Nothing wrong with a warm adapter, but a hot and smelly adapter might not be good. Though the smell could just be from some paint on a cap or something. New tubes get that where the paint heats up and gives this odd scent.

Anyways, don’t leave your board on, switch off your power strip when you aren’t using it. For two reasons:

1. saves energy
2. if lightning were to strike your house with your pedals plugged in, it could be bad news for them!

Guitar Center is notoriously bad at having new stuff in stock

nice collection

well the octave effects I believe are optimized for Bass. So it will respond better on lower notes, but not as well on higher notes I believe.

I apologize, I forgot you said that.

Have you tried putting it in other places in your chain?

Maybe it doesn’t like what’s in front of it or vice versa.

Some dirts prefer to be out front interacting directly with your guitars pickups, and might not react quite the same behind a buffered bypass.

While at the same time, maybe the Micro POG doesn’t work well in the chain after a buffer (if it is after a buffer.)

Do you feel that it sucks tone when in your chain?

Or are you just worried that it might be without you noticing it?

I used to be worried about not having a 100% True Bypass board. I’ve since realized my clean tone is fine. And I no longer feel the need to true-bypass everything.

In fact, some pedals when true-bypassed can make matters worse, because of impedance issues.

Also their is nothing wrong with a good buffered bypass. Having a 100% true bypass board will make you suffer from tone loss more than one with a buffer or two in it because of impedance issues.

I think the best option would be to send it to EH for repairs. Email info@ehx.com to get a repair number. They’ll probably charge you about 25 bucks.

BTW Sonic Youth 37, I recognize you from the Sonic Youth board. Welcome!