 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I wanted to do a video today on the Euphoria UM2 audio interface by Beringer. Now, there is a... I did a video recently for this channel talking something related to connecting XLR mics into OBS on Ubuntu and it sounded fine to me. I did actually... I always play back these videos before I put them to YouTube and then I got a comment saying my left, my right ear, downvotes this video and I said, oh, what could this person mean? So I went in and listened and I heard, oh wow, there's only left channel audio. So I went looking into what could be the issue because I'm... all my microphones usually record just fine and lo and behold, there's a bunch of people saying, oh, what's the same problem? Here's one from Music Tribe. Euphoria UM2, only recording in one channel on Mac. So it says normally this would record as a stereo track with the mic on the left side and the guitar on the right. So this guy's got two things plugged in and there's another threat here but basically it's a feature and not a bug but that can be very confusing if you don't set up your recording gear correctly. So let me just kind of show you what I'm talking about here. Let us go and put the Beringer as the audio interface here. I'm going to go audio and it's already set here. So this is, I'm using Linux as my operating system along to Linux and this is how the Beringer audio interface appears. So in OBS, I have it set as my recording interface and I can see the levels look decent, right? I'm recording a screen, let's just say I go ahead and I start my recording, recording, recording and let's just stop it there. Now watch what's going to happen to this. If I go into my OBS folder here and I jump down to this and that's just saying I'm going to put this into Kaden Live. So we, this looks okay at first glance. What I'm going to do is show both channels separately and now you can see the problem. There is nothing on the right channel. Everything's been recorded on the left channel. So if you were to listen to this with headphones, it would sound ridiculous. You'd only be hearing audio from your left ear. So this is exactly the problem. If you happen to use Kaden Live, there's this toggle switch for separate channels. And again, if you don't do that, you'll think, oh, this audio looks totally fine. Everything is good. So no, if you're trying to diagnose a problem, use this feature and you can see each channel. So the way that you can avoid this is by going into the microphone and you want to go to settings, audio and change your channels from stereo over to mono. Okay. And says the program must be restarted for these settings to take effect. So I'm going to click apply. I'm going to click okay. It's going to do its restart thing. And I'm going to do another little test clip. Here's my second test clip. I'm speaking again. Same thing as before. And we're going to repeat the process. Me going into so I'm going to go into Kaden Live and going to get rid of this clip. And I can see that there's been another clip recorded. Same thing. At first glance, everything looks fine. But hopefully now shows show separate channels, separate channels. So okay, so it's actually everything's just being put onto one channel, but that's going to get us over our problem in any event. So that's how you do it in OBS. Just just to wrap this up, let me show you the same thing in audacity. Now, audacity is going to default to the lab mic I'm wearing to record this video. So you're actually going to see it recording normally with two channels. I'm using a USB lavalier microphone. So that's actually fine. But if I were to record from the interface, which is also connected, you'd see it looks like this, you'll see the channel on the left and nothing on the right. So how would I, how would you fix this? So what you want to do in, you can do it either there's a quick way in a short way, the quick way is go down from two stereo here to one mono recording. So now if I hit record, it's on one channel versus two. So that's basically all there is to it. So the Beringer UM2, you connect your microphone, you connect to OBS and you think, Hey, this should be recording my microphone. And then you play back and you see that it's only on one channel. So what you need to do, again, it's a feature and not a bug. So what you need to do is set up your program you're recording into, whether it's a DAW like audacity or OBS and tell it that you want to record in mono. And that way, everything is going to be written onto one channel. And when people listen back to your video on YouTube or your stream, they won't be saying, I can't hear anything out of the left side or sorry, I think it records onto the left if you use the first XLR input. So they'll be saying, I can't hear anything out of my right ear. So that's how you can resolve the issue. Obviously the fix is going to depend what program you're using. I hope that video is helpful. Thank you for watching. And if you want to get more videos from me, please subscribe to this YouTube channel.