Audacity 2.3.2 No stereo Windows 10

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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I have a Pinnacle USB Preamp that was part of package called “Clean.” The only codec that I can find shows up as Microphone (2-USB Codec). Previously I’m sure the codec had the numeral 3 in the name. Anyway the recordings are in mono despite being set to “2Channel Stereo.” Any suggestions please?

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Just to add: The Pinnacle preamp is USB

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Check the settings in the Windows Sound control panel. Windows will usually set devices that it “thinks” are USB microphones to “1 channel (mono)”.
Once you’ve told Windows that it’s a stereo device, that setting should stick, so you should not need to set it every time.

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Thanks for the reminder. I had set that previously but , like some other settings, Windows update must have reset it.
Thank you for quick reply.