Chauffeur OD/Daily Driver Zener selection

It will "work" in the sense that it will be a functional pedal/circuit. A comparison would be the difference between 4148's and LEDs for the clippers. They will both "work" but will sound different. You could always socket the components and switch em out when you're ready down the road.
 
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Yes I figured it will work with 2.4V and 2.7V and I would have gone with 2.7V if it wasn't for the comment in @MichaelW 's report linked above, where 2.4V to 2.5 made an audible difference.
Si diodes like 4148's are roughly clipping at 0.6-0.7V and a red LED roughly at 1.7V which is quite a bigger jump and in other builds where I have this it is quite a difference in the sound.
So my question here is more along how the Zener setup differs sound wise between 2.5 and 2.7 in case the more dramatic difference is between 2.4 and 2.5 rather than higher, then 2.7 would be safe perhaps, but if 0,2 is double impact from 0.1 in noticed difference (although "on the other side" of 2.5) , then chasing 2.5s is probably still the option.
I cannot say how the circuit itself has impact on the diode choice compared with other circuits and clipping diode selection. I haven't used much of Zeners for clipping.
But if it is purely a matter of Vfs and nothing else, then I might not notice a difference between 2.5 and 2.7 anyway...
 
Matopotato said:
Are you asking me? (Or @MichaelW ?)
I haven't built it yet so I haven't done any measures. Question was if I should put in the effort to get the prescribed 2.5 Zeners or just use the ones I got in the kit, 2.7?
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Wait. I'm awake now. Zeners.
A 2.5 and 2.7 is going to have the same forward voltage. Only the reverse bias is different.
Won't matter/make a difference when they are in antiparallel pairs because the zener portion won't clip due to the Vf of the opposite diode being lower.
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