Backwards EHX Jacks?

[PedalPedalPedals]

Is there a purpose to these? I have swapped input and output jacks on my green Muff and on my HOG2.

 

[MogwaiBoy]

Cue dirty innuendos about sticking your input into the output

TBH I have no idea why they did that. Makes no sense.

 

[woolyh]

I guess on fuzz pedals it's just a throwback to the times when people only used one fuzz box straight into the amp and there was no standard I/O orientation.

Dunno why they did it on the HOG 2 though, other than EHX just being EHX

 

[meterman]

you get a very slight sweetening of the midrange frequencies when your signal flow is in the same direction as the earth's rotation

 

[shoepedals]

Those are actually made by XEH. It's a company owned entirely by dyslexic people.

 

[ksandvik]

Things usually flow from left to right, unless we are dealing with pedals...