eli5: How can music producers make a part of a song be heard on only one speaker?

Question

I’ve realised this with some songs eg Hate me by Ellie Goulding and juice wrld, when she says switch sides, the audio on one side seems to have less sound or something.

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Answer 1

It’s a feature called panning on music editing software. You can dictate where certain channels of music are in the ‘room’. It’s been around for decades now but is great to use. You’d artificially position where a band is to appear like they are playing from different positions. If you go 100% to the left or right, you get the sound only coming from one speaker.

Hope this makes sense