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Hey I just built a Confidence boost and ended up loving it. So I took it to my friend and showed him the new effect pedal and what I was trying to do. He told me that he wanted one too for his smaller amp. So What my question is to everyone out there is. How can i Add a switch to turn the effect pedal on and off, If there is anyway to add more "crackle" to the sound and be able to control the level of it. Also last but not least of if anyone has any ideas on how to Put it in a Pop Can. I've been wanting to do this for a while and have came up with some ideas but wanted to see others opinion. I'm still a beginner so Please give details for a Big Dummy . If you can Help THANKS!!

I'm leaving work shortly so I only have a second, but in my opinion a coca-cola can would be a pretty unstable choice for an enclosure. There are lots of cool ideas for non-traditional pedal housings, but that one is gonna crush up pretty quick without major reinforcement.. sounds like trouble to me. Plus there's the whole ship-in-a-bottle issue, it ain't gonna be easy for a 2nd build..

The on-off switch is totally doable though.. if you want a status LED and true bypass, then a 3PDT toggle switch might be the way to go.

PS- you might enjoy this.. it's a Lovepedal Eternity clone in a Firewire Hard Drive case I made

Hey, Thanks for replying just wanted peoples idea on it. It Doesn't Bother Me either way just wanted to see for more experience people would say yay or nay to it.My main thing i really want to know is how do i put a on/off switch onto it and if it's possible to give it more crunch but yet have control on the level? THANKS again!

Ok My New question is how can i make my Confidence Boost more Crackle or give it that more distortion sounding and put a pot into it to adjust the level? Can you give me more Details on how to install certain components in and what kind of components??

If you can hang on for a bit, I'm going to be writing a tutorial on how to mount the circuit into an enclosure and how to do various mods to it, including making it into a overdrive/distortion pedal.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of using tins and other strange things as enclosures, but wouldn't bother with a pop-can. Maybe if you weren't putting a stomp switch on it...but even then you have the previously mentioned problem of getting all the components installed inside of it somehow.

This would be great