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I was going to see if anybody knows what germanium diodes are used in the silver pony ii? I made noob mistake and cracked one. I looked through the documentation and they are only listed as germanium diodes without any indication of which ones they actually are.

Pretty sure it's D9D in mine.

https://buildyourownclone.com/collections/diodes-1/products/d9d-diode

Mary

Any germanium clipping diode should work fine, despite the hype surrounding the mythical original. I believe the D9D, the 1N34A, and some others have been used at different times for these kits.

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^ This.

What's really important is the forward voltage threshold of the diode, which should run somewhere in the range of 0.2 - 0.35V for the vast majority of germanium diodes. This is what gives them the greater signal distortion and compression than silicon diodes (FVT = ~0.6V), but also an accompanying greater degree of volume loss since more signal is being clipped.

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