Connection problems with Amplifier

[billyo]

Originally Posted by killertofu2

Recently, I purchased a laptop from MTU made specifically for playing Karaoke Shows: A Durabook, the stats of which I'll look up if needed.

I've been having issues with it, in regards to getting it to support dual screens, but it finally decided to let me do that, so that's some progress in that department. I'm able to get picture out to the TV I'm using for the singers to view.

I've been running a Karaoke business for fourteen, fifteen years in my area, and am getting tired of toting the discs around, which's why I've decided to try going with this. As such, I have all of my old Karaoke equipment and generally run the player through the amp to get to the speakers, and to the TVs.

However, when I try to do that with my laptop, using the MTU laptop and Hoster software, it doesn't end with satisfying results. The only way I've been able to get picture is if I run directly from the laptop, and with the speakers I'm using, running the audio directly from the laptop wouldn't give enough juice, so the amplifier is entirely necessary.

I've been unable to find a thread in regards to this subject, so has anyone met with success in running through an amplifier to get the sound and/or video out? If so, how did you do it? Because it's becoming rather frustrating.

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.