Can I get mirrored displays on my external monitors?

So I've got a small recording studio and I just got two monitors for free and want to get them working with my Macbook Pro. I know that if I want 3 independent screens, I'll have to get an external box like the Diamond BVU195. So in lieu of doing that, I thought I'd just get a VGA splitter (run into a VGA to mini adaptor into the macbook), so both of the monitors would display the same thing (There's two seats in the studio, that way both people could easily look at the same thing). Is this possible? I've been told it is, but I can't get it to work. When I plug both monitors into the splitter, the left one doesn't flinch, and the right one goes black and gives me an error "Out of range of signal. Cannot display this video mode. Change computer display input to 1600x1200 @ 60 Hz". Neither 1600x1200 nor 60 Hz are valid options for me to change to, and clicking the mirroring option in the display settings only makes the right screen and my macbook screen identical. I'd like the macbook screen independent of the two external screens. Any ideas?

No, no 15" MBP screen is capable of 1920 x 1080 or 1920 x 1200 resolution. To get higher resolution on your external monitor than on your built-in display, put the external monitor into Extended Desktop mode instead of Mirrored mode. Then you can set their resolutions separately and use each at its maximum resolution. To toggle between E.D. and Mirrored, press Command + F1.

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You can see in the capture below that it's working
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I've seen this post at least a hundred times. Has
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