Airpods pro become mono when opening garageband

I recently bought the new macbook pro 14'' and was excited to play with the 'full version' of GarageBand. I connected my AirPods pro (I have owned them for like 2 years) to my macbook and opened up garageBand and everything was perfectly fine, until a few days after.

I opened up Garageband again and to my surprise, everything that came out of the AirPods was mono. I tried to change things in the preferences (GarageBand) but nothing worked. My entire macbook also becomes mono, so when I have GarageBand open, my Spotify and youtube just becomes mono until I quit garageband.

I have searched on the internet and have found that none to nobody are experiencing these issues. The only thing I have found was this reddit post but that wasn't much help.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/airpods/comments/r44w8m/airpods_pro_mono_only_in_garageband/

I really want to know how to fix this cause I now have to grab my Bose headphones every time and with that it does work stereo. Is this a garageBand issue? An AirPods issue or just the operating system?

Amresh