SergeModular

hello serge users,

Have any of you guys added a black ground banana plug to your gear
that you use with your serge systems? I have a mooger fooger CP-251
and a roland 104 sequencer, that I'm thinking about adding plugs to...
Anybody have advice about where to connect? If its a wall wart type
(the mooger is this kind) do you just use the negative as ground? On
the sequencer, will the black wire from the output jacks be the ground?

Thanks in advance for your input!

later,
ben
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> Have any of you guys added a black ground banana plug to your gear
> that you use with your serge systems? I have a mooger fooger CP-251
> and a roland 104 sequencer, that I'm thinking about adding plugs to...
> Anybody have advice about where to connect? If its a wall wart type
> (the mooger is this kind) do you just use the negative as ground? On
> the sequencer, will the black wire from the output jacks be the
> ground?

The sleeve should go to the ground. (so the tip would be the banana
you patch with).

You probably can get away without common grounding for CV in most
cases (a pun?).

Never mess with your power supply if you don't know what you are
doing. Negative and ground are not the same thing at all.

If you are hearing hum or noise in your audio then start
troubleshooting at that point. I would think that unless there is
something weird going on then the sleeve on an incoming external
signal should have a ground referenced to that unit and it ought to
be usable, though I can't say I've had to test that approach since I
have a custom Adapters module on my panel.


You want to be a bit careful with old Roland gates as they are a
little hotter than modern ones (around +13v). I don't know how well
protected different Serges are.

As for Moogerfoogers, you want to check the manual. I first tried to
use the LP Filter one with my modular and it didn't work properly. I
then discovered some of the jacks are TRS --presumably for their
volume style foot pedals. I keep some TRS phono to tip and ring jack
adapters around for these kinds of situations, so I just plug a cable
into the jack I want to connect to, generally it's the tip.


Nick