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Subject: MOTM-940: Ignorant About Signal Grounding

From: "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@...>
Date: 2002-11-25

MOTM-940: Ignorant About Signal Grounding

Oh, man... please don't tell me I've blacked out again; is it ∗really∗ 2003 already... http://www.synthtech.com/news.html


I've got a dumb question about the 940 Patch Panel. This is used to interface the MOTM with a banana-jack machine, such as a Serge.

Now... _how does it do that?_ Naïve question, but seriously, how does the grounding work? I see that for every ¼" jack, there's a "hot" and ground banana, and the grounds are tied together, but where do they "go" on the Serge? Do you alligator clip a single ground line from the '940 to the front panels of the Serge or something?

It's funny that I've never thought about this before. I got mine for doing DIY stuff... you know, converting the ¼" TO TEST LEADS. But how do you use it in the "real world."? In fact, assuming you had a Serge, Modcan, or whatever, how do you actually get audio out of those things and into a mixing board?