Windows 11 Headphones wont work after a random event, don't know what to do

[Hayden Hughes_265]

So long story short, as I was studying and playing youtube in the background, an extremely loud interference sound played through my headphones for about five seconds, like the video became blown out, then all audio dropped from my headphones. I figured it would be an easy sound driver fix, but I was sorely mistaken. I opened up my sound panel to find no audio would play specifically through the channel that I was having issues with, but would through other channels just fine (this will become relevant later, but yes it was showing as being plugged in, just no audio output). Because of this I

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