Audio issues?

No problems at all 👍

Loud and clear.

YouTube doesn't support 5.1 sound. You can verify your audio tracks by dropping them into something like Audacity. Anyone having issues should probably check if they have "virtual surround" turned on. There's new features in Windows 10 that may mean more people have fake surround sound turned on, too.

Adam Baxter

No problems here clive, audio is excellent (Laptop & bluetooth headphones)

No problems, sound is fine on my iPad Pro (speakers).

Robert K

No problems here.

No audio troubles here. Normal volume levels and clear sound.'

Guardian Lion

Sound is Fine :)

Sounds clear & legible on my laptop speakers in Chrome browser..

Gordo

I have surround sound, and your voice only comes through the center channel, which makes it even more bassy than it already is. But it has been that way for months

All good using both laptop speakers and NC headphones with Firefox v60 and Chrome v66 on Linux. Perhaps some people are using odd/old software that switches to a less bass-friendly codec?

Nope

No issues here...

No audio issues for me either.

No audio problems for me!

Jeff Groves

no issues.

not at all

No problems. Usually watching on my iPad with earphones.

No issues here.

Frank

Nope all good

no problems at all here...

No issues to be had here, other than perhaps audio being a tad quieter than other videos (but it's not hard to bump the volume up a little to compensate, as long as I remember to turn it back down afterward).

Karashata

Sound great on my TV with chromecast and an old 2.0 analogue old school stereo connected to the telly.

There was a problem with some Nvidia graphics cards outputting the audio via HDMI, their last driver update last week caused videos to tare and some audio problems mainly on Chrome, they issued a new driver yesterday, so try updating.

Never had any issue at all. I don't know how youtube works when uploading, but maybe stereo is not needed for voiceovers and electrical bangs? Go mono ! :)

L'Ancien

Yes I get you through the bass channel on occasion if YouTube is on my TV with the surround sound on. It's easily sorted by changing the surround mode from 5.1 to stereo

Rob Shaylor

Been all fine here on the sound front and I can easily tell when a sound channel drops out. I have even had my own car stereo speakers scare me when I had one failing and then all of a sudden kick back in while I am driving. I have been using a combo of surround sound headphones (logitech), bluetooth headphones (cheapie walmart brand) and sound coming from the sound in my tv (LG). Currently I have bigger fish to fry as my computer is currently been BSOD during youtube playback but during a very long gaming sessions my computer is fine and doesn't BSOD. Also I have been experiencing playback issues on my android devices with 1080p 60 FPS videos and yet I play back the video at 1080p 50 fps and I don't experience an issue. Something with YouTube and wreaking havoc with my devices.

You sound fine to me, but one or two videos have been left-channel only.

Aaron the Tinkerer

You come through my center channel but I think that's normal

I just tried listening to the 670V lamp video again on a Mac with headphones. I switched through every resolution in Safari (which I'm guessing is using the MP4 encoded variants) and then again in Chrome (I assume it's preferring WEBM) and they all sound great to me.

Angzarr

I listen through stereo headphones, and they sound fine to me. :)

All good on M$ Edge

Dane

Sounds great on my Mac with headphones.

Chromium on Linux.... all good here.

Sounds great! I checked the last video with headphones and the audio seems fairly balanced across the channels.

my speakers do that anyway i can't help you

Steven Cox

Sound great here in Idaho USA

yep sounds fine to me here in Tassie

The sound is fine, it's the accent :) Some of my coworkers can't understand the mild burr

Moz in Oz

PC here and it has been lower in volume than most but I don't think I've noticed any left/right channel issues. I'll play a few of the recent ones and do some analysis. Youtube is likely doing it in the encode.

BergRD

No issues here Roku or PC

Kevin Hardisty

No issues on Chrome on Mac, iPhone/iPad

No issues, iPhone, iPad, Mac.

I watch it on Chrome and have not noticed any problems with the audio.

It's a known firefox bug. If, and only if you have surround sound, and if the video is uploaded as mono, the sound incorrectly comes out of the left speaker. It's probably not worth splitting the audio and putting 5% down treble left and 5 % down bass right to differentiate them before uploading..

James Boatright

Tried "Biggest LED COB yet" and "670-Volt LED lamp!" with headphones on Win10PC Chrome - fine. Stereo.#

No problem here in the latest Firefox (Quantum) through an external sound card. Edit: Though it's been a bit 'tinny' recently, which I put down to maybe a different recording device.

Dan Craggs

I work with video professionally. I downloaded your last two videos and analyzed them, they are both in mono - but real mono, and not stereo with one silent channel. All computers (if correctly configured) should play the audio out of both speakers. Manx Meetup: Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp (default) Poundland solar: Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: opus, 48000 Hz, mono, fltp (default)

David Glover-Aoki

All fine here on headphones, using Firefox on Windows 10 PC.

All fine for me, just downloaded your last video and checked it, it has a normal stereo channel. Seems to be a bug in some clients?

Andreas

all good here

Richard Boyce

Have this issue when using headphones on my Samsung tablet, only get the left channel. Google Pixel phone and desktop is fine with the same USB-C headphones.

Jacob Peterson

No problems here with headphones on PC or mobile.

The sound was fine for me, iPad Pro, via Patreon app

Adam Pepper

No problems on my laptop, iPad or Droid phone...

Kinda a sly humble brag there right? :D "Oh it's probably just how my giant manly beard absorbs higher frequency sounds....... And I'm too powerful for your speakers to BOTH work at once...... The same thing happens whenever I set up stages for rock bands - bass players tend to disappear, and we always find them white as sheep hiding behind some boxes refusing to ever play again........"

Not noticed anything at all.

Pixscotland

I think it is a Firefox bug when using surround sound with a mono or stereo centered audio. It is supposed to deposit the audio on the center channel but puts it on the left channel (first channel in 5.1 setup). Your audio tracks are encoded as stereo in the following formats (using most recent clip as example): 249 webm audio only DASH audio 53k , opus @ 50k, 6.28MiB 250 webm audio only DASH audio 73k , opus @ 70k, 8.31MiB 171 webm audio only DASH audio 97k , vorbis@128k, 11.15MiB 140 m4a audio only DASH audio 99k , m4a_dash container, mp4a.40.2@128k, 12.14MiB 251 webm audio only DASH audio 110k , opus @160k, 12.64MiB Sounds fine to me in Chrome, Edge, IE (eek) with heaphones or speakers, on Chromecast also. Nothing to worry about, carry on.

Chris Parsons

I tend to watch on mobile devices I can't tell I'm sorry

Michael Thompson

Nothing wrong on a Moto Z-Force Droid, and Chromecast Ultra for my TV.

All OK on regular stereo work PC. Different on HDMI audio at home... Most of your videos start with your BBC/PBX voice, then as you start speaking more naturally I hear either my graphics card or monitor start to step the volume down a little. Only on 2 channel sound in either case, but always both channels active.

Andy Brown

Hi! Yep, I *did* have problems with your videos in the combination Safari on the Mac + my Audio interface + one of your videos - somehow that exact combination didn't work out. If you switched either of the items named to something else it had worked (either other soundcard or other browser or other video played). Now that I have another interface it all works fine. The error is very strange and I could never find out the real technical reason behind it.

Thomas Keppler

all good here both on android mobile device and desktop pc

Gladius Illuminatus

No problem on iPad Pro.

I've not had any audio issues with an iPhone or with a web browser

Ross Clark

"My testosterone breaks Youtube" that's a new one :)

Nicolas Raynaud

@SMLunchen what kind of 5.1 setup do you have? Is it on a PC or through a receiver? And what video?

Alex

No problems at all. Audio comes out in Stereo on my Android phone and tablet YouTube app and on YouTube on my desktop browser.

John Russell

Well yeah on 5.1 only left channel works, but on tablet/cellphone it works fine. - But this is since a long time. Not really new to my opinion. - Also I can see this behavior only in Firefox 28 (which I primary use for youtube, because HTML5 sectional buffering does not work too well for me.) In Chrome I do have only center channel. Edit: Firefox 60Beta behaves like FF 28

No issues for me.

I did have the problem of no audio at all. Following Clive's advice, I changed my sound card settings from '5.1 Surround' to 'Stereo'. This resolved the issue for me.

No issues for me

No issues for me

No issues

Nils Normann

I suppose I should probably mention that I use headphones and that I'm very sensitive to stereo separation.

Martel DuVigneaud

No issues here.

All good for me!

C. A. Patrick Voigt

I watch most every video and no problems here (Canada)

Warren Bailey

I just noticing that I am hearing birds in the back ground. more than your tummy.

Charles Bruckner

I'd just started watching the solar led lamp hack video on chromecast when this came in. A quick check indicates that both speakers are sounding about the same.

No problems here

Stuart

no problem here

None here, I normally wear head phones so I would notice if only one channel had audio.

Charles Bruckner

no issues here either, not on pc and not on my tv

No issues here: Chromecast with surround sound receiver, I hear you on all channels.

Alex

It's fine for me as well; going through a Chromecast to a receiver and stereo speakers + subwoofer. You aren't coming through the sub - but I have a compressor inline as well that limits the quiet bass (i.e. ambient hums and such)

Chris DePrisco

I've not had any issues, I watch on a TV hooked up to a soundbar with a separate subwoofer and you come out of both, not sure if it's left and right channels though as the speakers are too close on the soundbar

Not at all.

Stephen King

I haven't been getting any audio issues.

Martel DuVigneaud

No issues here (Chromecast user, stereo).

Michiel de Romijn

It all sounds fine to me and the missus.