Music but no voices on headphones
I have a laptop with Windows 7 and I have headphones for a couple of months, and only recently they started to play only the music, while the voices are there, but just very faint. I tried to connect them to another computer (PC, windows XP) and they worked fine, which made me think the problem isn't with the headphones but with the laptop.
I've searched online and found a few solutions, none of the seemed to work. Such as: plugging in and out my jack until you can hear better, checking the headphones on other computers.
Other relevant info:
- The headphones come with a mic
- if I right click the sound icon -> sound devices. Then I dont see any 'headphones', not even if I tell it to show disabled devices. All I see is a 'speakers' icon, yet it's there even if the headphones are disconnected, and is always active.
So if anyone has any idea I'd appreciate it :) Thanks!
I figured it out! On my part the voices weren't working, but the background music played fine. While reading this blog, I played around with the balance volumes on speakers while letting a video play. The Balance Volumes that were centered were the only thing not making the voices work!! Thanks a lot.
This is what I did: 1. Go to sound icon and right click. 2. Click on playback devices. 3. Click on the speakers and then properties. 4.Go to the levels tab and click balance 5. Set the left (L) one on 80 and the right (R) one on 50
That's all I did and now my earphones are working fine on my laptop. Hope that helps. ~ (I have a windows 7 laptop)
I had the same problem as you describe and the solution was to set one of the Balance values to 0 (see other answer from terdon about how to access the balance setting), rather than setting them both to the middle.
Sounds like your trying to push 5.1 out of 2 speakers and only getting the L/R or the rears. YouTube sounds fine I'm guessing but those movies you downloaded have 5.1 sound? Make sure your not set to 5.1 in the speaker config: Sound/Speakers/configure: stereo
Sound card is burnt out.
Get a USB audio adapter.
It sounds like you have set the balance be only on one side. Go to the control panel => sound:
Click on "Properties" and then go to the "Levels" tab:
Click on "Balance" and set it to the middle:
