Connection problems with Amplifier

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

i'm not sure, but why are you hooking your laptop to an amp ?my suggestions is if you dont mind, is to plugged the headphone out your laptop into one of the channels of your mixing board, myself i used an adaptor 1/8" to 1/4" i only used the left channel on my mackie board, that way you can control the eq's of that selected channel, ( actually laptop is just like a cd player, you hooked it up just like a regular cdg player on your mixing board ) simple way is : laptop headphone out to mixing board line in ( left chan. ) , mixing board main to amp, amp to speakers.

I've been thinking of doing that too. (hook up to left channel). Now does it matter which of the two (red or white) you place in the left channel. You see, my 1/8" stereo splits and comes to two 1/4"'ers. Can I just leave one dangling and plug in either of the two and assume that one plugged in carries the mono for both channels?