headphone drivers at equal volume even if i did a solo to one side.

This is definitely not how it's supposed to work. The Surround preferences don't mean anything here. You have left and right, and that's it.

What's better to check is Audio/Devices/Driver Settings/Playback and Recording.

Do you see the appropriate devices? Do you have it set to WASAPI (assuming that your DAC doesn't have its own ASIO driver)?

What are you showing in your Hardware Outputs strips?

[Terry Kelley]

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Edited December 20, 2022 by Terry Kelley

[trashlondonbeats]

ok so i managed to narrow it down to something wrong with my amp. i tested it with headphones and it was find. i tried all the troubleshooting  things and nothing helped. dont know if its important but windows recognized my amp as speakers so maybe thats an issue?

[trashlondonbeats]

i also wanna add that when i cut one channels audio (ex. right) it still plays in that ear, just makes it quieter (i did this in windows settings)

Edited December 22, 2022 by trashlondonbeats