# 3D pan problem with Unreal 4

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958>\
**Category:** Unreal Engine\
**Created:** [June 18, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958 "2015-06-18T17:46:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tomavatars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/tomavatars/32/49_2.png) [@Tomavatars](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Tomavatars)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958/1 "2015-06-18T17:46:42Z")

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Hi there.

It might be a dumb question but I tried many solutions to avoid this with no result.

I’m working with Fmod Studio on a First person game.

I made many 3D events, and I’m encountering a panning problem :

- When I’m in front of a 3D sound, it generally plays on the left of my headphone, and not in front of me!

In unreal engine, the sounds are positioned on the objects.

In Fmod, I my sounds I want to play in 3D are originally in mono.  
I tried to play with envelopment and other features but the result is not satisfying.

Do you have an idea of why my 3D sounds behave like this?  
I my preferences, the format is 5.1, does it has something to do with this?

Many thanks in advance (the game will very soon be shipped!!! argh!!)

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**Author:** ![Tomavatars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/tomavatars/32/49_2.png) [@Tomavatars](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Tomavatars)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958/2 "2015-06-18T18:46:27Z")

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I found that it only occurs on the mac builds.

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**Author:** ![Tomavatars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/tomavatars/32/49_2.png) [@Tomavatars](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Tomavatars)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958/3 "2015-06-19T14:45:50Z")

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The builds for Mac are really bad. I don’t know if it come from Unreal or Fmod.

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**Author:** ![geoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a3d4f5/32.png) [@geoff](https://qa.fmod.com/u/geoff)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958/4 "2015-06-22T00:20:25Z")

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An older build had this bug but it should be fixed now. What version of the plugin are you using?

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**Author:** ![Tomavatars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/tomavatars/32/49_2.png) [@Tomavatars](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Tomavatars)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2015, 1:51pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/3d-pan-problem-with-unreal-4/11958/5 "2015-06-22T13:51:46Z")

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> An older build had this bug but it should be fixed now. What version of the plugin are you using?

Thank you for the answer.  
I used the 1.06.02 build. We are releasing the game tomorrow so I didn’t wanted to take a risk that a new version of Fmod could crash the game, but I will try after backing up. Thanks!