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It's cool that more and more peds with LED clippers are popping up.
If you want a greater range before the signal gets clipped, or if you despise heavy compression when the signal gets clipped, LED's might be right down your alley.
At the very least, it's a cheap and easily reversed change to most pedals that use diodes for clipping.
Another pedal that's been out for a decade now that uses LED's is the Turbo Tubescreamer, or TS9DX. It looks just like a TS-9, but has 4 knobs. The extra knob gives you access to four "modes" - TS9, +, Hot, and Turbo. The Hot Mode uses LED's. The first two use standard clipping diode setups, and the Turbo mode uses no clipping diodes at all. If you want a quick and dirty idea of what different diodes sound like, this pedal is typically pretty easy to track down and audition.
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