Afterlife: Schottky in place of Germanium?

[Now they tell me]

One would think that if germanium is good for the rectifier diodes, Schottky would be great.

Does anyone have any experience along these lines?

Thank you kindly.

[midwayfair]

They'll work the same or better.

There's no reason to use germanium and I've built it 4 times with 1N60Ps instead. I don't even think there's enough impedance involved to even consider that the higher capacitance of a germanium diode or its leakage might contribute to the attack times.

The photocell you pick will absolutely dominate any other decision you can make when building this.

[Betty Wont]

What about bat48? I have a bunch and they dont show up in many projects.