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Everybody knows the digital gizmos sure need their specific power adaptor(s).
But then again analog pedals tend to alter their behavior depending on with which type of power they are feeded (please try to translate this to English if you get it, joe).

Delay and modulation FX units run at their best on wall socket power transformers/alkaline batteries. Once the batteries drain, the performance will just fail, period.

The wah, fuzz, distortion et al. analogue devices, however seem to alter their behavior during battery life. And some in very undiscribale ways.
I always try to save the 9V batteries that cease to operate the devices once intended.

Alkaline type (Duracell & so on) will get recycled, but the carbon-zinc, zinc-chloride et al. variants might get a second life (if a very short one) in my fuzz boxes and wah pedals.

In studio, many times, a very special effect may be sought after. A handful of almost died batteries might make their encore here. May they ruin the guitar/bass signal enough, but not with the buzz like many variable wall warts like Danelectrode that tend to leake AC electricity Hz-noise to signal chain if amp is driven hard. Some devices like early seventies Colorsound boxes just sound too dissimilar running on a battery or wall power.

Here, a Pignose amp is running on Pirkka batteries (last variant of Chinese White Elephant type in available in Finland) at the very end of their lifespan. You can hear the pick, and at towards the end, even the Bigsby tension spring!
No wall wart power source could heve ever delivered this aural excitement, I think.

I have no idea how the rechargable (NiCc, NiMh, Li-ion) types perform, but for enviromental issues I should at least really go and try them...
Now, please tell us about how the pedals should be powered!