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There is essentially 3 parts to the sound journey and what gets altered where will depend on what kind of setup you have. I can only talk about the laptop system, having never actually operated a disc system, I can't compare however I can'tr imagine it would be that much different.
To start with, you have an audio lead feeding the signal from the laptop into the mixer via a dedicated channel. This allows you to alter the parameters of that signal (EQ/volume) without altering the parameters of your other inputs (mics for instance). This signal input will usually be a stereo input, so you'll have left and right going into the signal. It's this feature that allows you to (via the mixer) alter the left and right output. Somewhere on the mixer, you will then have an output port(s) which is what you connect your speakers to. This will, 99.99% of the time be a L/R output combination, so you'll have two of them. This port will feed the signal for everything that is going on signal wise on your mixer. So, when everything is running under a standard set-up, you have a left hand channel being produced by the karaoke file on the laptop, transmitted through the LH wire of the audio lead, fed into the mixer channel via the LH input port and then fed out of the mixer via the LH output port and then sent to the LH speaker. Same obviously occurs with the right.
For a laptop set-up, a multiplex song alters it's channel pan via the software player on the laptop. In other words, the file sends only the right/left channel into the mixer; the mixer does not come into play. However, I'd imagine that if you panned your mixer channel in the other direction you would get no signal at all, much like how polarisation works.
If you were using a track that had the multiplex feature (it's not on every song by default and the vast majority out there I imagine are not multiplex), then it's an all or nothing feature, meaning you can't introduce a little bit of vocal guide.
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