Switching positive ground to negative

[mnordbye]

Simply put, is there a simple way? I thought of just switching the ground and live wires on the DC jack (for example in a pnp Fuzz face), but is it really that simple?

Anyway, other suggestions? The goal is to be able to use only one kind of adapter for my pedals.

Magnus Nordbye

[GREEN FUZ]

You also need to reverse any polarized components.

[tranceracer]

My old RAT and an old Crybaby has those 1/8th earphone DC jacks so I use 9V battery snaps and soldered a standard DC jack and was able to use a standard DC wall wart.

I think this should also work for a reverse polarity DC jack effect.

[R.G.]

Here we go again. You're not the first person to think of this; many have tried it. It has worked OK for some of them. For others, it produced hum and/or oscillation that could only be excised by putting the positive ground back.

Do a search on "reversed ground".

It is far, far simpler to build or buy another wall-wart adapter for the positive ground pedals.

My advice is don't do that unless you're prepared to reverse it if you're not one of the lucky ones.